Cutting device for citrus fruit

A cutting device for derinding a half-section of a fruit, comprising:

• an upwardly opened container having a vertical axis and an annular upper edge concentric with said vertical axis;
• an upwardly opened cup for receiving and holding the half-section to be derinded, said cup being coaxially mounted in a removable manner within said container at a short distance from the upper edge thereof, and having a central portion with a bottom;
• a knife-supporting element removably mounted in a rotatable manner coaxially on top of the container, said element having an annular bottom edge shaped and sized to fit and be slidable onto the upper edge of the container, said element also having a knife receiving sleeve that extends at a radial distance from said vertical axis and projects downwardly towards the bottom of the central portion of the cup;
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• a knife having a blade removably insertable into the sleeve after the half-section has been positioned in the cup and the knife-supporting element has been positioned on top of the container, said blade, once inserted, penetrating into the fruit at a short distance from the rind thereof and allowing the half-section of said fruit to be derinded upon rotation of the knife supporting element with respect to the container.