# US 5,699,725 A · System for preparing baked apples and other edible fruits and vegetables > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 5,699,725 A - Document ID: US5699725A - Status: Granted - Kind: A - Application number: 08/650,177 - Filed: 1996-05-20 - Granted: 1997-12-23 - Earliest claimed: 1996-05-20 - Inventors: Neris Poltielov - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US5699725A ## CPC - A47J 25/00: Devices for coring fruit (machines for coring fruit in bulk A23N3/00, A23N4/12) - A47J 43/0722: {Mixing, whipping or cutting tools} - A47J: KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES ## Abstract A system for preparing baked applies (12) and other edible fruits and vegetables which comprises a component for coring through a top of an apple (16) and into a core (18) thereof to remove the core (18) with its seeds, so as to form a hole (20) therein. A facility (22) is for removing some pulp (24) of the apple (16) from within the hole (20), so as to form an expanded chamber (26) therein with a top inlet port (28). A prepared sweet food mass filler (30) can be inserted past the top inlet port (28) and into the expanded chamber (26), a food topping (32) placed thereon and the apple (16) baked. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A system for preparing baked apples and other edible fruits and vegetables which comprises: a) means for coring through a top of an apple and into a core thereof to remove the core with its seeds, so as to form a hole therein; and b) means for removing some pulp of the apple from within the hole, so as to form an expanded chamber therein with a top inlet port, in which a prepared sweet food mass filler can be inserted past the top inlet port and into the expanded chamber, a food topping placed thereon and the apple baked. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) A system for preparing baked apples and other edible fruits and vegetables as recited in claim 1, wherein said coring means is a hand-held coring instrument. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) A system for preparing baked apples and other edible fruits and vegetables as recited in claim 2, wherein said hand-held coring instrument includes: a) a handle to be grasped by a hand of a person; b) a hollow plug cutter barrel extending at a right angle from said handle; and c) a crossbar at a distal end of said barrel, so that when said barrel is pressed through the top of the apple into the core thereof and turned, said crossbar will dislodge the core, allowing the core within said barrel to be removed from the apple. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) A system for preparing baked apples and other edible fruits and vegetables as recited in claim 3, wherein said hand-held coring instrument further includes means for limiting the distance said barrel can be pressed through the top of the apple, when the core is to be removed therefrom. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) A system for preparing baked apples and other edible fruits and vegetables as recited in claim 4, wherein said distance limiting means includes: a) a depth setting indicator; and b) means for retaining said indicator on said barrel in a releasing manner. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) A system for preparing baked apples and other edible fruits and vegetables as recited in claim 5, wherein said depth setting indicator is a washer shaped disc which slides upon said barrel of said hand-held coring instrument. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) A system for preparing baked apples and other edible fruits and vegetables as recited in claim 6, wherein said retaining means includes: a) said barrel having a plurality of spaced apart opposite paired indents therealong; and b) opposite paired spring biased balls carried in said washer shaped disc, so that when said washer shaped disc is manually moved along said barrel said spring biased balls will engage with any of said paired indents on said barrel. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) A system for preparing baked apples and other edible fruits and vegetables as recited in claim 1, wherein said pulp removing means is a hand-held rotary power tool. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) A system for preparing baked apples and other edible fruits and vegetables as recited in claim 8, wherein said hand-held rotary power tool includes: a) a housing having a socket and a handle to be grasped by a hand of a person; b) an electric motor carried within said housing; and c) a rasp bit having a shank that can be inserted into the socket of said housing, so that said electric motor can rotate said shank to allow said rasp bit to remove the pulp of the apple, when said rasp bit is placed within the hole in the apple. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) A system for preparing baked apples and other edible fruits and vegetables as recited in claim 9, wherein said rasp bit includes a ball-shaped head on a distal end of said shank. ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) A system for preparing baked apples and other edible fruits and vegetables as recited in claim 9, wherein said rasp bit includes a dome-shaped head on a distal end of said shank. ### Claim 12 A system for preparing baked apples and other edible fruits and vegetables which comprises: a) a hand-held coring instrument to core through a top of an apple and into a core thereof to remove the core with its seeds, so as to form a hole therein; and b) a hand-held rotary power tool to remove some pulp of the apple from within the hole, so as to form an expanded chamber therein with a top inlet port, in which a prepared sweet food mass filler can be inserted past the top inlet port and into the expanded chamber, a food topping placed thereon and the apple baked. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) A system for preparing baked apples and other edible fruits and vegetables as recited in claim 12, wherein said hand-held coring instrument includes: a) a handle to be grasped by a hand of a person; b) a hollow plug cutter barrel extending at a right angle from said handle; and c) a crossbar at a distal end of said barrel, so that when said barrel is pressed through the top of the apple into the core thereof and turned, said crossbar will dislodge the core, allowing the core within said barrel to be removed from the apple. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) A system for preparing baked apples and other edible fruits and vegetables as recited in claim 13, wherein said hand-held coring instrument further includes means for limiting the distance said barrel can be pressed through the top of the apple, when the core is to be removed therefrom. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) A system for preparing baked apples and other edible fruits and vegetables as recited in claim 14, wherein said distance limiting means includes: a) a depth setting indicator; and b) means for retaining said indicator on said barrel in a releasing manner. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) A system for preparing baked apples and other edible fruits and vegetables as recited in claim 15, wherein said depth setting indicator is a washer shaped disc which slides upon said barrel of said hand-held coring instrument. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) A system for preparing baked apples and other edible fruits and vegetables as recited in claim 16, wherein said retaining means includes: a) said barrel having a plurality of spaced apart opposite paired indents therealong; and b) opposite paired spring biased balls carried in said washer shaped disc, so that when said washer shaped disc is manually moved along said barrel said spring biased balls will engage with any of said paired indents on said barrel. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) A system for preparing baked apples and other edible fruits and vegetables as recited in claim 17, wherein said hand-held rotary power tool includes: a) a housing having a socket and a handle to be grasped by a hand of a person; b) an electric motor carried within said housing; and c) a rasp bit having a shank that can be inserted into the socket of said housing, so that said electric motor can rotate said shank to allow said rasp bit to remove the pulp of the apple, when said rasp bit is placed within the hole in the apple. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) A system for preparing baked apples and other edible fruits and vegetables as recited in claim 18, wherein said rasp bit includes a ball-shaped head on a distal end of said shank. ### Claim 20 (depends on 19) A system for preparing baked apples and other edible fruits and vegetables as recited in claim 19, wherein said rasp bit includes a dome-shaped head on a distal end of said shank.