1546results about "Fruit stoning" patented technology

A system, suitable for high-speed operation, by which raw product (45), such as a slab of meat, can be accurately processed, such as by slicing into segments of desired weight, comprises a product profiling apparatus (15). The product profiling apparats (15) meassures the profile of the physical process. The product profiling apparatus (15) includes line lasers (75, 85) for directing a line of light across the upper and lower surfaces of the product (45) and visual image cameras (80, 90) directed toward the profile surface to capture, at fixed increments, the product profile. The product may also be weighed and the product density determined from the overall profile measurements. A controller (150) receives this data, and instructs the physical process accordingly.

A system for preparation of high quality and healthy food by automatic means is provided. The system includes one or more sections for carrying out the one or more operations required for the preparation of food. The food is prepared using automated or semi-automated processes using one or more processing devices.

An apple / potato peeler. The peeler includes a base, a main frame mounted to a slightly L-shaped structure on the base, a rotatable and axially movable screw horizontally supported on a screw support member on a vertical frame member disposed at the rear of the main frame, a 3-prong fork fixed to the front end of the screw, a guide piece pivotally mounted on the vertical frame member and being releasably engageable relative to a screw channel of the screw, a resiliently movable peeling arm fore-and aft swingeable pivoted to the front part of the horizontal frame member of the main frame, a U-shaped peeling blade fixed to the upper end of the movable peeling arm by a blade positioning device, and a coring / slicing blade fixed to the front end of the horizontal frame member for cutting flesh of a vegetable fruit held by the 3-prong fork if the screw into continuous spiral slices and for coring fruit.

An apparatus for slicing fruit or other items is provided. The apparatus includes a top interlocking blade, a middle interlocking blade, and a bottom interlocking blade, each having an apex and two downward sloping edges of approximate equal length. The blades have slots at each side that fit into slots in a circumferential ring. The blades form a cutting surface within the circumferential ring that allows a lime or other item to easily cut into equal-sized sections.

A novel food processing system for dividing a flow of food items into a plurality of streams, gently and quickly transporting the food items along a flume of fluid propelled by eductors to several slicers, transversely slicing the food items at a controlled rate to maximize yield, washing the slices, transporting the slices and controllably distributing the slices onto a conveyor for further processing. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, the food processing system comprises an oversized-product separator, a segmented cutter, a mass-flow / spreading conveyor, a diverter stage, an eductor stage, a dewatering stage, a starch removal stage, a slicer infeed conveyor, at least one transverse slicer, and a slice spreader. In a preferred embodiment, cutting losses are decreased by minimizing slicing speeds.

A food processor (10) includes: a blade (30) that is variously configurable by having its shape and configuration be selectively adjustable; a bowl (18) adapted to be used alone or with various sized bowl inserts (50, 60) which cooperate with the adjustable blade (30) for optimal relative sizing and performance; a variable length feed tube (304); a weighted feed tube pusher (306) for automatically pushing food through the tube (304); and a selectively actuable spatula (204); for cleaning the inside of the bowl (18).

Mechanically harvested chili-pepper plants are sized into chunks and introduced into a water flotation system. Water is added at the top of a flotation vat and, for the most part, is withdrawn at the bottom using a venturi unit. The balance of the water is recovered as spillover from the top of the vat carrying the floating material. If the rate of water withdrawal at the bottom of the vessel is controlled such that it is as high as possible but less than what produces turbulence in the vat, the pulp material will drop with heavy seeds to the bottom with the extracted water while all other materials are skimmed away at the top. The very small differential in density between the pepper pulp and the rest of the plant and debris is sufficient to separate them under these specific conditions.

A hand-held slicing device having a handle connected to a slicing tray. The slicing tray includes a ramp leading to a fixed blade. The ramp is readily adjustable such that the height of the edge of the ramp most closely adjacent the blade can be raised or lowered. In one version, the ramp can be raised or lowered by sliding a support structure connected to a knob that can be slideably adjusted by the user's thumb. The device may include a series of julienne blades that are selectively extendable above the slicing ramp or retractable below the ramp.

