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Class 99/542 - And removing cylindrical core


Subclass of Class 99 - Foods and beverages: apparatus
Definition: Device including a curved food entering means which is rotated,
No. of patents: 39
Last issue date: 08/05/2008


NumberTitleIssue Date
7406914Modular blade assembly for produce peeling and coring
A produce peeling and coring device having a modular blade assembly which can be removed and positioned on numerous machine embodiments, such as freestanding machines, wall-mount machines, and tabletop machines. ...
08/05/2008
7263776Fruit and vegetable seed removing device
A fruit seed removing device includes a body, a sleeve, a button, a positioning block, a toggle, a pull rod, a connecting block and a knife. By pulling a hand of a pull rod, the pull rod will drive the knife to move inwards or expand outwards. Then the button is rot...
09/04/2007
7150214Vegetable cutter
A vegetable chopper (10) includes a lower housing part (14), which has a knife (16) on its underside and receives a rotatable inner body with a chopping grid (20), the inner body (18) being fillable with the vegetable. Vegetable ch...
12/19/2006
7114258Fruit stone remover
A stone removing tool for removing a stone from a fruit having an outer flesh portion surrounding the stone, the tool having a head section configured for being gripped by a user and a stem section extending from the head section and having an end opposite the head ...
10/03/2006
7096777Automated coring machine
An automated high volume coring machine having a frame, a lifting device, a coring station, and a programmable controller. The lifting device having a scoop for lifting the produce into the coring station. The coring station having removing the skin and core of the ...
08/29/2006
7077058Fruit 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
7053318Machine for weighing and sorting pieces of fruit and the like
The machine has a regular structure symmetrical with respect to a central axis and provided with limiting end faces, said structure being disposed with its horizontal axis rotatably supported on its axis of symmetry on the frame of the machine, and bearing a plurali...
05/30/2006
6959617Seed 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 coring tubes aligned with the arrayed plurality of sa...
11/01/2005
6854383Apple/potato peeler
An apple/potato peeler. The peeler includes a base, a main frame mounted to a slightly L-shaped structure on the base, a rotatable and axially movable screw horizontally supported on a screw support member on a vertical frame member disposed at the rear of the main ...
02/15/2005
6347581Perfect peeler plus table
A folding table having a hole in the table top is combined with a fruit and vegetable peeler. The table may include a plastic bag retained within and under the hole for containing peelings therein, or may include a variety of other containers in alternati...
02/19/2002
6237475Machine for peeling pears, removing their core, and cutting them into segments
The present invention relates to an industrial machine used to process a lot of pears, and its object is to obtain an end-item which can be readily stored in vases or containers, or utilized to prepare fruit salads, confectionery products, etc. The work c...
05/29/2001
6148719Mechanical 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
6125742Seed 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
6036989Vegetable core removal apparatus
Apparatus for the automated removal of cores from vegetables, especially floretting vegetables, comprises a conveyor (13, 14) including vegetable supports (15) for indexed advancing of vegetables (35) from a loading station (A) to a cutting station (B) an...
03/14/2000
5950528Fruit peeling machine
A fruit peeling machine comprises a base, a transmission rod, an engagement device, a fruit fastening member, and a peeling tool. The transmission rod is rotatably and slidably mounted on the base and provided with at least two spiral slots different from...
09/14/1999
5776531Methods and apparatus for peeling potatoes and similar produce
A method for dry peeling potatoes includes punching the periphery of a potato to form a partially peeled potato having a standardized dimension, moving the partially peeled potato under and over other cutting members to remove the remainder of the potato ...
07/07/1998
5699725System 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
5557998Bagel coring apparatus
A coring apparatus for coring a substantially annular food item includes a base member, a post member extending from the base member, the post member including a drive shaft guide structure, a drive shaft having a longitudinal axis and being rotatably fit...
09/24/1996
5481803Safety feeder
A safety peeler including a short cylindrical shell having a closed exterior portion and an open interior portion with a cylindrical extension extending therefrom including an external threaded portion and an exterior surface therebetween with a top edge ...
01/09/1996
5463943Fruit cutting and coring apparatus
