Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Processes – Separating a starting material into plural different...
Patent
1997-07-08
1998-05-12
Simone, Timothy F.
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Processes
Separating a starting material into plural different...
99546, 99635, 99637, 99640, 99642, 99643, 426482, 426484, A23N 700, A23N 1500, A23N 1502
Patent
active
057501718
ABSTRACT:
A finish topper for bulb crops having a plurality of longitudinal, parallel, generally horizontal, spaced-apart moving belts for conveying bulbs through the apparatus. Adjacent belts are driven at different linear speeds. In a preferred embodiment, alternate belts are replaced by stationary rails to maximize the speed differential. Below and adjustably close to the belts is a driven rotating blade for cutting the bulb stems and also exerting a downwards draft of air through the belts. Onions introduced onto the belts are conveyed through the apparatus by the belts, and the differential in speed between the moving belts and stationary rails causes the bulbs to rotate and gyrate randomly as they are being conveyed. Because the belts are spaced apart, the bulbs assume momentarily an attitude to permit the uncut stems of bulbs to extend downwardly between the belts. The bulbs are retained on their shoulders on the belts in inverted posture. Each bulb, in its random rotational movements, assumes this attitude at least once, at which time the stem is immediately sheared to the proper residual length by the rotating blade. When the belts are covered by a flexible blanket the random gyrations of the onions is increased. Since each onion is restrained by its shoulders against the belts, the residual stem of every onion is equal in length as measured from the onion shoulder.
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Brown R. C.
Lee Shuknecht & Sons, Inc.
Lukacher M.
Simone Timothy F.
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