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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7007449 | Onion harvester with leaf topper An orientation system for vegetables includes a plurality of rotating rollers that both pull the vegetable into an inverted position, with leafy top down, and advance the vegetable along the length of the rollers to deliver the vegetables to a cutting system. The or... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6382426 | Apparatus and method for removing tops or roots from crops A machine for removing roots and tops from crops including a pair of counter-rotating rollers spaced apart so as to define a nip therebetween, and means for rotating the rollers characterized in that at least one roller is in the form of a polygonal twist... | 05/07/2002 |
| 5824356 | Method and apparatus for cleaning roots, tubers, bulbs, and the like There is disclosed method and apparatus for cleaning roots, tubers, bulbs, and the like, for example, sugar beets, chicory, Jerusalem artichokes, dahlia, potato, and onions (hereinafter "articles"). In the apparatus, spaced horizontal rollers have helices... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5778771 | Vegetable topper A vegetable topper is disclosed. In one embodiment, the topper includes a plurality of spaced rollers which are mounted on a pair of laterally spaced roller chain loops such that the rollers are able to freely spin relative to the roller chains. The rolle... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5750171 | Finish topping machine for bulb crops A finish topper for bulb crops having a plurality of longitudinal, parallel, generally horizontal, spaced-apart moving belts for conveying bulbs through the apparatus. Adjacent belts are driven at different linear speeds. In a preferred embodiment, altern... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5203259 | Blueberry destemmer A fruit destemmer leaving an endless conveyor belt made up of a plurality of counter-rotating metal rollers rotatably supported at each end by endless chains. The fruit destemmer has an inclined bed with a driven shaft at each end. Each driven shaft has a... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5066507 | Method for removing roots from cormatose plant bodies A method for mechanically removing roots from harvested cormatose plant bodies using a special root removing arrangement comprises supplying the harvested cormatose plant body (3) in between two parallel spaced horizontal rollers (1,2) while they are rota... | 11/19/1991 |
| 4784057 | Tandem drum cluster separator A cluster seprator for engaging and separating clusters of pod vegetables joined together by stem sections from a large quantity of individual pod vegetables, includes two tandem substantially horizontally spaced drums which each have a cylindrical surfac... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4509414 | Stemming and peeling apparatus An apparatus for removing appendages (10A) from articles or produce (10) comprising a first conveyor (12) carrying a plurality of pairs of counter-rotating rolls (16) and (17) for movement along an inclined section (14). The articles are introduced throug... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4254702 | Declusterer disc assembly A declusterer disc assembly (8) is disclosed which is useable in conjunction with a partition (20) of the pod tumbling drum (18) of a declusterer machine to shear the stems of pod vegetables which are engaged and elevated by notches (17) in the inner edge... | 03/10/1981 |
| 4240446 | Vine crop harvester A vine crop harvester which includes cleaning or picking rolls sufficiently close to grip and feed the stalks, the rolls being intermittently reversed to back up the stalk portions having enlarged asymmetrical branch joints and permit free chance rotation... | 12/23/1980 |
| 4152977 | Stemming and peeling apparatus Apparatus for stemming or peeling produce such as cherries and tomatoes comprising a plurality of roll beds with adjacent rolls thereon being power rotated in opposite directions. The beds are positioned with the rolls in a horizontal plane such that the ... | 05/08/1979 |
| 4138940 | Apparatus for removing calyxes and the like from fruits Several pairs of slender rolls having metal core shafts and resiliently soft outer coverings are disposed parallelly to each other and with an inclination in their longitudinal direction relative to the horizontal direction and submerged in water in a tan... | 02/13/1979 |
| 4131062 | Declusterer device A declusterer device for engaging and removing clusters of pod vegetables joined together by stem sections from a mass of such vegetables and presenting such clusters to knives for cutting. A plurality of axially spaced stiffener partitions are disposed i... | 12/26/1978 |
| 4122766 | Fruit and vegetable decapping machine A machine for detopping fruits and vegetables, specially suited for the decapping of strawberries by severing the top therefrom, comprises an endless upwardly-inclined loop type conveyor mounted on a sub-frame which is in turn mounted on a main frame for ... | 10/31/1978 |
| 3942428 | Apparatus for removing roots from bulbs or the like corms In apparatus for removing roots from bulbs or the like corms, the bulbs are thrown upwards towards pairs of cooperating rollers, which catch the roots of the bulbs in the nips between the rollers and draw off the roots from the bulbs.... | 03/09/1976 |