An apparatus (110) is provided for cutting the skin (S) of a piece of fruit (F) so it can be peeled off, and making a core cut (C) through the middle of the fruit. A base plate (112) has an upper surface for supporting a piece of fruit in a position in wh...
11/07/1995
5457888Fruit cutter
A fruit cutter including a tubular body formed at an upper inner side with a pair of L-shaped grooves, a handle having a cylindrical lower portion provided with a pair of protuberances each engaged with one of the L-shaped grooves of the tubular body, a g...
10/17/1995
5454301Apparatus 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
5454300Apparatus for removing outer layers of palm stalks from palm heart
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for removing palm hearts from cut lengths of stalks of palm each of which includes a large "meristem" section that is joined to a smaller diameter top section by an intermediate tapered section, and has a palm heart tha...
10/03/1995
5435238Pear processing method and apparatus
A pear processing method and apparatus is provided which includes several mechanisms for properly orienting the pear prior to coring, peeling and seed celling of the pear. Each pear is tumbled between a pair of orienting rolls to a position wherein the st...
07/25/1995
5373781Fruit cutting and coring apparatus
Apparatus (10) for cutting the skin (S) of a piece of fruit (F) so it can be peeled off, and making a core (C) cut through the middle of the fruit. A base plate (12) has an upper surface (14) for supporting a piece of fruit in a position in which it can b...
12/20/1994
5157836Tool for separating a core, a rind and flesh of a fruit, in particular a pineapple
A tool is described for separating a core, a rind and flesh of a fruit, in particular a pineapple, including, at least, a cylindrical corer which is provided at one end with a cutting edge and at the other end with a handle or other driving member, such a...
10/27/1992
5102678Method 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
5067397Pineapple cutting and coring device
A pineapple cutting and coring device includes a cutting board base plate for supporting a pineapple, an inside cylindrical cutting blade disposed above the cutting board, an outside cylindrical cutting blade positioned coaxial with the inside cutting bla...
11/26/1991
4834795Pineapple peeler
A semiautomatic pineapple peeler in which adjustable width knife blades sever the ends of the pineapple and concentric cylindrical knives core and peel it, leaving the detached core in the peeled pineapple. The one step process is driven by two D.C. elect...
05/30/1989
4741265Pineapple corer and peeler
A pineapple corer and peeler comprises a power rotated head stock and an adjustable tail stock upon a framework to axially support and rotate a pineapple. A rotatable core cutting tube with sharpened circular edges advances axially through the head stock ...
05/03/1988
4729299Citrus 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
4718333Peeling system
The invention is directed to a system for peeling an object having a generally soft interior portion surrounded by a generally hard external surface, where the system is suitable for use by consumers or in areas with consumers. According to one aspect of ...
01/12/1988
4690047Tool for peeling and coring pineapples and the like
The tool comprises two substantially annular and coaxial blades, an inner one and an outer one respectively, each of which has a frontal cutting edge, and a handgrip for enabling the blades to be pushed into the fruit and possibly rotated so as to separat...
09/01/1987
4653393Apparatus for peeling pineapples
Apparatus for removing the peel from a pineapple comprises a tubular knife provided with a toothed cutting edge designed to cut through a pineapple and fixed elongated guide means telescopically positioned within the tubular knife and adapted to direct th...
03/31/1987
4606263Apparatus for peeling pineapples
Apparatus for removing the peel from a pineapple comprises a cylindrical body provided with a toothed cutting edge designed to cut through a pineapple and fixed guide means telescopically positioned within the cylindrical body and adapted to direct the to...
08/19/1986
4497245Pineapple 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
4441413Pineapple 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
4373432Top and butt trimmer for pineapples
A machine for processing pineapples, wherein the remaining blemishes and skin are trimmed from the top and butt portions of a sized and partially skinned cylinder of fruit automatically during processing through sizing, coring, and top and butt removal op...
02/15/1983
4109021Method of peeling pineapples
A method for processing pineapples by sequentially drilling a central hole, cutting off the upper end, transferring the pineapple to a peeling spindle, indexing the pineapple on the spindle through a series of peeling stations, cutting off the bottom end,...
08/22/1978
 
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