US 4,481,875 A · Bulb peeling apparatus

Abstract

Here is disclosed a bulb peeling apparatus wherein a means of incising grooves on the outer peripheral surface skins of bulbs while rotating the bulbs is arranged in the course of a bulb conveying means and a compressed air blowing means is arranged further in the rear of the groove incising means so as to peel off the surface skins. It is positive to manually peel off surface skins of bulbs. However, in order to peel off the surface skins of a large volume of bulbs, the rise of the labor and production costs will be inevitable and a mechanical means will have to be naturally resorted to. In the bulb peeling apparatus of the present invention, a means of forming incised grooves on the outer peripheral surface skins of bulbs while rotating the bulbs is provided in the course of a bulb conveying means so as to peel off the surface skins of a large volume of bulbs.

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Dependent claims

A bulb peeling apparatus for peeling skins off bulbs, comprising:

means for conveying bulbs along a predetermined path at a variable speed;
means for setting said variable speed;
means for rotating the bulbs as they are conveyed along said path;
means for inscribing grooves on the outer peripheries of the bulbs, said inscribing means also causing the bulbs to be rotated when in contact therewith;
means for directing jets of air onto the grooved bulbs, such that the skins of the bulbs are peeled off;
and
means disposed near said predetermined path, including said inscribing means, and engageable with the bulbs for loosely regulating the positioning and the speed of the bulbs on said conveying means.

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