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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5722318 | Olive stoning machines Such are designed to optionally allow the stoning machine to work as an olive stoner-slicer and lie in establishing at quite some distance from a disc (14') bearing cups (14) serving as dollies during the olive stoning stage, a disc (17') bearing a plural... | 03/03/1998 |
| 4871568 | Method for pitting olives A method and apparatus for pitting olives, in which each olive is held between a pair of matching knives as the knives are rotated along parallel circular paths by a rotating drive shaft. The knives may both be coring knives or may both be pitting knives,... | 10/03/1989 |
| 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 |
| 4183294 | Stone fruit cutter A stone fruit cutting apparatus for slicing apricots, this apparatus having a pair of substantially vertical belts defining a channel to guide and carry the fruit therealong to the cutting position. The cutter comprises a pair of vertical disc cutters dis... | 01/15/1980 |
| 3987948 | Apparatus for opening drupaceous fruit A single-stone containing fruit of the drupe family is laid open to permit removal of the stone and implanting of a filling, if desired, by centrally impaling it on a row of tines, every other one of which is held on one half of a split platform with the ... | 10/26/1976 |
