Peeler for garlic or the like with centrifugal discharge
OwnerGeorge J. Federighi, Sr.inventor
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Abstract
Motor driven apparatus for peeling garlic or similar food products has a housing forming a processing chamber and an abrasive rotary disk in the chamber which abrades the skin or husk from the product. A movable gate partially obstructs a discharge slot at the side of the chamber. The gate has a lowered position at which the unobstructed region of the slot is large enough to enable continuous ejection of peelings but too small to allow escape of the product. The gate is raised at the end of each peeling operation enabling centrifugal ejection of the product by the rotary motion of the disk. Manual unloading and separation of the peelings and product is unnecessary thereby providing for fast, high throughput operations. The apparatus may be an accessory which engages on a food processor base.
Claims15
Apparatus for peeling a food product of the type having an abradable skin, said apparatus having a housing with a sidewall bounding a processing chamber, an abrasive disk in said chamber and means for rotating said abrasive disk, wherein the improvement comprises:
- said chamber having an outlet opening at said sidewall which outlet opening is sufficiently small to prevent passage of said food product through said outlet opening during peeling operations while being sufficiently large to receive peelings which are abraded from said food product, said outlet opening being located in proximity to the periphery of said abrasive disk whereby centrifugal force expels said peelings from said chamber through said outlet opening during said peeling operations.
A food processor attachment for peeling garlic, said food processor having a rotary spindle extending upward therefrom for driving attachments, wherein said attachment comprises:
- a housing having a sidewall bounding a processing chamber and having a vertically extending slot in said sidewall, said slot being of sufficient breadth and height to enable passage of said garlic through said slot,
- an abrasive disk disposed in said processing chamber for rotation therein, said disk having means for engaging said food processor spindle and being positioned to support and abrade said garlic within said chamber, and
- a gate extending across a portion of said slot, said gate being movable between a lowered position at which said gate prevents ejection of said garlic from said chamber through said slot while enabling ejection of peel pieces therethrough and a raised position at which said garlic may be ejected from said chamber through said slot.
In a food product peeling attachment for a food processor which processor has an upwardly extending rotary drive spindle for driving attachments, the combination comprising:
- a housing adapted for disposition on said food processor over said drive spindle, said housing having a processing chamber for receiving food product that is to be peeled and having a vertically extending open area at the wall of said chamber that is of greater height and breadth than an individual unit of said food product to enable sideward ejection of said food product from said chamber through said open area, said housing further having a discharge channel extending outward from the region of said open area of said chamber,
- a cover engaged on said housing over said processing chamber and having a passage of sufficient size to enable entry of said food product into said chamber through said cover,
- a disk disposed in said processing chamber for rotation therein, said disk having an abrasive upper surface and being adapted for engagement with said drive spindle of said food processor, and
- a movable gate positioned to obstruct a portion of said open area of said chamber and to leave another portion of said open area in an unobstructed condition, said gate having a first position at which the unobstructed portion of said open area is large enough to enable centrifugal ejection of peelings from said chamber while being too small to enable ejection of said food product, said gate having a second position at which the unobstructed portion of said open area is large enough to enable ejection of said food product through said open area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.