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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7077058 | Fruit and vegetable peeler A fruit and vegetable peeler which is suitably used in general homes for peeling a small amount of fruits and vegetables, which is small-sized and light-weight, and which is further convenient in carrying and storage. A pair of clamp members are supported by a housi... | 07/18/2006 |
| 6966254 | Device for peeling pulpy fruits, having an adjustable cutting depth The invention relates to a device suited to peel pulpy fruits, like citrus fruits, mango, kiwi, papaya, apples, pears, and particularly oranges and other fruits whose skin has not a uniform thickness. The peeling of fruits whose skin has an uneven thickness is made ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6951168 | Vegetable delivery device for vegetable cutting apparatus The present invention discloses a vegetable delivery device for use in trimming roots and tops from bulbs such as onions. The device comprises a frame, a bottom conveyance means and a top conveyance means composed of a chain and gear system with a common synchronize... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6796224 | Machine for the industrial peeling of citrus fruits The invention relates to a machine used for the industrial peeling of citrus fruits and specifically oranges. The only manual operation to be performed corresponds to the loading, since the orange must be oriented. The machine has a high productivity, and does not l... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6740347 | Automatic pear processing machine Automatic pear processing machine, performing the operations of singularizing the pears, picking them up from a container (2), peeling and coring them, and separating the edible parts, wherein the improvement consists, besides other things, in providing eleme... | 05/25/2004 |
| 5858429 | Method and apparatus for peeling potatoes and the like A method of controlling the removal of peelings from a potato product in a peeling machine having abrasive rollers, a rotatable discharge gate, and a discharge conveyor includes providing a shadow-free lighting structure over the conveyor, taking photogra... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857404 | Peeling machine A peeling machine for stalk-like vegetables, comprising a plurality of knife stations that are successively arranged in the direction of travel of the vegetables on a machine frame, is described. A plurality of pairs of feed rollers are each supported bet... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5495797 | Device for automatically processing mushrooms at an optimum processing rate A device for automatically processing mushrooms of given caliber Cal, the device including conveyor means (10, 20, 30) designed to bring said mushrooms to at least one processing station (100i) including detection means (110i) suitab... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5415083 | Apparatus for routering sprouts from tubers An apparatus for routering sprouts from tubers comprises a plurality of sprout routering units, each scanning the surface of a tuber and removing sprouts therefrom if any, and a rotary table on which these sprout routering units are mounted and which rota... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5168799 | Apparatus for the cutting out of vegetable heads An apparatus for the cutting out of vegetable heads, in particular cauliflower, fruits or parts thereof which have on their underside a central part (stipe), which is to be cut out from the surrounding part along a hemispherical or ogival face. The diamet... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5133250 | Fruit peeling machine The machine possesses a bed (101) on which is provided a central shaft or turret (105), having an intermittent rotary motion, on the periphery of which are provided six operating positions, two feed operating positions A, diametrally opposite, with which ... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5000087 | Cutting apparatus for stem and root of bulb In a cutting apparatus for a root and a stem of an onion, a plurality of first swing links composed of a plurality of parallel link rods and a plurality of second swing links composed of a plurality of parallel link rods are mounted to a machine frame for... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4729299 | Citrus fruit peeling machine This invention relates to a method and apparatus of peeling citrus fruit. Citrus fruits are peeled by utilizing a series of cups for holding the fruit such that the core axis of the fruit lies horizontal at right angle to the path of travel. A conveyor is... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4658713 | Apparatus for cutting off a head and a root of bulbs A first and a second leading member are disposed in opposite relation with one another and are supported for movement in a direction axially of a cutting apparatus. A first and a second cutter are supported for movement integral with the respective leadin... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4596182 | Method for providing tops to close pitted fruit and a machine for putting it into practice A method for inserting tops for closing pitted fruit includes the steps of placing a piece of food on a conveyor belt, sliding the piece of food under a viewer, detecting the size and the position of the piece of food, supplying information on the positio... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4337693 | Pepper coring and slicing apparatus Pepper coring and slicing apparatus including a conveyor having individual pepper holding devices for holding peppers with the stem portion upward, a processing station for coring and splitting the peppers, and a discharge station where the peppers are ej... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4246837 | Meat cutting apparatus The invention comprises an apparatus for automatically removing fat from a meat carcass. A sensing station includes a row of needle probes which can be inserted into the carcass and which produce an electric signal at a fat/lean interface. The position of... | 01/27/1981 |
| 3982482 | Fruit peeling apparatus An apparatus for automatically peeling fruit whereby a cutter blade is moved toward and away from the fruit as a function of the sensed impedance between the cutter blade and ground through the fruit so that substantially all of the peel is removed. In th... | 09/28/1976 |
| 3948161 | Seed celling machine A multi-lane machine for removing the seed cell from previously cored apples by selectively cutting a cavity therein. Various size apples are accommodated and the size of the seed cell cavity is varied depending on the size of the apple. The apples are co... | 04/06/1976 |
