Machine for slicing unpeeled apples into rings
AssigneeAtlas Pacific Engineering Company
InventorsOldrich J. Tichy, Iraj Teranchi
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Abstract
In prior U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,586,081, 3,586,151 and 3,869,974, machines are disclosed for orienting an apple along the axis of its central core. The oriented apple was impaled on a fork and rotated while being processed. The machine herein disclosed cuts the apple into a plurality of rings and thereafter removes the core so that when the apple is released, one has a plurality of annular apple segments which are useful in decorating salads and the like.
Claims6
A machine for cutting an apple into annular segments including a conveyor for moving an unpeeled apple continuously along a path past a cutting station, means for continuously rotating each apple on the conveyor about its major axis, a plurality of flat fixed knives spaced along the path at the cutting station for cutting the apple transversely to its major axis into segments and means for coring the apple to release the several annular segments.
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