Pitting device for drupaceous fruit

Details Pitting device for drupaceous fruit Pitting device for drupaceous fruit

1976-08-30

1978-08-01

Hornsby, Harvey C.

Foods and beverages: apparatus

Means to treat food

Subdividing into plural products

99561, 198626, A23N 406, A23N 304, A47J 2300

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041036077

ABSTRACT:
An inner portion of a conveyor comprising a plurality of pivotably joined crossbars having an open bottom receiving cup to hold a piece of drupaceous fruit is driven at a synchronized speed below a fruit feeder device. After the feeder device deposits a piece of fruit in each cup, the inner conveyor portion travels a short distance where it is joined by an outer portion of the conveyor comprising a like plurality of pivotably joined crossbars having an inverted covering cup with a perforated diaphragm top. The conveyor portions mate to partially enclose the piece of fruit within the cups. The fruit is conveyed through a pitting station where a star-shaped pitting tool is driven at high speed through the opening in the bottom of the receiving cup, into the piece of fruit to contact a pit of the fruit and push the pit upward through the perforation of the diaphragm in the covering cup. As the tool is withdrawn from the fruit, the fruit and its now separated pit are conveyed separately for further processing.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1822381 (1931-09-01), Smith
patent: 3454064 (1969-07-01), Weber
patent: 3869038 (1975-03-01), Piper

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