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US 9,392,816 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for extracting pomegranate seeds from pomegranates
AssigneeState of Israel, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Agricul
InventorsZe'ev Schmilovitch, Yoav Sarig, Avraham Daskal, Eitan Weinberg, Friedrich Grosz, Benjamin Ronen, Aharon Hoffman, Haim Egozi
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Abstract
Apparatus for extracting pomegranate seeds from pomegranates including a pomegranate breaker operative for breaking open pomegranates generally without cutting pomegranate seeds at the interior of the pomegranates and a pomegranate seed extractor operative to engage broken open pomegranates for separating the pomegranate seeds from other parts of the pomegranates.
Claims9
Apparatus for extracting pomegranate seeds from pomegranates comprising:
- a pomegranate breaker operative for breaking open pomegranates generally without cutting pomegranate seeds, said pomegranate breaker comprising a plurality of hooks which engage segments of said pomegranates following partial separation of said segments from each other by scoring;
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- a pomegranate seed extractor operative to engage broken-open pomegranates for separating said pomegranate seeds from other parts of said pomegranates, said pomegranate seed extractor including a pomegranate seed/pomegranate membrane separator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.