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US 2024/0180225 A1Published application
Water-based cutting mechanism for pitted fruit
AssigneeJohnson Foods, Inc.
InventorGary Edgar Johnson
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Abstract
A processing system that may halve, dice, slice or otherwise cut a piece of fruit in such a manner as to enable pit detection in the piece of fruit. Once the piece of fruit has undergone a pitting process, a cutting process and mechanism prevents a pit from shattering or breaking during the cutting process and cuts the fruit in such a way that the presence of a pit may be easily detected.
Claims12
A method, comprising:
- receiving, after a fruit pitting process, a piece of fruit on a delivery mechanism;
- causing the delivery mechanism to provide the piece of fruit to a water-based fruit cutting mechanism, the water-based fruit cutting mechanism comprising a water blade having an associated diameter and an associated pressure;
- and
- causing the water-based fruit cutting mechanism to cut the piece of fruit whereby the water-based fruit cutting mechanism cuts the piece of fruit and not a pit that remains after the fruit pitting process.
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A water-based fruit cutting system, comprising:
- a water-based fruit cutting mechanism associated with a fruit delivery mechanism, the water-based fruit cutting mechanism having a diameter and a pressure;
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- a receptacle associated with the water-based fruit cutting mechanism and configured to receive fruit that has been sliced by the water-based fruit cutting mechanism after the fruit delivery mechanism provides the fruit to the water-based fruit cutting mechanism.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.