Class 99/547 - Removing core-pit

Subclass of Class 99 - Foods and beverages: apparatus
Definition: Device including means to disjoin* the core-pit*.
No. of patents: 37
Last issue date: 06/22/2010

Number	Title	Issue Date
7739949	Method and device for cutting and coring materials in a hydrocutting apparatus A method and device for coring and cutting food products such as peppers in a hydrocutter. The preferred embodiment of the invention includes an outer rim, which is configured for placement within a hydrocutter. This rim has a first end and a second end and defines ...	06/22/2010
7395653	Systems and methods for automatically picking and coring lettuce and cabbage Apparatus and methods for picking and coring produce heads. A righting mechanism receives and orients planted produce heads, and when a planted head is in a position to be severed, a lift arm and clamp wheel are controlled to position a clamp proximal to the planted...	07/08/2008
7320280	Pitting machine comprising a punching head which performs a curvilinear oscillatory movement in synchronization with the translation movement of fruits to be pitted A pitting machine comprises a punching head that performs a curvilinear oscillatory movement in synchronization with the translation movement of fruits to be pitted, in particular for use in industries that process food such as pitted dried or dehydrated plums and w...	01/22/2008
7185583	Machine for precision low stress coring and slicing of apples and other soft-cored or pitted fruits Fruit items are positioned between vertical pins located in the calyx and stem hole of said fruit item, thereby securing the fruit item by a compressive force through its core. A core tube surrounding the upper pin descends to meet the lower pin, thereby completely ...	03/06/2007
7134351	Seed coring system and method for arranging seed cores for analysis A coring device includes a base portion that receives an arrayed plurality of samples, the base portion including a plurality of vertically oriented slider rods. A coring portion including an arrayed plurality of samples is slidable along the vertically oriented sli...	11/14/2006
7020968	Fruit and vegetable coring machine A coring tool is designed to first pierce the skin of a fruit and/or vegetable such as a pepper. A second phase blade of the coring tool preferably has a pair of oval blades, each with a sharpened leading edge to core the inside of the pepper. Thus, the two phase to...	04/04/2006
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
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
6148719	Mechanical coring device The present invention discloses a device for mechanically removing the core of fruits and vegetables. The device is designed to be used on a vertical or horizontal hand press. The device has an upper collar member having a centrally located threaded apert...	11/21/2000
6125742	Seed celler having dual drives for turning fin and seed cell knife An apparatus for coring and seed celling pears, apples, honeydew melons, cantaloupe and other fruits is provided in which a seed celler support tube is utilized to drive a seed celler knife and wherein a coring tube is utilized to rotate said fruit by one...	10/03/2000
5699725	System for preparing baked apples and other edible fruits and vegetables A system for preparing baked applies (12) and other edible fruits and vegetables which comprises a component for coring through a top of an apple (16) and into a core (18) thereof to remove the core (18) with its seeds, so as to form a hole (20) therein. ...	12/23/1997
5664490	Melon peeler apparatus A melon peeler simultaneously removes the seed pod, seeds and rind from a melon slice. A melon slice input channel and a drive assembly cooperate to guide a melon slice toward a cutting assembly arranged across the input channel. The cutting assembly incl...	09/09/1997
5454301	Apparatus for removing palm heart from palm stalks by coring Apparatus and methods are disclosed for removing palm hearts from the tapered and "meristem" sections of cut lengths of stalks of palm, each of which had included a large "meristem" section joined to a smaller diameter top section by an intermediate taper...	10/03/1995
5437225	Device for removing pits from cherries cleanly with a single hole A device for removing pits from cherries cleanly with a single hole comprising a chain having a circular cross section and having a first end and a second end, the chain being formed of stranded wires; the second end being formed with a ring positioned ab...	08/01/1995
5390590	Apparatus for breaking and coring food products A toroidal shaped impact assembly (10) for use in a hydraulic food cutting system is disclosed. Impact assembly (10) includes frustum shaped housing (22), an attachment plate (28) for mounting the assembly within a hydraulic food assembly, and a toroidall...	02/21/1995
5102678	Method and apparatus for producing a shaped vegetable product A method and apparatus for producing a product of predetermined shape from a vegetable, in which the vegetable is split and the opposed sections are scooped out. In another aspect of the invention a shaft penetrates the vegetable and blades are laterally ...	04/07/1992
