Product Description

Key’s Automatic Defect Removal (ADR®) systems process over 95 percent of the world\'s frozen potato strips. The ADR® 4 combines high-resolution Vis/IR cameras, our patented belt conveyor, our patented rotary cutter, and our Iso-Flo® high-speed vibratory conveyors to align, singulate, scan, and trim potato strips with unparalleled speed and precision. This system eliminates manual trimming and inspection, and improves cutting accuracy and good-product recovery.

Features and Benefits

Benefits

• Enhanced defect detection for peel-on products
• Flexibility for varied product specifications
• Better recovery of good product
• Higher capacity
• Optimal performance for a variety of products
• Quick, easy changeover from one product to another
• Economical—simple, fast sanitation and maintenance

Image Sensor

• Detects both visible and infrared light—identifies peel, good flesh, and defects
• For peel-on product, recognizes peel as good product
• For peeled product, recognizes peel as defect

Illumination

• All solid-state
• No calibration
• No bulbs

“SmartCutting”

• Selectively cuts for length, and at the same time removes defects, at lower capacities
• Ignore internal minor defects if cutting would create shorts
• Halves over-long fries to control size reduction and grade
• Reduces downstream breakage of over length fries
• Allows for product pre-grading to blend with higher percentages of short cuts

Common Product Applications

• Potato strips