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US 7,887,865 B2Granted
Pepper boat maker and process for making same
AssigneeKnorr Technologies, L.L.C.
InventorsRobert J. Knorr, John Victor
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Abstract
The present example provides an automated or mechanized, way of making a pepper boat from a de-stemmed pepper. In making the pepper boat, de-stemmed peppers may be split by a splitting assembly. As the pepper is split, or subsequently, a whisk assembly tends to clean a portion of the veins and seeds from the split pepper pod to form two substantially equal halves of a pepper boat, suitable for further food processing.
Claims16
A pepper boat maker comprising:
- a knife blade disposed after a de-stemmer, for longitudinally slicing a de-stemmed pepper in half by forces produced by ejection of the de-stemmed pepper from the de-stemmer to form a first pepper half a and a second pepper half and
- a reciprocating whisk assembly disposed after the knife blade for removing seeds and veins from the first pepper half and the second pepper half as the first pepper half and the second pepper half are propelled past the reciprocating whisk assembly.
A process for making pepper boats comprising:
- feeding a de-stemmed pepper into a fixed knife blade;
- splitting the de-stemmed pepper longitudinally into two halves with the fixed knife blade;
- and
- passing the halves past a rotating whisk assembly to remove seeds and veins from the two halves.
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A process for making pepper boats comprising:
- splitting a de-stemmed pepper having a plurality of seeds, and a plurality of veins, longitudinally into two halves when propelled by a forced past a fixed knife blade;
- removing a portion of the plurality of seeds with a whisk assembly as the two halves propelled by the force pass the whisk assembly;
- and
- removing a portion of the plurality of veins with the whisk assembly as the two halves propelled by the force pass the whisk assembly.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.