This paper is a continued study of previous one, Last paper has reported on the planning of an orange packing house, most advanced situation of facilities in japanese fruit-growing districts, In this paper, deal with an apple packing-house, secondary quantity of yield next to orange. In this paper, we consider the result of investigation of its acutual state and some concrete matter found inside it through the information from the nation-wide questionaire and actual survey of several typical packing houses. The approach of this study is used similar method of the previous paper, but concentrate on the difference between the orange packing house. In case of the apple packing house, the capacity is small and the automation is behind from the orange packing house, but the architecural planning is complicated by many reason, Great number of apple's varieties and the existence of storing facilities affect remarkably in operating process, sorting capacity, number of workers. The problem of cargo-booking, affect the shape and the scale of facility, is not to refered in this paper, It will be reported at a later date.
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