Foods and beverages: apparatus – Means to treat food – Subdividing into plural products
Patent
1991-05-08
1992-04-21
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Means to treat food
Subdividing into plural products
99545, 99546, 99588, 99592, A23N 700, A23N 702
Patent
active
051057344
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a peeler and relates particularly, but not exclusively, to a peeler for citrus fruit such as oranges.
DESCRIPTION OF PRIOR ART
Hitherto citrus fruits such as oranges have been peeled in commercial quantities either manually or by a rotating disc cutter which described a helix cut to the skin so a skin removing member can pass under the skin and remove the skin as an elongate spiral. The above are laborious or time consuming. Both are expensive.
OBJECT AND STATEMENT OF THE INVENTION
The present invention attempts to overcome the aforementioned problems.
The invention may be said to reside in a peeler comprising a cutting member, a movable member arranged for relative movement into said cutting member and a peel removing member, wherein said cutting member is adapted to cut into an article to be peeled so that at least a portion of said article is received within said cutting member with the peel surrounding the cutting member, said peel removing member is adapted to move relative to said cutting member to push the peel away from the cutting member and said movable member being movable relative to said cutting member into said cutting member so that said portion of the article can be pushed out of said cutting member.
Preferably said cutting member comprises a cylinder and said movable member comprises a plunger arranged within a top portion of said cylinder and movable relative to said cylinder so as to push said portion of the article out of said cylinder after it is cut.
Preferably said peel removing member comprises a ring member which surrounds the cutting cylinder and is movable relative to the cutting cylinder so as to push the peel away from the cutting cylinder.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
Examples of preferred embodiments of the invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which: FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a first embodiment of a peeler embodying the invention;
FIG. 2 is a view of the peeler of FIG. 1 in a second position;
FIG. 3 is a view of the peeler of FIG. 1 in a third position;
FIG. 4 is a view of the peeler of FIG. 1 in a fourth position;
FIGS. 5 to 8 are cross-sectional views of the peeler which correspond to FIGS. 1 to 4 respectively;
FIG. 9 is an isometric view of a second embodiment of a peeler embodying the invention;
FIG. 10 is a side elevational view of the peeler shown in FIG. 9;
FIG. 11 is an end elevation of the peeler shown in FIG. 9; and,
FIG. 12 is a plan view of the peeler shown in FIG. 9.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
With reference to FIGS. 1 to 8 of the drawings, the peeler 10 comprises a cylindrical cutting member 12, a peel removing member 14 which comprises a ring 16 which surrounds the cutting cylinder 12 and a pair of upright members 18 connected to the ring 16 for moving said ring 16 relative to said cylinder 12.
In alternative embodiments it would be possible for the peel removing member 14 to comprise a cylinder which is larger than the cylinder 12 and which surrounds the cylinder 12 instead of merely comprising a ring 16 with uprights 18.
A plunger 20 is arranged within the top portion of the cutting cylinder 12 and has a stem 22 for moving said plunger 20 within the cylinder 12.
Before an article, such as an orange 50, is peeled it is preferred in this embodiment that the top and bottom of the orange be sliced from the orange as is shown in FIGS. 1 and 5 by suitable peel removing means. In order to peel the orange the entire assembly shown in FIGS. 1 and 5 is moved relative to the orange so that the cutting cylinder 12 cuts into the orange so that the major portion of the orange is contained within the cutting cylinder 12. The skin and possibly some of the outermost portion of the orange adjacent the peel is therefore left outside the cutting cylinder 12 and surrounds the cutting cylinder 12 as is shown in FIGS. 2 and 6.
In order to remove the peel 12, the peel remover 14 is actuated, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 7, so that the ring 16 moves down
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Foxcroft Geoffrey
Mansfield Cliff R.
Foxcroft Geoffrey
Simone Timothy F.
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