Device for reducing peelable products such as potatoes in size to a predetermined shape
AssigneeBackus Beheer B.V.
InventorStephanus M. M. Backus
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Abstract
A device for reducing peelable products such as potatoes in size to a predetermined shape, consisting of at least one pair of mutually adjacent rotatably driven reducing elements, the outer surface of which has at least one constriction such that two oppositely situated constrictions form a passage opening between the elements for the reduced product, wherein the surface of at least one element is provided with a reducing surface, wherein the constriction is formed such that, as seen in top view, the passage opening acquires a predetermined shape in order to obtain a product with an associated revolutional shape, for instance spherical, elliptical or any other composite form.
Claims17
In a device for reducing peelable products such as potatoes in size to a predetermined shape, consisting of at least one pair of mutually adjacent rotatably driven reducing elements, an outer surface of each element having at least one constriction and being oppositely situated from and cooperative with a corresponding outer surface constriction of at least one other of said elements so as to define a constricted passage therebetween through which a product is passable upon being reduced, the improvement comprising:
- each reducing element having knife-like protrusions engageable with said product during rotation of said elements, for the purpose of peeling the product.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.