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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 6827007 | Pitting knives having an axial bore and method for decontaminating a drupe A drupe which is infested with a larva of a moth or larvae of other insects, and is contaminated with related excretions, referred to as a “frass”, in a central zone within the drupe, is cleansed with a longitudinally bored pitting knife mounted in the pitting h... | 12/07/2004 |
| 5992310 | Pitting knives having an axial bore A drupe which is infested with a larva of a moth or larvae of other insects, and is contaminated with related excretions, referred to as a "frass", in a central zone within the drupe, is cleansed with a longitudinally bored pitting knife mounted in the pi... | 11/30/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5577439 | Apparatus for pitting prunes or dates An apparatus for pitting articles such as prunes or dates. Each article is loaded between jaws of a chuck assembly which translates between stations along a process path. At a pitting turret, a pitting rubber moves below the chuck assembly, and the chuck ... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5250311 | Apparatus and method for peeling and coring perishable produce A peeling and coring apparatus (20) for use with perishable produce (24) having a tapered neck portion (32) of reduced transverse dimension. Upon placement of the produce (24) into a tapered coring cup (30) formed to receive the produce (24), a detecting ... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5176070 | Machine for stuffing stoned olives automatically with meat paste In a machine for stuffing olives automatically with meat paste, olives are transferred from a serial infeed station to a runout station, at which the stuffed end product emerges, by way of a transfer station that comprises an indexing conveyor with periph... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5024147 | Device for pitting fruit, particularly prunes The prunes are each supported by an annular trough (21A) of the tank (20A), on which trough abuts a sleeve (50A) mounted slidingly counter to an elastic return (52A) along a pitting rod (46A). The sleeves (50A) are juxtaposed one next to the other, while ... | 06/18/1991 |
| 4936204 | Fruit segmenter A citrus fruit segmenter which uses a slicing lever mounted with a blade which is attached to the sidewalls of a frame by another pair of levers. The slicing lever with the blade nudges a resiliently biased crank lever which intermittently rotates a ratch... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4905584 | Pitting-and-stuffing olives, a device for working it and the product obtained therefrom A device for pitting and pitting-and-stuffing olives includes two axially aligned punches for simultaneously cutting through an olive and of the end faces of which is fittingly supported in a seat formed in a cap positioned between the punches. One of the... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4727802 | Fruit pitting machine A fruit pitting machine includes a feeder tray for feeding fruit singly to a fruit conveyor chain which travels around a rotatable support to convey the fruit along a feed path. The rotatable support carries a plurality of pitting plungers and coring kniv... | 03/01/1988 |
| 4644859 | Introduced in connection with olive pitting and stuffing machines The machine for pitting olives and for stuffing the pitted olives with an edible paste, such as anchovy paste, a plurality of axially opening bonnets are arranged in a circle for rotation about an axis through a succession of stations. At a first station,... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4485732 | Machine for pitting drupaceous fruits A machine for the pitting of drupaceous fruits, e.g. prunes, has an endless chain of articulated conveyor plates each provided with several vertical cylindrical bores whose flared mouths face upward on the upper run of the chain where each plate passes su... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4388858 | Machine for pitting and stuffing olives First and second rotary turrets are connected by a drive belt or chain which carries cups to carry and support the olives while they are being pitted and stuffed. Pitting takes place as the belt passes around one of the turrets and stuffing takes place wh... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4290350 | Machines for pitting and stuffing olives In an improved machine for pitting olives and then filling them with a paste, such as an anchovy paste, the olives are supplied from a hopper to a drum rotating on a fixed shaft. As the drum rotates, the pits are displaced out of the olives into orifices ... | 09/22/1981 |
| 4220080 | Machine for pitting and stuffing olives First and second rotary turrets are connected by a drive belt or chain which carries cups to carry and support the olives while they are being pitted and stuffed. Pitting takes place as the belt passes around one of the turrets and stuffing takes place wh... | 09/02/1980 |
| 4216712 | Coring apparatus for fruit and the like A tubular rotating blade assembly which can reciprocatorily cycle along the blade assembly axis. The assembly is incorporated into apparatus which sequentially functions to core a fruit member such as a grapefruit or the like after which the core member i... | 08/12/1980 |
| 4182233 | Stuffing apparatus utilizing a magazine A stuffing apparatus for a machine having a stuffing station and adapted successively to deliver objects, having cavities to be stuffed, to the stuffing station, the apparatus having a magazine housing individual segments of stuffing material; a plunger a... | 01/08/1980 |
| 4103607 | Pitting device for drupaceous fruit An inner portion of a conveyor comprising a plurality of pivotably joined crossbars having an open bottom receiving cup to hold a piece of drupaceous fruit is driven at a synchronized speed below a fruit feeder device. After the feeder device deposits a p... | 08/01/1978 |
| 4096795 | Olive pitting and stuffing machine An olive pitting and stuffing machine has a drum rotatable about an axis and provided with opposing pairs of clamping members angularly equispaced about the axis and respectively engageable with opposite ends of olives fed in succession generally tangenti... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4090439 | Combination pitter and stuffer for olives A turntable with olive cups is advanced stepwise by a suitable Geneva movement. At a feed station unpitted olives are delivered into the cups. Between the feed station and the pitting station the cups are vibrated to properly orient the olives for pitting... | 05/23/1978 |
| 4009650 | Fruit pitting machine A fruit pitting machine apparatus for separating unpitted fruit from pitted fruit having pitting needles which force fruit pits through a pair of springloaded jaws. As a pit is forced through the jaws a pneumatic valve actuates a pneumatic pressure switch... | 03/01/1977 |
| 3965809 | Fruit pitting apparatus This invention relates to a pitting needle and malfunction detector for use in automatic fruit pitting machinery. The needle has a bottom portion which is releasably fixed with respect to a holder. Movement of the bottom portion with respect to the holder... | 06/29/1976 |
