Class 426/485 - Pit

Subclass of Class 426 - Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Definition: Processes wherein a pit from a drupaceous fruit is removed.
No. of patents: 28
Last issue date: 11/29/2005

Number	Title	Issue Date
6969535	Method for pitting and slicing olives with spring-loaded, adjustable slicing knife assembly A method and apparatus for pitting olives (or other fruit) and slicing the pitted fruit. In preferred embodiments, a pitting knife and a coring knife horizontally translate each olive to be pitted while the pitting knife, coring knife, and olive revolve together abo...	11/29/2005
6861083	Process and apparatus for the integral utilization of oil-producing drupes, particularly olives, and specific products obtained A process and an apparatus for the processing of oil-producing drupes, notably olives, is described comprising at least one device (20, 24) for the processing of whole drupes which effects a physical destructuring with incipient detachment of the drupe pulp f...	03/01/2005
6824811	Concentrate of triterpenes The invention concerns concentrates of ursolic acid or its salts and oleanoic acid, wherein (i) ursolic acid and oleanoic acid or its salts are present in an total amount for the two of more than 22 wt %, preferably 30 to 65 wt %	11/30/2004
6410069	Method for decontaminating a drupe A drupe which is infested with a larva of a moth or larvae of other insects, and is contaminated with related excretions, referred to as a "frass", in a central zone within the drupe, is cleansed with a longitudinally bored pitting knife mounted in the pi...	06/25/2002
6338865	Process for preparing food products fortified with oleanolic acid Olive oil is fortified with oleanolic acid by including olive leaves in the malaxation mash of conventional olive oil pressing in an amount of 5-50 wt. %, based on the weight of the malaxation mash. The invention comprises vegetable oils fortified with a ...	01/15/2002
6214398	Method and apparatus for pitting peaches A servo driven peach pitter mechanism with a servo motor (100) for a gripper mechanism head assembly (60) and a servo motor (118) for a selective knife (56), to achieve unlimited control flexibility in rotation of gripper mechanisms (62) and selective kni...	04/10/2001
5918819	Devices and methods for isolating seeds of vegetables and fruits and for releasing and separating same from coats Devices and corresponding mechanical non-fermentive methods for isolating seeds from fruits or vegetables and for releasing and separating the isolated seeds from their coats, according to one embodiment the device includes a first station including a fir...	07/06/1999
5869123	System for processing liquid foodstuff or liquid medicine with a supercritical fluid of carbon dioxide A method of continuously de-activating enzymes, sterilizing or deodorizing a liquid material such as liquid foodstuff or liquid medicine with a supercritical fluid of carbon dioxide. The method includes the following steps: 1) the liquid material is conti...	02/09/1999
5839225	Methods and apparatus for preventing contamination of seeds Methods and apparatus for producing pathogen-reduced seeds from fruits or vegetables by sterilizing the surface of the fruit or vegetable, and subsequently releasing a seed and pulp mixture from the fruit or vegetable, are disclosed. Contamination of seed...	11/24/1998
5305888	Fruit/vegetable floatation grading A floatation separation method is described for separating pieces of fruit or vegetable of the same type, but wherein desirable pieces have a slightly different specific gravity from the undesirable ones, and all have a specific gravity about the same as ...	04/26/1994
4925691	Method and apparatus for pitting and slicing olives 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 kniv...	05/15/1990
4871568	Method for pitting olives A method and apparatus for pitting olives, in which each olive is held between a pair of matching knives as the knives are rotated along parallel circular paths by a rotating drive shaft. The knives may both be coring knives or may both be pitting knives,...	10/03/1989
4847101	Method for pitting and stuffing olives A method for depitting an olive wherein at least one elongated member moves horizontally through an olive having a horizontal longitudinal axis and supported at one end in a recess of a cup to force the pit through a central opening in the recess....	07/11/1989
4768351	Fruit refrigerating device A fruit refrigerating device includes a cylindrical hopper receiving fruits and provided with an axially disposed rotatable worm which moves the fruits through the hopper and a cooling unit for cooling a liquid which fills the hopper and cools the fruits....	09/06/1988
4732771	Method for removing skins and pits from avocados A method and apparatus are disclosed for removing skins and pits from avocados and the like in a process where the avocado is initially held in a split cup, knife means being operated for cutting through the avocado skin and flesh and for engaging and hol...	03/22/1988
4504506	Method for chopping olives A method for chopping olives comprises feeding olives into an abrading zone in a pulper having at least one rotatable brush which clears a screen extending around the periphery of the abrading zone. The brush is rotated to abrade the olive meat between th...	03/12/1985
4486454	Pre-slitter blade in a peach pitter and method Improvements to a torque-type peach pitter and method, during each cycle of which a peach is presented to a pair of peach bisecting and pit gripping blades for cutting the flesh of the peach to its pit at its suture plane and gripping the edges of the pit...	12/04/1984
4485732	Machine for pitting drupaceous fruits 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 su...	12/04/1984
4308292	Method for producing pitted olives A method and apparatus are disclosed for separating the meat of an olive into two end portions and preparing such an olive for packing. This method and apparatus provides for receiving an olive and producing a cut substantially through the meat in a plane...	12/29/1981
4288461	Method of selective pitting for fruits of the drupe type Apparatus and methods are described for pitting fruit of the drupe type, in which fruit having sound pits are torque pitted and fruit having split pits are spoon pitted. A coring spoon is spaced from the pit gripping portion of the fruit bisecting blades ...	09/08/1981
4262025	Method for selective pitting of fruits of the drupe type A method is described for pitting fruit of the drupe type in a cyclical manner in a processing operation involving a series of processing steps in which fruit having sound pit is torque pitted and fruit having a split pit is spoon pitted. In the method th...	04/14/1981
4206697	Method and apparatus for selective pitting of fruits of the drupe type Apparatus and methods are described for pitting fruit of the drupe type in a cyclical manner in a processing operation involving a series of processing steps in which fruit having a sound pit is torque pitted and fruit having a split pit is spoon pitted. ...	06/10/1980
4170660	Method for pitting peaches Method for pitting peaches using a machine which receives a peach by partially cutting it and gripping the stone and while then rotating the peach through a circle engages the peach halves by resilient pneumatic grippers which adapt to the surface of the ...	10/09/1979
4168658	Peach pitting machine having apparatus for preventing deformation of the fruit body gripping structure when the machine is operated with no fruit present In a peach bisecting and pitting machine in which the fruit is gripped by a deformable gripper during the pitting operation, apparatus is disclosed for sensing the presence or absence of a fruit within such gripper and for preventing the gripping deformat...	09/25/1979
4158993	Selective peach pitter A torque-type pitter for pitting drupes such as cling-stone peaches and the like, having coplanar, body-bisecting and pit-holding blades, and coaxial elements for gripping the peach body at opposite sides of the plane of said blades for twisting the peach...	06/26/1979
4054675	Selective peach pitter A torque-type pitter for pitting drupes such as clingstone peaches and the like, having coplanar, body-bisecting and pit-holding blades, and coaxial elements for gripping the peach body at opposite sides of the plane of said blades for twisting the peach ...	10/18/1977
3987948	Apparatus for opening drupaceous fruit A single-stone containing fruit of the drupe family is laid open to permit removal of the stone and implanting of a filling, if desired, by centrally impaling it on a row of tines, every other one of which is held on one half of a split platform with the ...	10/26/1976
3962474	Olive stuffing method Pitted olives are stuffed with an edible food that has been dried to facilitate its handling, and the dried food is reconstituted within the pitted olives by packing the stuffed olives in an aqueous solution. Drying an edible food, such as pimiento, is ca...	06/08/1976

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