Foods and beverages: apparatus – Means to treat food – Subdividing into plural products
Patent
1993-01-08
1993-09-07
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Means to treat food
Subdividing into plural products
83402, 83932, 99537, 99543, 99545, 99552, A23L 1212, A23N 1500, A23P 100, A47J 1700
Patent
active
052419029
ABSTRACT:
The apparatus of the present invention includes a plurality of blades, an inner guide having a longitudinal axis and an outer surface, an outer guide having a longitudinal axis and inner and outer surfaces, and a plurality of blade drive means for rotating each of the blades to cut the fruit into the desired shape. Both the inner and outer guides have a plurality of longitudinally extending apertures equal to the number of blades. The apertures are disposed in each guide's outer surface and each aperture in a guide's surface is circumferentially spaced from each other aperture in that guide surface. The apertures in the outer guide are also arranged such that they are aligned with the inner guide apertures. The inner guide is spaced from the outer guide inner surface to form a longitudinally extending annular aperture. The blades are disposed such that a portion of each blade extends through each outer guide aperture and into the annular aperture. The inner guide outer surface and the outer guide inner surface cooperate to guide both whole and broken fruit to the rotating blade portions in the annular aperture so the fruit can be cut into the desired shape. The outer guide also forms a barrier between the annular aperture and the blade drive means to avoid contamination of the fruit.
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