This invention relates to a knife of a blender that includes a container, the knife fixed on a bottom of the container, and a base located under the container. The knife is provided with an upper blade having its ends inclined upward, a lower blade having its two ends inclined downward, and a shearing blade installed between the upper blade and the lower blade. Each of the upper blade and the lower blade has a shear edge used as a cutting means. The shearing blade is shaped similar to “S”, provided with two shearing edges symmetrically formed on two end portions, and a plurality of teeth formed along each of the shearing edges with diverse depth. By means of the knife, frozen or semi-frozen fruits can be finely crushed quickly, and fruits and vegetables can be completely blended into juice.

A fruit cutter includes a fixed seat, and a cutting device movable relative to the fixed seat. The cutting device includes a movable seat and a blade unit. The blade unit includes a plurality of cutting blades. The cutting blades have an intersection provided with a sharp tapered drilling portion. Each of the cutting blades has a mediate portion provided with a concave guide edge. Thus, the drilling portion of the cutting blades is inserted into the central portion of the fruit to pierce the fruit, while the cutting blades of the blade unit extend from the central portion toward the rim of the fruit to cut and separate the fruit by guidance of the guide edge of each of the cutting blades, so that the fruit is cut into multiple parts easily and quickly.

This invention includes a system for cutting food products, such as potatoes, into proportional length pieces. In a one embodiment, the system includes a cutting assembly, sensors upstream of the cutting assembly and a programmable logic controller. The cutting assembly preferably includes a housing defining a passageway, at least two separately actuatable stops extendable into the passageway to provide an abutment to hold the food product in place, and at least two separately actuatable blades for slicing the food product into pieces. The controller cooperates with the sensors to determine the length of each food product and, based on a length determinative algorithm, selectively actuate one of the stops and at least one of the blades to determine how many times the food product will be sliced and location of the cut(s) relative to the leading end of the food product.

The invention discloses an apple peeling and core removing all-in-one machine, which comprises a machine frame, wherein a pulley rail is arranged under the machine frame; an L-shaped pushing rod is arranged under the pulley rail; the tail end of the pushing rod is provided with a peeling cutter blade; two groups of motors are arranged under the machine frame; rotatable telescopic rods are arranged under the motors; a steel needle used for being inserted into an apple so as to conveniently rotate for peeling is arranged under one group of telescopic rods; a core removing device is arranged under the other group of telescopic rods; a conveying belt is arranged in the machine frame; a circular ring-shaped tray is arranged on the conveying belt; a recovery box used for discharging out apple cores is arranged under the conveying belt; in addition, the recovery box is arranged right under the core removing device; the right end of the conveying belt is provided with a collecting box; a switch is also arranged on the machine frame. The apple peeling and core removing all-in-one machine has the advantages that the structural design is reasonable; the occupied area is small; the peeling and the core removing are integrated; the work efficiency is high; the apple peeling and core removing all-in-one machine is suitable for being generally popularized and used.

A cutter used to spirally slice a vegetable including a frame; a shaft supported on the frame, the shaft being freely rotatable and movable along an axis; a holder attached at one end of the shaft; a cutting assembly supported opposite the holder having a first annular blade defining a first bore adapted to form a first peel, a cross cutter adapted to break the first peel into a segment, and a second annular blade defining a second bore, wherein the second annular blade is spaced axially outward from the first blade relative to the holder and wherein the second blade has a diameter smaller than a diameter of the first blade and is adapted to cut a second peel from the core left by the first blade.

In a vegetable retainer employed for a vegetable cooling utensil which is provided with a flat blade and a comb blade on a roughly central portion in a longitudinal direction of a vegetable cooking utensil main body of a roughly rectangle in a plan view to shred a vegetable and the like, in order that the vegetable retainer can be held reliably and that a finger tip is prevented from coming into contact with a cooking blade so that safety performance is improved, the vegetable retainer comprises an approximately flat plate-like retainer main body portion whose central portion underside is recessed to form a recess, a vegetable retaining portion which protrudes from the recess and which is constructed of a plurality of comb teeth bodies for being stuck into a vegetable and the like to retain it, sliding portions which extend vertically on both side portions of the retainer main body portion and which are guided by both side portions of the vegetable cooking utensil main body to slide, and a holding portion which extends upwardly from an upper surface of the retainer main body portion and by which a cooking person holds the vegetable retainer.

