Citrus fruit pulp cutter

A cutting device for segmenting and derinding a half-section of a citrus fruit, in order to collect the pulp segments thereof, said cutting device comprising:

• a rigid annular member;
• a first integral ring, a number of arcuate knives spacedly, upwardly projecting from and connected to said first ring, said arcuate knives converging toward and joined in a common apex area, said first ring and arcuate knives forming a generally semi-spherical outer open frame, said first being co-axial with and freely mounted to said annular member, each said knife having a lengthwise exterior bevelled sharpened segmenting edge facing radially outwardly and away from said first ring;
• a second ring, a number of arcuate blades spacedly upwardly projecting from and connected to said second ring, converging toward and joined in a common apex area, the number of said blades being equal to the number of said knives, said second ring and said blades forming a generally semi-spherical inner open frame, said blades located radially internally of said knives, said second ring being co-axial with and mounted to said annular member, each said blade having a first exterior sharpened derinding edge;
• slider means to enable said outer frame to rotate relative to said annular member about the center of the latter in a fruit-derinding direction;
• lock means to lock said inner frame to said annular member;
• each blade taking a concealed position inwardly of, and contiguous with an associated knife in an initial rotated position of said outer frame, said derinding edges being transverse to said knives segmenting edges and facing away from said fruit-derinding direction of rotation of said outer frame;
• whereby in operation, with said outer frame in said initial rotated position, the flat face of said fruit half is applied directly against and pushed fully into said outer frame for segmenting said pulp with said knives-segmenting edges, and the peel is thereafter manually rotated in said fruit-derinding direction, so as to draw therewith said outer frame exclusively of said inner frame, which is locked to said annular member, for derinding the fruit with said blade-derinding edges.