US 2007/0089616 A1 · Raisin seed extractor

Abstract

The inventive raisin or grape seed extractor is used for a product made of crushed and destemed raisins or grapes which are introduced in a fast-rotating perforated conical drum for pressing the product; and a worm screw which is arrange inside the drum and turns slightly slow for controlling the forwarding of the product which penetrates in the top part of a cylindrical perforated separation drum arranged on the same geometrical axis that the other drum which is slightly tilted with respect to a horizontal line and turns slowly, thereby passing the seeds through perforations. The treated product is removed through the lower end and a spout towards fermenting tanks, the seeds being removed through an opening by the worm screw. The term “raisin”, translated from French, is understood to be raisins or grapes in English.

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Dependent claims

Raisin or Grape seed extractor for continuous removal of seeds contained in a product comprised of crushed raisins or grapes intended for fermentation for wine-making, the extractor comprising:

a perforated drain drum at an infeed with an essentially horizontal axis rotating at high speed so as to extract liquid parts of the product by centrifugal force;
a worm screw controlling progression of the product inside said drain drum and being able to evacuate the product into a perforated separating drum rotating at low speed, having perforation for the seeds to pass therethrough to fall into a chute (4);
and
a means removing the seeds, the treated product being retained inside said separating drum and exiting at an end opposite to the infeed.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Raisin seed extractor

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Abstract

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