| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 099567000 | Separating one external portion from the remaining food | 60 |
| 20080223229 | Horizontal Meat Slicer with Butterfly Blade - A horizontal meat slicer includes a frame and a lower conveyor belt having forward and rearward ends, the lower conveyor belt operative to receive a meat product thereon and transport it into and through the device. An upper pressing conveyor belt includes forward and rearward ends, the upper pressing conveyor belt and the lower conveyor belt cooperating such that meat product is compressed between the lower conveyor belt and the upper pressing conveyor belt. A rotating blade is mounted on the frame, the rotating blade having a cutting edge interposed between the lower conveyor belt and the upper pressing conveyor belt. Finally, at least one drive device such as a motor is operatively connected to each of the conveyor belts and the rotating blade to drive them to pull the meat product through the device and cut the meat product via the cutting edge of the blade. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080250946 | BREAD DECRUSTER - An apparatus for separating a central portion of piece of bread from a crust portion of said piece bread. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20100242745 | Zester having scraper assembly - A zester having an elongated body with a handle portion at one end and a cutting portion form by a plurality of raised cutting elements at the other end portion. A lower member is moveably mounted on said body beneath said plurality of cutting elements to form a collection chamber. A flexible squeegee is affixed to said lower member to scrape zest material from beneath the cutting elements as the lower member is extended outward from the housing after use of the zester. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20120227593 | DEVICE FOR REMOVING BREADING OF BAKED ITEMS - A breading removal device includes a base having a top surface and a bottom surface; a plurality of teeth protruding from the bottom surface of the base for pressing into and removing a breading portion of a baked item; and a handle attached to the top surface of the base for rotating or moving the base and the plurality of teeth pressed into the breading portion. The base may be planar and substantially round, rectangular, square, or oval shaped. The base may be made of metal, plastic, wood, ceramic, or a combination thereof. The handle may be substantially straight, or in a shape of a cross. Each of the teeth may have a tapered tip and the teeth may be arranged in an inner ring or square and an outer ring or square. The base, the handle, and the teeth may be formed as a single unitary unit. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120325096 | Corn Creamer - A corn creamer includes a blade bit with a cylindrical body having a first circular end and a second circular end, and said cylindrical body and circular ends define an interior chamber with an interior circumference defined by an interior surface of the circular ends and the cylindrical body. Teeth are disposed on the first circular end of said blade bit, and a scraping blade member with a cutting edge is attached to said cylindrical body and said cutting edge extends inward from the cylindrical body partially into the interior chamber. The second circular end of the blade bit is attached to a shaft and the device is used to cut and cream corn. | 12-27-2012 |
| 099568000 | Removing shell | 19 |
| 20090133589 | Equipment to break coconuts, nuts, macadamia nuts, and similar, and process to break coconuts, nuts, macadamia nuts and similar - The present invention has the function of breaking coconuts, nuts, macadamia nuts, an similar by increasing compression using wedge and rolling compression, having pins and fins on the roll surface, it favors less energy consume, more yield, and productivity qualitative gain of the whole macadamia nut (with higher aggregated value) and quantitative utilization of broken coconuts, nuts, macadamia nuts, and similar of 100%, continuous work, installation, maintenance and training costs extremely low, and consequently low final cost of the finished product. The said equipment is constituted of a roll ( | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090139413 | APPARATUS FOR SHELLING BOILED EGGS - An apparatus for shelling boiled eggs is described. The apparatus includes a plurality of spaced-apart shelling rollers which are axially parallel to one another, are arranged in a circulating belt guided over end deflecting rollers in a conveying direction, and are driven in the same rotational direction. A plurality of longitudinal guides are arranged above a top strand of the circulating belt. Pairs of the longitudinal guides form a roof-like channel extending in the conveying direction and are moveable transversely to the conveying direction. A region of the top strand a first operating region breaking open eggshells, and a second operating region for shelling the boiled eggs. