Apparatus for pulping, slicing and/or destoning vegetables and fruits
OwnerJohn Mathew Clancy, Rodney William Howard +3inventors
InventorsJohn Mathew Clancy, Rodney William Howard, Brian Leslie Wiese, Richard Eben Hipsley, Christopher Patrick Kennedy
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Abstract
Apparatus for pulping, slicing and/or destoning fruit and the like comprising introducing the fruit into a rotating container provided with a plurality of radially extending tubular arms such that the fruit will be thrown outwardly along the arms to strike pulping blades extending across the arm, the pulped flesh of the fruit being thrown outwardly from the tubular arm while the stones are projected tangentally forwards by the blades which are disposed at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the arm within which they are mounted.
Claims6
An apparatus for slicing and destoning stone fruit comprising:
- a receptacle for receiving the fruit having a base, at least one side wall and an opening in the top thereof, said receptacle being rotatable about a vertically extending axis,
- a tubular body opening into the side wall of said receptacle and extending radially of the axis of rotation of said receptacle, said tubular body being rotatable with said receptacle such that said tubular body has a leading and a trailing edge,
- a plurality of spaced apart blades mounted within and extending across said tubular body intermediate the ends thereof, the longitudinal axis of said blades being angled relative to the longitudinal axis of said tubular body outwardly towards the leading edge of the tubular body, there terminating in a leading edge of said blades
- structure defining an aperture in the leading edge of said tubular body adjacent, and radially inwardly of, the leading edge of said blades, and
- means for rotating said receptacle and tubular body whereby said fruit moves from said receptacle into said tubular body where the fruit is sliced by said blades and projected from the end of said tubular body and the fruit stones are projected from the aperture in said tubular body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.