The invention discloses a rotary type fruit peel and pit removing device. The rotary type fruit peel and pit removing device comprises a machine body; the top of the machine body is fixedly connected with a first hydraulic cylinder through bolts; the first hydraulic cylinder is provided with a first piston rod; the first piston rod is connected with a moving plate; the lower surface of the moving plate is connected with a sleeve; a second hydraulic cylinder is arranged in the sleeve; the second hydraulic cylinder is provided with a second piston rod; the tail end of the second piston rod is connected with a pushing block; the side wall of the second piston rod is connected with a connecting rod; the connecting rod is connected with a dicing device; a sleeve ring is arranged in the position, above the dicing device, of the sleeve; the side wall of the sleeve ring is connected with a rotating rod; the lower end of the rotating rod is connected with a knife blade through a telescopic rod; a waste peel box is arranged below the machine body. According to the rotary type fruit peel and pit removing device, a peeling operation and a pitting operation of fruit are quickly performed through a rotating arc-shaped knife blade; the peeled fruit is diced quickly through the dicing device; fruit peel is collected in a centralized manner so as to keep a production environment clean and tidy.

A food processor defining a food processing path comprises a frame having a first compartment located within the food processing path and a second compartment located out of the food processing path and at least one dicing element configured to be received in both of the first and second compartments. When the dicing element is received in the first compartment, the dicing element dices food passing through the food processing path, and when the dicing element is received in the second compartment, the dicing element is stored out of the food processing path.

A cutting device hygienically cuts a lemon into wedges with a crosscut for hanging the wedges on glasses as served with beverages, such as ice-tea, or cocktails in restaurants or bars. Simple mechanism: the cam mechanism and the gear-rack assembly are driven by two separate manually operated handles that attach to the machine to achieve the slicing actions. Cutting a lemon into wedges with crosscuts is accomplished by simply placing the lemon into the center of the machine and adding pressure in sequence to the two handles by the operator.

Apparatus and method for slicing a food product having a non-uniform cross-sectional area. A laser line scanner scans the cut face of the food product. A line scan camera receives light reflected from the cut face of the food product. The line scan camera is positioned such that the line field of view of the line scan camera intersects the scanning line of the laser line scanner at the cut face of the food product. A controller determines an area of the cut face of the food product using the light reflected from the cut face of the food product and advances the food product to be cut by the cutting device by an amount such that a next slice of the food product cut by the cutting device will have a thickness such that the next slice will be of the predetermined weight based upon the area of the cut face.

An automatic ice cream scooper. A cylinder of ice cream is placed vertically within a refrigerated container on a slicer having a disc shape. The slicer includes an angled slicing blade for removing ice cream. The slicer is rotated by a motor to remove the ice cream. The slicer has an upstanding edge with the screw thread formed thereon for removing the sidewall of the ice cream container.

The preferred example of the pit remover and slicer includes a frame having a central hub and one or more blades extending radially from the central hub to the frame. In some versions, the pit remover may include a frame defining an interior region, with one or more blades extending across the interior space, either with or without a defined central hub.

The combination food cutting board includes removable cups for food items, and a waste compartment. An upper cutting board mates with a lower base. The upper cutting board includes an aperture aligned with a receptacle in the base for waste, and secondary apertures aligned with matching receptacles in the base for holding the cups food items. The base includes a lateral opening and a sliding drawer in the waste compartment, and may include a storage compartment under the upper cutting board.

Devices for removing and / or slicing a meat of fruit are disclosed. In one embodiment, the device has a handle portion and a working portion having an elongated blade and a pair of lateral extensions. The elongated blade has a cross-sectional shape adapted to facilitate movement of the elongated blade through the meat of the fruit. The working portion of the device has a resting configuration in which the elongated blade has a first radius of curvature, and at least one of the lateral extensions is manipulable under a manual force during use to deform the working portion from the resting configuration to a displaced configuration in which the elongated blade has a second radius of curvature, selectively conforming to the curvature of the skin before and as the elongated blade moves through the meat of the fruit.