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090145308 | Egg cracker - An egg cracker includes a cracking apparatus having a semi-egg-shaped and a sharpened inner annular hooked portion formed on an enlarged lower edge of the cracking apparatus. The cracking apparatus includes a protrusion extending therefrom and a hollow stem longitudinally extending form the protrusion. A crack shaft and a longitudinal resilient member are respectively and sequentially disposed into the stem. A narrowed opening is defined in a distal end of the stem to prevent the resilient member and the crack shaft from detaching from the stem. The crack shaft includes a first end formed with a block and a second end extending through the narrowed opening. A puller is connected to the second end of the crack shaft for pulling the crack shaft and compressing the resilient member. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20120103204 | Nutcracker Meat Extractor - A nutcracker that focuses on the extraction of the nut-meat after the nut has been cracked by having the lever arms end resembling serrated flathead screwdrivers which allow for the easy plucking out of the meat after the shell has been cracked. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20130152804 | Hand-operated appliance for shucking black-eyed pea seed coverings from their kernels - A hand-held, manually operated seed shucking appliance enables a food preparer to remove the seed coverings of black-eyed peas from their kernels. A spring and piston inside a chamber are arranged to compress a load of pre-soaked black-eyed peas against a shuttle rasp threaded between side slots. As a user manipulates the shuttle rasp, the shucks are scraped off the seeds by a scraping surface and both pass through the side slots. The piston is configured to be cocked back such that the chamber can be loaded through one end with a fresh charge of black-eyed peas. | 06-20-2013 |
| 099569000 | With sorting | 5 |
| 20090301320 | Shelling-Separating Machine Especially For Almonds And Other soft-shelled nuts - A shelling-separating machine for almonds and other soft-shelled nuts is provided incorporating operational and functional features which ensure the obtaining of the kernel in optimal conditions, while at the same time allowing for an effective separation of the almonds and other hard-shelled nuts that may accompany the soft-shelled nuts. At the inlet end, the machine provides means for continuously feeding the product for the purpose of eliminating obstructions inside such machine. At the outlet end, the machine provides retaining means which can be manually or automatically actuated and which keep the outlet closed in order to retain the non-shelled product until the operational conditions recommend the actuation and opening of such retaining means to allow the non-shelled product to exit the machine, preferably by the overflow with respect to a previously established level. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20140020571 | Rotary Machine for Separation of a Hard Plant Component from a Connected Soft Matter Component - Aspects of the present invention relate to a system configured for separating a nut or other hard component from soft matter connected to the hard component. The system includes first and second rotary modules. The first rotary module includes a cylindrical first chamber defined by an inner surface and a first rotary assembly within the first chamber. The second rotary module is in communication with the first rotary module such that the first rotary module feeds the hard component and the pulp into the second rotary module. The second rotary module includes a cylindrical screen defining a cylindrical second chamber and a second rotary assembly disposed within the second chamber. The system may further include an infeed assembly for feeding the material into the first rotary module, and/or a discharge portion for discharging the hard component through an exit port after separation by the second rotary module. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20160007804 | PERSONAL PEANUT SHELLER | 01-14-2016 |
| 099570000 | By fluid | 2 |
| 20090293741 | SYSTEM, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING HARVESTED WALNUTS - A system and method for processing harvested walnuts that includes a walnut separator for separating walnuts without hulls from walnuts with hulls prior to a hulling process in order to increase productivity of the huller. A huller by-pass system conveys walnuts without hulls to a post-hulling processing. A walnut separator may include a screen having a selected screen size that permit walnuts without hulls to pass through the screen and prohibit walnuts with hulls and therefore a larger diameter, to pass through the screen. Alternately the walnut separator may include an optical sensor positioned to scan harvested walnuts. A controller connected to the optical sensor processes input from the optical sensor and selectively actuates a walnut selection or ejection device causing a walnut to by-pass a process. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100175570 | EGGSHELL MEMBRANE SEPARATION METHOD - A method for processing unseparated egg shells is provided. The method includes placing the unseparated egg shells in a fluid tank containing a fluid mixture, applying cavitation to the fluid mixture to thereby assist in separating the egg shell membranes from the egg shells, and recovering the egg shell membranes. Preferably, the fluid mixture is recirculated to thereby provide for continuous processing of unseparated egg shells. The method may further include drying the egg shell membranes to produce dried egg shell membranes which may then be vacuum packaged for storage and/or transport. The dried egg shell membranes may then be subjected to an extraction process for extracting at least one type of polypeptide from the egg shell membranes. Collagen, hyaluronic acid, or amino acids of interest may be extracted from the egg shell membrane and purified for numerous uses. | 07-15-2010 |
