Machine for cutting pears into segments
AssigneeAtlas Pacific Engineering Company
InventorsMalcolm W. Loveland, Rudolph Matthews
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Abstract
A machine is provided for splitting a pear which has been previously cored and peeled into two or more segments. The machine comprising a first spindle upon which the pear is cored and peeled after which the pear is pushed by a pusher means on to a second coaxial movable spindle which pivots away from the axis of the first spindle and into alignment with a stationary knife where a second pusher pushes the pear off of the second spindle and through the knife thereby cutting the pear into segments while the first spindle is accepting a second pear.
Claims7
In a machine wherein a pear is impaled upon a first spindle which serves as a support for the pear during peeling and coring of the pear, a second spindle for receiving a cored and peeled pear from said first spindle, said second spindle being mounted for movement into a first position in which the second spindle is in axial alignment with the first spindle, pushing means for pushing a pear off the first spindle onto the aligned second spindle, a normally stationary circular knife having a plurality of radial knife blades for cutting the pear into segments, said knife spaced from the axis of said first spindle, means for moving the second spindle to a second position in which the second spindle is in alignment with said circular knife, and means for pushing the pear along the second spindle through the circular knife to cut the pear into segments.
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