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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5182983 | Peach pitter blade assembly A blade assembly for a selective peach pitter using simplified construction and a low-maintenance geometry to provide for extended operational efficiency and compensation for play due to wear in the components. The blade assembly includes an upper blade a... | 02/02/1993 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4380953 | Transfer mechanism in a peach pitter In a peach pitter of the type including a pair of blades which both bisect the peach and grip the peach pit, a pair of jaws which twist the peach halves to remove them from the pit, and an aligner which orients the peaches so that their suture planes lie ... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4265169 | Method and apparatus 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... | 05/05/1981 |
| 4254701 | Blade arrangement in a peach pitter A peach pitter of the torque type in which the space between the pit gripping teeth on the peach bisecting blades at the pitting station is open at both ends and each successive peach is fed into said space through one open end and the preceeding pitted p... | 03/10/1981 |
| 4213382 | Selective pitter 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 ... | 07/22/1980 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4122765 | Apparatus for pitting fruits or drupe type Drupe pitting apparatus includes means which receive such a fruit, produce a partial cut in its pulp and thus define two fruit halves adhered to the pit of the fruit and grips the pit, and means for gripping the outer surfaces of the two fruit halves. The... | 10/31/1978 |
| 4109570 | Apparatus for pitting peaches Apparatus to pit peaches consisting of 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 o... | 08/29/1978 |