| 099571000 | By sudden-impact | 3 |
| 20100000422 | Gravity-induced impact nutcracker - A gravity-induced impact-type nutcracker with a self-guided trip hammer that, upon actuation, drops solely via the force of gravity to strike a nut supported within a nut cracking chamber with a consistently guided uniform force. The helve of the hammer is pivotally supported adjacent its rear end between a pair of upstanding guide columns. A cord connected to the rear of the hammer helve is attached to a freewheeling take-up spool which is releasably engagable by a hand crank drive wheel to facilitate raising the hammer head to a set position prior to releasing the same. Continued rotation of the crank causes a release mechanism connected to the rear of the hammer helve to disengage the take-up spool from the drive wheel, thereby releasing and allowing the hammer to drop under its own weight. The cracking chamber which holds the nut includes a removable drawer with a variety of differently sized nut-retaining cavities formed therein for accommodating a variety of different types and sizes of nuts. The impact nutcracker is constructed primarily of wood with an aesthetically pleasing and unique appearance. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100116154 | NUT-CRACKING APPARATUS - A nut-cracking apparatus that is compact and efficient cracks nuts at high production rates. The nut-cracking apparatus includes an endless conveyor and delivers nuts from a hopper to a delivery point. The nuts are engaged at the delivery point by a nut-cracking unit which cracks the nuts. The endless conveyor includes nut pockets which are made up of separate nut pocket segments that are movable from open to closed positions. The nut pocket segments are in an open position where the nuts are cracked to provide ample room for cracking of the nut. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20170231263 | VACUUM ASSISTED NUT CRACKER | 08-17-2017 |
| 099574000 | By rotating separating means | 4 |
| 20130133529 | Device For Regulating And Adjusting The Position Of Rollers In Peeling And Re-Peeling Machines For Almonds And Similar Dried Fruits - A device for regulating and adjusting a distance between pairs of adjacent rollers in a peeling machine for almonds and similar dried fruits is provided, wherein the rollers are horizontally aligned at both sides of a central plane through which the product to be peeled is passed, the device including a movement transmission shaft coupled to each pair of adjacent rollers, a motor for operation of the movement transmission shaft, wherein the motor is coupled to one of the ends of the transmission shaft, a torque meter for measuring torque at various positions of the rollers, wherein the torque meter is coupled to a spin axis of at least one of the rollers in the pair, and a sensor for measuring and regulating a working distance between the rollers, wherein the sensor is coupled to at least the other roller in the pair. | 05-30-2013 |
| 099575000 | Relative movement between adjacent irregular surfaces | 2 |
| 20090193984 | NUTCRACKER - A nutcracker utilizes a cone with a textured exterior surface rotatably mounted and centered inside a vertical cylinder with a textured interior surface. The textured exterior surface and the textured interior surface are non-parallel and form a cracking zone that becomes smaller in the downward direction. As the conical member rotates, gravity rolls nuts down in a spiraling path, between and along the preferred elongated and slanted protrusions forming the texture. This path takes the nuts into an increasingly smaller cracking zone until the pressure on the nuts from the conical and cylindrical members causes the nut-hells to crack and the nuts typically to break into halves and thirds. The nutcracker may have a multiple plate system below the cracking zone that manages the nuts and shells after cracking. The nutcracker may include an adjustable barrel that rolls up and down inside a housing, for changing the minimum width of the cracking zone. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20130298785 | Nut Shell Removal System and Method - A device and method for shelling nuts. The device may be attached to a belt sander. The device includes a hopper into which the nuts are initially placed. Two large threaded fasteners on the central portion are used to adjust the system for the size of nut being shelled. A bracket placed behind the central portion attaches the device to the sander. The rotating belt brings the nut down to a lower opening formed to be just smaller than the shell of the nut being shelled. As the shell of the nut is caused to pass through this opening, the shell cracks. The nut with the cracked shell now impacts on one or more strike plates. These impacts further propagate the cracks formed in the shell so that the fragmented shells fall away from the nut. The nut and the cracked shells fall into the collection bag. | 11-14-2013 |
