Foods and beverages: apparatus – Means to treat food – Subdividing into plural products
Patent
1983-04-29
1984-12-04
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Means to treat food
Subdividing into plural products
99557, 99561, 99565, 426485, A23N 400, A23N 408
Patent
active
044857322
ABSTRACT:
A machine for the pitting of drupaceous fruits, e.g. prunes, has an endless chain of articulated conveyor plates each provided with several vertical cylindrical bores whose flared mouths face upward on the upper run of the chain where each plate passes successively, in steps, through a loading station, a pitting station and an ejection station. The loading station comprises a hopper filling each bore of an underlying conveyor plate with a fruit to be pitted; in the pitting and ejecting stations, the conveyor plates are overhung by a vertically reciprocable carrier supporting a series of pushers and an adjoining series of plungers. In the pitting station the conveyor plates are underlain by a base plate having perforations aligned with their bores, each perforation being provided with an elastic insert which closes around a pit being dislodged by a pusher in order to strip adhering pulp therefrom. Upon the ejection of a pitted fruit from a bore, the bore wall is cleaned by a wiper disk mounted on the plunger stem or by a brush suspended from the reciprocable carrier at a location downstream of the ejection station.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1024625 (1912-04-01), Foote
patent: 3731615 (1973-05-01), Margaroli et al.
patent: 4313373 (1982-02-01), Fehlmann
Dubno Herbert
Mecanique Generale J. Deville & Cie Societe Anonyme
Ross Karl F.
Simone Timothy F.
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