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US 5,060,563 AGranted
Apparatus for producing a vegetable product
AssigneeRex Plant
InventorsRex B. Plant, John P. Marton
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for producing a product of predetermined shape from a vegetable, in which a cylindrical core is cut from the vegetable by forcing the vegetable against an annular cutting edge of a tube and cutting the product from the core by advancing a pair of opposed rotatable cutting elements into apertures in the side of the tube.
Claims12
In an apparatus for producing a product of predetermined shape from a vegetable:
- first means to cut a cylindrical core from the vegetable, said first cutting means comprising a tube having an annular cutting edge and a plunger actuable to urge the vegetable against the cutting edge of the tube whereby a cylindrical core of the vegetable is introduced into the tube, the tube having a pair of opposed apertures in the side thereof;
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- second means to cut said product of predetermined shape from the core, said second cutting means comprising a pair of oppositely disposed arms movable one into each of the apertures in the tube toward the longitudinal axis of the core, the arms each carrying a configured cutting element rotatably mounted thereon proximate the core.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.