| 099576000 | Disc or saw separating means | 1 |
| 20110120320 | COCONUT OPENER DEVICE - A coconut opening device for creating an opening in a coconut having a tapered end portion formed in an outer husk surrounding an internal shell housing coconut water. The device includes a motor, shaft, and cutting mechanism. The shaft has a proximal end portion coupled to the motor and a distal end portion connected to the cutting mechanism. The cutting mechanism is rotatable with the shaft when the shaft is rotated by the motor. The cutting mechanism is positionable over the tapered end portion of the husk, and operable when so positioned (and rotated by the motor) to cut an opening in both the husk and the shell to provide access to the coconut water housed inside the shell. The coconut may be positioned by a coconut holder when the opening is cut. | 05-26-2011 |
| 099581000 | By relatively movable shell contacting means | 2 |
| 099582000 | With means to restrain food prior to or during shell-breaking | 2 |
| 20130104753 | SHELL CRACKING AND RETAINING DEVICE | 05-02-2013 |
| 20150305569 | NUT DISASSEMBLING DEVICE - A nut disassembling device is provided, comprising an adjustment member, a support rod, a center pillar and two clamping blocks. The support rod is screwed with two tightening members. Each of the tightening members is rotatable relative to the support rod, and the clamping block is moved by the tightening member. Thus, during the clamping of the nut, the clamping blocks close and push the nut through rotation of the tightening members, and it effectively improves the clamping for installation and uninstallation of the nut. | 10-29-2015 |
| 099584000 | Removing skin | 25 |
| 20100000423 | PEELING APPARATUS - A peeling apparatus includes a peel body and a ceramic blade unit. The peel body has a handgrip part and two carrier arms extending from a distal end of the handgrip part. The ceramic blade unit has two opposite sides connected pivotally to the carrier arms, an inner cutting edge and an outer blunt edge extending between the opposite sides so as to expose the outer blunt edge to an exterior thereof. The inner cutting edge is used for peeling an external surface of fruit and vegetable, and the outer blunt edge is easy shoveled off waste resulted from peeling operation of the inner cutting edge. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20120085249 | ASSEMBLED PEELER - The present invention relates to an assembled peeler, comprising: a rod-shaped handle, the front thereof is axially and protrudingly installed with a buckling tenon or radially installed with a buckling slot; and at least one knife rack, the front thereof is formed with an opening for receiving a knife tool, and the rear of each knife rack is radially installed with a buckling slot or axially and protrudingly installed with a buckling tenon; the handle and the knife rack being combined as one piece through radially inserting the buckling tenon into the buckling slot, such that the knife tool of the knife rack being able to be axially forced for food process operations such as peeling, chopping, slicing, grinding or splitting, so the safety for users is ensured. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120318151 | ONION PEELING DEVICE - The invention relates to an onion peeler comprising a first part ( | 12-20-2012 |
| 20140352555 | GARLIC PEELER - A garlic clove peeler comprising a housing formed with a clove receiving compartment and with a friction wall and a balloon-like complimentary peeling element made of resilient material and having a shaft that has a rotational axis and that removably connects to the housing. The peeling element being formed with a peeler surface extending adjacent the friction wall and resiliently biased in a direction facing the friction wall wherein the friction wall and the peeler surface are concentric with respect to the rotational axis of the shaft. A displacement mechanism is provided for rotating one or both of the friction wall and the peeling element about the rotational axis, wherein a gap extends between the peeler surface and the friction wall, and wherein the gap is sized so as to snugly receive one or More garlic cloves and to allow the cloves to be carried around in the gap while maintaining contact with said peeler surface on one side and with the friction wall on the other side during the operation of the displacement mechanism and to be peeled without being bruised, and wherein the peeling element retains its shape. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20180020863 | GARLIC PEELER | 01-25-2018 |
| 099587000 | By gripper means | 1 |
| 20150296862 | Avocado Skinning and Pulping Device - An Avocado Skinning and Pulping Device. The device uses a single cutting blade to cut through both the seed and meat of incoming avocados. The device has a feature wherein the cutting blade can be sharpened while in operating condition (without removing the blade from the machine). To increase cut uniformity, there are a series of guides, elements and other apparatus that will place the incoming avocados in a consistent orientation relative to the cutting blade before they are cut. The device includes a set of custom-shaped ramps designed to guide and transport the cut avocado halves down to the moving exit conveyor so that the halves land face-down on the exit conveyor. The disassembly and reassembly can be completed rapidly. The de-seeding mechanism has also been improved upon over the parent designs. | 10-22-2015 |
