Fruit hull remover
OwnerSun Yong Kiminventor
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Abstract
A fruit hull remover removes hulls from berries and other fruit with hulls. The fruit hull remover has a handle, an at least one tong, and an at least one prong, all of which are typically curved or round. The handle has a threaded rod between or at the center of the at least one tong to engage and remove a fruit hull. The threaded rod may be recessed from the at least one prong and have a distal unthreaded region, both which reduce entry pressure into the hull and mitigate entry of the threaded region into the fruit meat to increase intact hull removal performance. A hull ejector has an inner ring and an outer ring to slide down from between the prongs to eject the hull, or the hull ejector may have hemi-cylindrical halves to slide down from between the prongs to eject the hull.
Claims17
A fruit hull remover for removing a fruit hull (B) from a fruit (A), the fruit hull (B) having an outer surface edge (C), a fruit hull center and calyx (D), comprising:
- a handle (105) for holding the fruit hull remover for removing a fruit hull,
- an at least one tong (110) affixed to the handle (105),
- an at least one prong (150) affixed to the at least one tong (110) with the at least one tong (110) configured with a mirror image concavity (120) around a vertical centerline (115) with an at least one prong (150) with the at least one prong (150) having a prong end (160) configured to a diametric distance (125) consistent to the outer surface edge (C) of the fruit hull (B) to improve intact fruit hull removal performance,
- a vertical rod (130) affixed to a distal end (205) of the handle (105) and projecting along the vertical centerline (115) of the handle (105) to a vertical rod tip (145) of the vertical rod (130), wherein the vertical rod (130) above the vertical rod tip (145) is consisting of a plurality of external pitch-directional threads (135) to engage the fruit hull through the calyx for frictionally engaging into the fruit hull (B) to improve intact fruit hull removal performance of the at least one prong (150), and
- the at least one tong (110) and the vertical rod (130) are vertically fixed relative to each other so the least one tong (110) extends beyond the vertical rod tip (145) of the vertical rod (130) to mitigate entry of the plurality of pitch-directional threads (135) beyond the fruit hull.
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