The women busily put variously sized atemoyas onto a mechanical grading device, which weighs the fruit employing the principle of the balance-beam scale. Using a movable brass weight and the reaction of the steelyard beam, fruit of similar weight falls off into side baskets and is very quickly graded into X-large, special, # 1, and # 2.
只見農婦們將大小不一的鳳梨釋迦放置在機械分級機的果杯上，這個重量式蔬果分級機是利用天平槓桿原理，依照機動調整的法碼及天平秤差的感應，重量近似的果實會滑落到一旁的籃框裡，很快分出特大、特、1、2 等四級。