| 099588000 | By paring tool | 12 |
| 20090235830 | Vegetable peeler - A vegetable peeler having a holder and a peeling knife supported by the holder, which includes a cutting edge extending in a longitudinal direction, a cutting gap and an engagement line. The engagement line formed at a side of the cutting gap opposite the cutting edge and a peeling direction, during peeling, being directed from the cutting edge toward the engagement line. The vegetable peeler may also include a deviation surface which, during the peeling procedure, in peeling direction, is behind the peeling knife at least in part, which extends at least over a middle longitudinal range, of the peeling knife, and an exit area so that pieces of peel cut-off are forward deviated by the deviation surface, when seen in peeling direction, and fall through the exit area out of the vegetable peeler. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20100269715 | STRAIGHT PEELER - The vegetable peeler for separating the peel from fruits and vegetables includes a handle, a tool head or blade mount, and a blade. The handle is configured to be able to receive and store at least one spare cutting blade such that the blade can be removed from the tool head and replaced with a different blade stored in the handle. | 10-28-2010 |
| 099590000 | Arcuately shaped tool | 1 |
| 20080282910 | Rechargeable hand-held rotary vegetable peeler - An electrically powered apparatus for peeling vegetables and fruits having a handle housing containing a rotary electric motor with a rotatable output shaft, the output shaft being accessible from a distal end of the housing and a battery power source contained within the handle housing. A manually operable switch is mounted on the housing to operate the motor. A rotatable flexible peeler assembly is detachably connected to the output shaft for rotation by the shaft, with the flexible peeler assembly comprising a plurality of flexible blade members mounted to a cylindrical support base member and a cutting tip mounted to distal end of the support base member. Each flexible blade member is formed with a base portion which is mounted in the support base member and defines a plurality of transverse slits which extend away from the base portion to the outer edge of the blade member to form a plurality of flexible abrasive strips. A shield member is removably mounted to the handle housing, the shield defining an open lower section exposing the abrasive flexible strip and an open distal end through which the cutting tip extends. | 11-20-2008 |
| 099591000 | Plural tool means | 4 |
| 20130305935 | Peeler - According to certain embodiments of the present disclosure, devices are described herein for providing multiple identical or varied vegetable peeler cutting heads within a single frame. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20140352556 | PEELING DEVICE - The present invention relates to a peeling device ( | 12-04-2014 |
| 20160120210 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING A PINEAPPLE - A device for processing a pineapple to produce pineapple flesh including a first processing unit for removing the outer ends from the pineapple and a second processing unit for simultaneously coring and peeling the pineapple, wherein the second processing unit includes a pusher and knife with two concentric blades and further includes a clamping unit. | 05-05-2016 |
| 099592000 | With sectioning means | 1 |
| 20140150676 | FOOD PREPARATION DEVICE - A food preparation device comprising a container, where the container includes an inner portion to receive a food product; a lid to fit atop the container, where the lid includes a plurality of blades arranged radially across the lid; and a press, where the press pushes the food product against the blades and through the lid into the inner portion of the container, where upon passing the plurality of blades an outer layer is removed from the food product. The food preparation device is used to remove the skin from a head or clove of garlic while avoiding excessive touching or handling the garlic itself. | 06-05-2014 |
| 099593000 | Tool rotates about its own axis | 4 |
