Foods and beverages: apparatus – Means to treat food – Subdividing into plural products
Patent
1988-01-13
1989-10-31
Hornsby, Harvey C.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Means to treat food
Subdividing into plural products
99543, 99557, 99559, 99565, 834116, A23N 412
Patent
active
048769541
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for pitting olives and then slicing the pitted olives. In a preferred embodiment, each olive is carried in a cup positioned between a coring knife and a pitting knife in a manner so that the longitudinal axes of the cup and the knives coincide. As the cup and knives rotate around a drive shaft along parallel circular paths, a system of cams extends and retracts the knives relative to the cup, in order to pit the olive. After the pitting operation, the cup (containing a pitted olive) continues to rotate along its circular path past a set of slicing knives. The slicing knives are oriented substantially parallel to the plane of the cup's circular path, so that the slicing knives act as wedges to sever the olive cleanly into slices as the cup translates past the slicing knives. In the inventive method and apparatus, both the pitting and slicing operations are performed on each olive while the olive is held in a known orientation. The known orientation is not changed between the two operations, in order to enhance the uniformity of the resulting olive slices. The invention produces clean slices and reduces the amount of olive material destroyed during the slicing operation.
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Ashlock Company
Equitz Alfred A.
Hornsby Harvey C.
Machuga Joseph S.
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