The combination food cutting board includes removable cups for food items, and a waste compartment. An upper cutting board mates with a lower base. The upper cutting board includes an aperture aligned with a receptacle in the base for waste, and secondary apertures aligned with matching receptacles in the base for holding the cups food items. The base includes a lateral opening and a sliding drawer in the waste compartment, and may include a storage compartment under the upper cutting board.

The invention provides a full-automatic device for removing red date pits, comprising a rack, a motor fixed on the rack, a transmission mechanism driven by the motor, and a processing mechanism for processing red dates, wherein the transmission mechanism comprises a reduction gearbox, a cylindrical cam and a geneva mechanism, the reduction gearbox is connected with the motor by a coupling, the cylindrical cam is connected with the reduction gearbox through an elastic coupling, and the geneva mechanism is fixedly connected with the cylindrical cam. The processing mechanism comprises a flitch, an upper sliding plate above the flitch, and a hopper, wherein the flitch is fixedly connected with the cylindrical cam via a sleeve and is provided with four stations, and each station is provided with a plurality of round holes; a centralizing rod, a pit removal rod and a material removal rod are fixed on the upper sliding plate via screw threads; the head of the centralizing rod is provided with indented inclined pits corresponding to the round holes of the flitch; the head of the pit removal rod is provided with an acuminate pit; and a material receiving slot is respectively arranged on the rack below the pit removal rod and the material removal rod.

A system, suitable for high-speed operation, by which raw product (45), such as a slab of meat, can be accurately processed, such as by slicing into segments of desired weight, comprises a product profiling apparatus (15). The product profiling apparatus (15) measures the profile of the physical process. The product profiling apparatus (15) includes line lasers (75, 85) for directing a line of light across the upper and lower surfaces of the product (45) and visual image cameras (80, 90) directed toward the profile surface to capture, at fixed increments, the product profile. The product may also be weighed and the product density determined from the overall profile measurements. A controller (150) receives this data, and instructs the physical process accordingly.

A food processor defining a food processing path comprises a frame having a first compartment located within the food processing path and a second compartment located out of the food processing path and at least one dicing element configured to be received in both of the first and second compartments. When the dicing element is received in the first compartment, the dicing element dices food passing through the food processing path, and when the dicing element is received in the second compartment, the dicing element is stored out of the food processing path.

The invention relates to food processing equipment, particularly to equipment for coring lotus seeds. A lotus seed coring machine capable of adapting to sizes of lotus seeds comprises a cam movement mechanism, a feeding mechanism, a coring mechanism, a discharge mechanism and a transmission mechanism. The invention has the characteristics that the device can automatically adapt to the lotus seeds in different sizes, the lotus seeds are cored efficiently and accurately without deviation, and the lotus seed coring efficiency and the lotus seed quality are improved; meanwhile, the device is safely and reliably operated and can replace the conventional lotus seed coring machine, a plurality of groups of coring mechanisms are combined, the production capacity is equal to the production capacity of a plurality of machines, the production efficiency is greatly improved, the floor space of the equipment is reduced, and the lotus seed coring machine is suitable for massively and fully automatically coring the lotus seeds at high quality by lotus seed processors.

Automatic pear processing machine, performing the operations of singularising the pears, picking them up from a container (2), peeling and coring them, and separating the edible parts, wherein the improvement consists, besides other things, in providing means 14, 15, 16, 17, 20) allowing to immediately reject pears of irregular for, which would necessarily lead to waste material, and moreover, in providing holes (46, 53) of very small diameters, on the blades (44, 45) used for cutting the pears into segments. The holes (46, 53) of very small diameter, or "microholes", allow to inject a fluid, so as to ensure the detachment of the core from both halves of the pears, and the detachment of these parts from the blades (44, 45).