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US 5,181,458 AGranted
Apparatus for producing a vegetable product
Assignee461844 Ontario Limited
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 plug is cut into the vegetable, a cylindrical pocket is cut in the plug, and the base of the plug is severed from the vegetable to form a cup.
Claims7
Apparatus for producing a product of predetermined shape from a vegetable, comprising:
- means to cut a cylindrical plug of given depth in the vegetable and to cut a cylindrical pocket in the plug, and drive means therefor;
- means to sever the base of the plug to form a cup and to lift the cup from the vegetable and to release the cup from the cutting means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.