Process and apparatus for peeling food products such as fish, fruits or vegetables
AssigneeProtion Societe Anonyme
InventorsHerve Roussel, Jean-Jacques Hermant, Lionel Dalla-Serra
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method and device for peeling food such as fish, complete or not, for example sardines, herrings, anchovies, etc.; fruits such as peaches or vegetables such as tomatoes whose skin has been previously subjected to a surface treatment. The method according to the invention is characterized in that the food products are displaced inside a conduit (54) wherein circulates an air flow generated by compression or depression. Application to the food industry.
Claims10
Process for peeling food products having a skin and selected from the group consisting of fish, fruits, and vegetables which comprises:
- subjecting the skin to a superficial treatment, displacing the food products in frictional contact with a rough wall, said rough wall being the internal wall of a conduit forming guide means for the product to be peeled, and generating an airflow by compression or depression within the interior of said conduit, whereby the skin of the food products is peeled.
Apparatus for peeling food products having a skin comprising:
- means for subjecting said skin to a preliminary treatment, and means for displacing said food products through the interior of at least one guide conduit, said guide conduit having an internal surface which has a coefficient of friction sufficient to separate the preliminarily treated skin.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.