Skin loosening or removal process
AssigneeJames Foxdale Limited
InventorsJohn Edward Legge Prendiville, Malcolm Louis Axel Avison
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Abstract
A process and apparatus is disclosed for loosening or removing the skin from products such as nut kernels, beans, seeds or the like. The process comprises subjecting the products to a jet or jets of water at ambient temperature so as to loosen or remove their skins. The apparatus includes carriers arranged to receive the products and a liquid jet manifold adapted to direct the jet or jets at the products. In a preferred embodiment, the products are disposed in an annular recess in a carrier, and are subjected to jets of liquid discharged from two nozzles at each end of a bar arranged to rotate above the recess.
Claims13
A process of loosening or removing the skin from products such as nut kernels, beans, and seeds, the process comprising receiving in receiving means a plurality of products in a body thereof having a lowermost region and an upper region, subjecting the products to a jet or jets of liquid directed at the body of products from above toward the upper region thereof so as to loosen or remove the skins of the products, and configuring the receiving means so that, in response to liquid jetting, products disposed in a lowermost region of the body of products move to an upper region of the body of products, and exposing the products moved to the upper region directly to the jet or jets of liquid.
A process of removing the skin from products such as nut kernels, beans, and seeds, the process comprising receiving a plurality of the products in a body thereof with the products in contact with each other, subjecting said products to a jet or jets of liquid so as to remove their skins, and allowing the skins removed from the products to be carried away from the skinned products by said liquid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.