Foods and beverages: apparatus – Means to treat food – Subdividing into plural products
Patent
1980-04-04
1982-03-30
Coe, Philip R.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Means to treat food
Subdividing into plural products
83864, 83873, 83885, 99579, 99589, 99591, A23N 500
Patent
active
043218652
ABSTRACT:
In treating nuts which are supplied by way of transport means and which are held between two conveyor belts, a groove of uniform depth is milled into the shell of the nut by means of overlapping milling discs, which groove permits the shell of the nut to be broken open by a subsequent splitting means.
On the transport means, the nuts are separated and aligned by vibration and the configuration of the guide tracks. A spiral conveyor with a baffle is also provided for this purpose.
The conveyor belts are adapted to the different thicknesses of the nuts by means of vertically adjustable rollers.
The depth of the groove which is less than the thickness of the shell of the nut is restricted by toothed rings on the milling discs and annular shoulders which are arranged at a displaced position relative thereto radially with respect to the axis of rotation. The milling discs themselves are arranged on pivotal arms or plunger members, wherein the axes of rotation thereof are held by energy storage means at a spacing from each other which is less than double the radius of the two milling discs.
The splitting means comprises movable knives with knife blades which increase in thickness and over which the nuts are pushed, being guided in the grooves.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2344711 (1944-03-01), McNutt et al.
patent: 3143201 (1964-08-01), Wyle et al.
patent: 3147841 (1964-09-01), Austin
Coe Philip R.
Simone Timothy F.
Widmer & Ernst AG
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