Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Processes – Separating a starting material into plural different...
Patent
1997-01-17
1998-07-14
Simone, Timothy F.
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Processes
Separating a starting material into plural different...
99516, 99623, 99626, 99629, 426481, A23N 700, A23N 702
Patent
active
057800880
ABSTRACT:
A machine for peeling and cleaning fruits and vegetables using a plurality of rotating abrasive rollers which are each driven by an electric motor. The machine has a frame with a pair of end plates that rotatively carry the rollers. Each motor is carried by an end plate and coupled to a roller solely to drive only that roller. In one preferred embodiment, the motor is coupled to a gear reducer that preferably is a cycloidal gear reducer having an output shaft coupled to one end of a roller and which has an output shaft axis of rotation generally coaxial with the axis of rotation of the roller. In another preferred embodiment, the motor can be directly coupled to the roller with its output shaft axis of rotation generally coaxial with the roller axis of rotation. To control operation and speed of the abrasive rollers, the motors are controlled by a motor controller that preferably is a variable frequency electric motor drive. Where the machine uses an auger to urge food product through the machine, the auger can be driven by an electric motor whose operation and speed preferably is controlled by a variable frequency electric motor drive. Where the machine is a rotating cage machine, the cage can be driven by an electric motor whose operation and speed preferably is controlled by a variable frequency electric motor drive. Each motor preferably is a three phase alternating current electric motor.
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Color photocopies of photographs 1-4 of Lyco stationary U-bed peeling and cleaning machine having its abrasive rollers/brushes driven by electric motors coupled by belts to the rollers/brushes, undated.
Color photocopies of photographs 10-12 of Lyco stationary U-bed peeling and cleaning machine having its abrasive rollers/brushes driven by hydraulic motors directly coupled to each roller/brush, undated.
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Hawkeye Food Machinery, Inc., Model #2003 Peeler/Washer Service Manual (15 H.P.), 26 pages, undated.
Sumitomo Machinery Corp. of America "SM-Cyclo Speed Reducers & Gear Motors" catalog No. 04.301.50.007; pp. 1-5, 116, and 152, undated.
Malchow Steven B.
Zittel David R.
Simone Timothy F.
Zittel David R.
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