| 20090090255 | Agricultural product peeling apparatus - An agricultural product peeling apparatus includes an alignment supply unit, a peeling unit, and a plurality of urging plates. The alignment supply unit aligns and supplies agricultural product such as potatoes. The peeling unit includes a pair of parallel rotary members with a cutting body on their outer surfaces and peels with the cutting body the agricultural products, sequentially supplied from the alignment supply unit to a convey path formed between the rotary members. The urging plates move the agricultural products supplied to the start side of the convey path to the end side of the convey path. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090199726 | AVOCADO DE-SKINNING APPARATUS - An avocado de-skinning apparatus having two vertically disposed rotating drums which rotate inward. The drums each have axial grooves which are perpendicular to the axis of the drums and intersecting cross grooves which are perpendicular to the axial grooves and parallel to the axis of the drums. The rotating drums pinch off the skin of an avocado and force it through a drum gap between the rotating drums. The avocado pulp drops off for further processing. A skin scraper at the rear of the rotating drums removes skin adhering to the drums and a pulp scraper [doctor blade] to the front, with ends which corresponds to the shape of the axial grooves, biases onto the axial grooves and scrapes off any pulp adhering to the drums for further processing. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20140311362 | Peeling Machine - A peeling machine according to the present invention includes a cutter head and a feed mechanism having upper and lower feed rollers, and the feed mechanism includes a first holder that supports the lower feed roller, a second holder that supports the upper feed roller, a roller opening/closing driving mechanism, a synchronizing mechanism that has a pinion disposed in the same vertical plane as axes of the both feed rollers and first and second racks, and a grasping-force applying cylinder that applies a downward work grasping force to the second holder. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20150289703 | DEVICE FOR EXTRACTING ZEST FROM A FRUIT AND RELATED METHODS - A device for extracting zest from a fruit includes a body, a carrier coupled to the body, and a blade coupled to the body. The carrier moves the fruit relative to the blade and holds the fruit as the blade separates a portion of the flavedo from the pith of the fruit's peel to extract zest from the fruit. The device also includes an arm that urges the blade against the fruit's peel to generate contact pressure as the carrier moves the fruit relative to the blade, and that allows the blade to move toward and away from the carrier to accommodate the contour of the fruit's peel, which is often curved. The blade includes a plurality of teeth, each configured to cut a portion of the fruit's flavedo from the fruit's pith without separating the pith from the berry. | 10-15-2015 |
| 099594000 | With means to hold and rotate food | 1 |
| 099595000 | And means to translate food past tool | 1 |
| 20080314262 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CUTTING PRODUCE IN A CONTINUOUS CURL FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAKING A CURLY SPIRALED POTATO CHIP - An apparatus for manufacturing a curly sliced potato chip includes: a base frame; a cutting blade coupled to the base frame; and a rotatable threaded rod having a predetermined threaded pitch to which rod the potato is mounted. The rod is turned to rotate the potato while it is in a cutting position and to displace it toward or away from the cutting blade. A quick release engaging member has a threaded portion with a pitch compatible with the pitch of the rod. The member is fixed relative to the base frame and is selectively coupled with the threaded rod to selectively drive the potato mounted on the rod toward or away from the cutting blade as the rod is rotated. The potato is displaced toward or away the cutting blade at a linear displacement rate determined by the pitch of the threaded rod. | 12-25-2008 |
| 099600000 | Grain hulling | 5 |
| 099601000 | With means to segregate diverse materials | 2 |
| 099602000 | By hulling means | 2 |
| 099605000 | Cylindrical or conical perforated enclosure | 2 |
| 099606000 | With axially extending nonperforated hulling portion | 1 |
| 20100043652 | Rice milling sample machine, for the milling of small sample, 1000g for the determination of quality and milling yield, for the buying and selling of rough rice - The present invention is an improvement upon such machines as the McGill #3 Rough Rice Milling Machine, and replica models like the McGill #3 Rough Rice Milling, by eliminating the 5 wear points associated with the machine: back plate, rear plate threaded collar, rear plate rings, back plate wear rings and excentric threaded locking nut. Since these five wear areas are of different structural material, back plate: cast aluminum, rear plate: mild steel, eccentric locking nut: cast bronze, the wear rate is not uniform or predictable, thus causing a draft or misalignment of the milling cylinder in the milling basket assembly. The break bars in the Milling Basket Assembly must be in perfect alignment with the shaft that the milling cylinder rotates on. If a misalignment occurs due to wear or uneven wear on the basket assembly then misrepresentative results of the milling yield will occur. | 02-25-2010 |
| 099607000 | With additional hulling surface characteristics on enclosure | 1 |
| 20140174302 | GRINDING TYPE VERTICAL GRAIN POLISHING MACHINE - A bran removing wire-mesh tube includes: bran removing wire-mesh tube parts | 06-26-2014 |
| 099617000 | By rotating surface | 3 |
| 20090056563 | Husking-roll driving device in hull remover - There are provided a first belt-clutch mechanism switching power transmission to a first large-diameter pulley, and, at the same time, a second belt clutch mechanism switching power transmission to a second large-diameter pulley, and | 03-05-2009 |