5088393	Apparatus for removing pulp from fruit Apparatus for removing pulp from a fruit which has been cut so as to expose a portion of the fruit pulp surrounded by an exposed area of peel including apparatus for mounting the fruit, apparatus arranged in spaced relation to the apparatus for mounting f...	02/18/1992
5074203	Coring apparatus An apparatus for severing fragments (such as fleurettes) from a one-piece core of an article, such as a cauliflower, as the article is translated between stations along a process path. In a preferred embodiment, the article is translated through a sequenc...	12/24/1991
4777872	Fruit slicing machine A machine for slicing oblong fruit which have no pits, such as pitted olives, includes an inclined roller-type conveyor belt extending between an open-bottom hopper-type loading station to an interdigitated rotary knife-type of cutting station served by a...	10/18/1988
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
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
4646632	Fruit slicing machine Olives from which the pits have already been removed are deposited on the upward-sloping carrying run of an endless conveyor which is made of a succession of rollers mounted to chains entrained about sprockets. The rollers have flexible disk-like fins of ...	03/03/1987
4627339	Apparatus for removing skins and pits from avocados and the like 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...	12/09/1986
4609110	Seed separating apparatus and method An apparatus and a method for the separation of seeds from seed-containing fruit rag or the like, particularly the separation of seeds from citrus fruit rag, which essentially consists of seeds, seed sacks and membranes to which the seeds adhere, and of a...	09/02/1986
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
4581990	Vegetable and fruit slicing apparatus A vegetable and fruit slicing apparatus including a member for rotating an object to be sliced about the axis of the object, a cutter blade, a mechanism for moving the cutter blade. The moving mechanism moves the cutter blade along a path oblique to the r...	04/15/1986
4530278	Apparatus for separating pomegranate seeds, scanning apparatus and techniques useful in connection therewith and storage and packaging techniques for separated seeds Apparatus for mechanical separation of the seeds of pomegranates or similar produce comprising a gas jet directed on the portion of the produce to be separated for effecting the separation desired. In particular, such apparatus comprising apparatus for ex...	07/23/1985
4522119	Olive oil recovery Olive oil is recovered from olives by separating olive pits from olives to obtain a pitless olive meat, by maintaining the pitless olive meat at a temperature of about 70° F. to about 110° F., by introducing the pitless olive meat to an extraction zone,...	06/11/1985
4497245	Pineapple cutter A pineapple cutter, wherein a smaller diameter tubular cutter for cutting the core of a pineapple and a larger diameter tubular cutter for cutting the peel of the pineapple are concentrically arranged on upper peripheral edge of a cylindrical body having ...	02/05/1985
4453458	Food processing apparatus Automated food processing apparatus and methods of the type adapted for coring food products wherein a constantly sized core is removed from all food products of a group independently of the product size variation from one member to another of the group....	06/12/1984
4441413	Pineapple cutter A pineapple cutter, wherein a smaller diameter tubular cutter for cutting the core of a pineapple and a larger diameter tubular cutter for cutting the peel of the pineapple are concentrically arranged on upper peripheral edge of a cylindrical body having ...	04/10/1984
4416195	Pimento coring machine To prevent damaging the rotary reciprocating knives and/or the cups which hold the fruit in a pimento coring machine caused by non-synchronous operation of the fruit conveyor and the reciprocating knife carriage, a sensing probe on the carriage near its l...	11/22/1983
4369698	Arrangement for separating fruits into fruit pulp, fruit skin and fruit core An arrangement for continuously separating fruits has a housing, a sieve element rotating in the housing and a hammer element rotating inside the sieve element, wherein the sieve element rotates with the speed which is lower than the speed of rotation of ...	01/25/1983
4096794	Olive pitter and stuffer An olive pitter and stuffer comprising a machine structure which includes two sets of pitting plungers disposed along one side each of respective chains for carrying the olives into alignment with these plungers. On the other side of each chain is an oliv...	06/27/1978
4036123	Machine of cutting cores of vegetables This invention relates to an apparatus for cutting the core of a leafy vegetable, such as a cabbage, prior to the cabbage being sliced for making sauerkraut and the like. The machine comprises a frame having endless belt conveying means for carrying the c...	07/19/1977
3978733	Sampler for extracting core samples A sampler for extracting core samples from a mass of sugar cane. The sampler is mounted on a fixed or movable support which includes a plate member on which the cylinder of an operating jack is mounted. The piston of the jack is secured at one end of a rod whi...	09/07/1976

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