Fruit peeling apparatus

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1974-11-22

1976-09-28

Wilhite, Billy J.

Foods and beverages: apparatus

Means to treat food

Automatic control or time means

99489, 99589, 99593, 99595, A23N 700

Patent

active

039824829

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for automatically peeling fruit whereby a cutter blade is moved toward and away from the fruit as a function of the sensed impedance between the cutter blade and ground through the fruit so that substantially all of the peel is removed. In the preferred embodiment, a horizontal assembly presents a fruit to each of a plurality of fruit holders mounted on a vertical assembly so that each one of the presented fruit is impaled on a different spike of the vertical assembly. A plurality of cutter assemblies each mounting a cutter blade are moved toward and away from the fruit as it is rotated and moved upward to remove the peel. A control circuit includes a counter incremented by pulses from Hall Effect Switches which are energized by magnets mounted on the vertical and horizontal assemblies and controls movement of the assemblies to carry out a predetermined cycle.

REFERENCES:
patent: 260236 (1882-06-01), Rakes
patent: 2699191 (1955-01-01), DeBack et al.
patent: 3211201 (1965-10-01), Creed
patent: 3237664 (1966-03-01), Macy et al.
patent: 3753397 (1973-08-01), Shrewsbury et al.

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