Foods and beverages: apparatus – Means to treat food – Subdividing into plural products
Patent
1997-03-22
1998-09-15
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Means to treat food
Subdividing into plural products
99593, 99594, 99595, 99596, A23N 700
Patent
active
058064141
ABSTRACT:
A processing apparatus and method for removing rind from a spheroidal food article, such as a melon is provided. The apparatus includes infeed and outfeed componentry for conveying melons to be processed into and out of the apparatus, providing an apparatus well suited for use in an automated environment. The infeed componentry includes a positioning device for positioning a melon to be processed between revolving mandrels, for achieving a desired orientation of the melon relative to the mandrels. The mandrels retain the melon on its axis and revolve the melon on its equator. Knife members are positioned on either side of the melon and aligned with the equator thereof when the melon is in an initial position. The knife members have detachable blades to accommodate rinds of different thicknesses, so that the blades extend through the rind, without extending into the flesh. Rollers are secured to the knife members to control the cutting depth of the blades and to enhance the ease with which the rind is cut. As the melon is rotated from the initial positron toward a completed position, the knifes initially remove rind from its equator, then simultaneously toward each pole, for removing substantially the entire rind from the melon. The cutting pattern provided by the invention obviates the need for excessive rotation of the melon, providing a processing apparatus having enhanced processing speeds. Rind remaining on the poles is sliced off without removing excessive flesh from the melon.
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Davidson Erick A.
Groppe Rudi
Heinzen Alan
Shimmel Charles
Aiello Jeffrey P.
Heinzen Manufacturing, Inc.
Simone Timothy F.
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