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Fruit peeling machine
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Inventors: Berube, James A.; Howard, W. Garrett;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Simone; Timothy F.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Dorman; Ira S.
A machine for cutting strips of peel from citrus fruit, particularly for the purpose of producing "twists" of lemon and lime, employs a cutting assembly with a circular array of cutters. The cutters have upwardly oriented, transversely extending cutting edges to simultaneously produce a multiplicity of peel strips; they are biased to radially inward positions, and are automatically retractable so as to accommodate passage of the fruit axially between them. The machine includes a cup for receiving and permitting the convenient retrieval of the fruit and strips from the machine, and normally a plunger mechanism will be provided for manually forcing the fruit through the array of cutters. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION It has now been found that the foregoing and related objects of the invention are readily obtained in a machine comprising, in combination, a housing having a receptacle portion therewithin, a blade assembly supported upon the housing over the receptacle portion, and means for forcing a piece of fruit through the blade assembly.
The blade assembly includes a holder having a central opening and a multiplicity of bores extending radially outwardly from the opening, the bores also desirably extending downwardly at a slight angle with respect to a common plane.
The assembly also includes a multiplicity of cutters slidably mounted within the bores of the holder, and means for biasing the cutters inwardly.
Each cutter has an elongated body portion slidably seated within an associated bore of the holder, for substantially radial reciprocation, a blade element projecting from the body portion into the holder opening, and a depth guide element disposed closely adjacent to the blade eIement and radially outwardly from it.
An upwardly oriented cutting edge, extending generally transversely of the longitudinal axis of the body portion, is provided on each blade element.
The blade elements are disposed in a circular array and in such position that a piece of fruit forced downwardly through the holder opening will contact the cutting ed9es substantially simultaneously; as a result, the cutting edges and the guide elements will cooperatively cut a multiplicity of strips from the fruit, for receipt within the receptacle portion.
In the preferred embodiments, the depth guide of each cutter will comprise a roller mounted to rotate on an axis generally parallel to the associated cutting edge and the blade element will advantageously be a separate, generally L-shaped piece.
More particularly, it will be comprised of two generally rectilinear, perpendicular legs, one having the cutting edge formed on it and mounting the roller, and the other being secured to the body portion of the cutter and providing the means by which the blade element is attached
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