| 20110192291 | Grain Huller - A supply plate, which guides a material grain to a contact point between first and second rolls supported by a position-fixed shaft and a position-movable shaft respectively, has a proximal end portion supported by a pivot shaft in a relatively non-rotatable manner, the pivot shaft being disposed parallel to the position-fixed shaft and the position-movable shaft. A position-movable shaft support member that supports the position-movable shaft in a rotatable manner around the axis line is pressed toward the position-fixed shaft by a pressing mechanism so that the first and second rolls are pressed at the contact point to each other under a predetermined pressure. A link arm, which has a proximal end portion supported in a relatively non-rotatable manner by a fulcrum shaft parallel to the pivot shaft, is pressed to a surface of the position-movable support member that faces the position-fixed shaft. The fulcrum shaft and the pivot shaft are operatively connected to each other through a link mechanism. The contact point is shifted as the position-movable shaft support member is moved toward the position-fixed shaft in accordance with the abrasion of the first and second rolls, and at the same time, the pivot shaft is rotated around the axis line by way of the link arm, the fulcrum shaft and the link mechanism in accordance with the movement of the position-movable shaft support member, whereby the slant angle of the supply plate is automatically changed so that the distal end portion of the support plate is directed to the contact point that has been shifted. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20120132087 | Husk Removing Device - A husk removing device includes a screen body having an inner surface and an outer surface, and formed with a plurality of protrusions, and a plurality of elongated holes extending through the inner and outer surfaces. Each of the protrusions includes a flat portion distal from the inner surface and having a peripheral edge, and a surrounding portion that extends and tapers from the inner surface to the peripheral edge of the flat portion. A height of the flat potion from the inner surface is not greater than 1 mm. Each of the elongated holes passes through the flat portion and the surrounding portion of at least one of the protrusions so as to form a pair of opposing first shaving edges at the flat portion and pairs of second shaving edges at the surrounding portion. | 05-31-2012 |
| 099623000 | By abrading or resilient separating means | 2 |
| 099629000 | Including tumbling means | 2 |
| 099630000 | Having a container which rotates, or has internal rotating abrading | 2 |
| 20150082999 | CENTRIFUGAL PRODUCT PEEL SEPARATION AND REMOVAL APPARATUS - An agitator for a product peel removal system, the agitator comprising: a central axle having a plurality of outwardly projecting arms; and a product lifter at the distal end of at least one of said outwardly projecting arms; and an apparatus for product peel removal comprising: a drum having an inlet for receiving product, an outlet for dispensing of product; and a plurality of perforations through which removed peel may pass; at least one agitator arranged within said drum and rotatable relative to said drum for agitating the product passing between said inlet and outlet; and means for controlling the retention time of product within the rotatable drum independently from the rotation speed of the agitator. | 03-26-2015 |
| 099631000 | Vertical container with rotating bottom | 1 |
| 20110162539 | PEELING MACHINE - The present invention provides a peeling machine comprising a container furnished with a space in which the peels are removed from produce, a rotating plate located inside said container and coupled to a blade, a peel exit extending from the bottom of said container to the exterior, a plurality of wing plates that are located between the bottom of said container and said rotating plate and placed at equal angles with respect to the center of said rotating plate, and that also rotate when said rotating plate rotates, and a motor that supplies power to said rotating plate. | 07-07-2011 |
| 099635000 | Removing stem-end or blossom-end | 11 |
| 20120042791 | Bean knife mount - The bean knife mount is a mounting device to mount bean knives that allow the user to mount the knives in a manner consistent with cutting the bean plant just below the surface of the earth. The angle of the mounts allows the knives to travel just below the soil line, cutting the plant very low, preventing the plant from being harvested to high up on its stalk. This eliminates loss of bean pods from the plant and increases the output and increasing profits. | 02-23-2012 |
| 099636000 | Including blossom-end | 2 |
| 20080264273 | SNIPPER KNIFE STEM - A snipping apparatus includes a frame having an inlet end and an outlet end, a rotatable drum mounted in the frame, and a plurality of mounting rods fixed relative to the frame. The mounting rods extend between the inlet end and the outlet end and are aligned generally parallel to a longitudinal axis of the drum. The snipping apparatus also includes a plurality of resilient rods, each resilient rod having a first end, a second end and a curved portion positioned between the first end and the second end, and a plurality of snipper knives, such that each of the knives is coupled to a free end of one of the resilient rods. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090071349 | Tipping and tailing machine for vegetables - Vegetables, especially carrots, have both ends trimmed by this machine. The machine has an inclined table which forms a track and product guides in the form of troughs are attached to a belt so that the guides travel around the table when the belt is driven around the track. The guides are arranged with their long dimensions extending radially as they travel around the track. Carrots are fed into the trough-like guides at the upper side of the track and slide down the guides until they reach a stationary fence. The guides than travel past a blade which cuts off one end. As the guides continue to travel around the track, they change orientation so that the end of each guide which was at the top is then at the bottom, and the carrot slides to the other end of the guide before passing a second blade where the opposite end is cut off. The second blade may be one or a number of parallel blades so that the carrot can be cut into segments of desired length before those segments fall out of the machine at into a collection chamber. | 03-19-2009 |
| 099637000 | Stemming | 6 |
| 20090114105 | MACHINE FOR CUTTING AND EXTRACTING THE STEM OF VEGETABLES WITH TREE-LIKE STRUCTURE AND CUTTING AND EXTRACTION METHOD OF THE STEM WITH THIS MACHINE DESCRIPTION - This invention refers to a machine for the cutting and extraction of the stem of vegetables with tree-like structure and the cutting and extraction method of the stem with this machine which provides pieces branched into different sizes of the edible part of the vegetable. The machines is characterized by being constituted by at least one tray in which the vegetable to be cut is deposited which slides along a horizontal structure and by several vertical slide guides with several cutting devices for the separation of the useful tree-like material, a cutting device for the division of the stem into pieces and a cutting device for the separation of the stem from the edible part. It can be additionally equipped with knives arranged radially on the cutting head for the division of the tree-like material into portions. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20140208963 | SLICER - A strawberry huller includes a blade that is attached to a housing, with a plunger configured to rotate the blade with respect to the housing. After the blade is inserted into the strawberry the plunger is pressed, causing the blade to rotate about the stem. The rotation of the blade produces a circular cut around the stem for ideal separation of the hull. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20150101496 | GRAVITY WHEEL DE-STEMMER - A produce de-stemmer for generally symmetrical produce such as pepper pods that supports an item of produce in a propped orientation within a canister, a number of which are connected to a moving endless chain so that the canisters are cyclically inverted. A fixed support track resides below the moving canisters to support the item of produce so that a portion of the item is exposed during the canister travel. The exposed portion of the produce item is propelled into a cutting means which removes a desired portion of the produce item. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20160058064 | STRAWBERRY CAPPER - Devices and methods for mechanically removing portions of individual pieces of produce may include a conveyor configured to transport pieces of produce from an upstream end portion to a downstream end portion on a plurality of spaced, elongate teeth, and a blade assembly disposed at the downstream end portion of the conveyor. The blade assembly may include a cutting edge configured to pass generally parallel to the elongate teeth at a selected distance such that a desired portion of each piece of the retained produce is removed by the cutting edge. The disclosed devices and methods may be particularly well suited for removing the stem or cap portions of strawberries. | 03-03-2016 |
| 099638000 | And cluster breaking | 1 |
| 20110048253 | INERTISED DESTEMMING MACHINE - A destemming machine ( | 03-03-2011 |
| 099640000 | By rollers | 1 |
| 20080289515 | PEPPER DE-STEMMING - A way of dealing with challenges to the pepper processing industry and pepper growers is to mechanize pepper processing, including the de-stemming of whole peppers. The present example provides a method of or mechanically de-stemming whole peppers. The method provides for the recognition of a pepper's shoulder in order to generate a control signal to initiate a process to de-stem the pepper. In particular, several implementations of the method are provided that may include a mechanical system, a laser system, a machine vision system, a combination of a machine vision system and the laser system, and other equivalent implementations. Additionally disclosed, are methods of processing whole peppers utilizing automated de-stemming. | 11-27-2008 |
| 099643000 | With conveyor and positioning means | 2 |
| 20120174802 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FLORETING BROCCOLI - Broccoli heads are placed individually, with the stem down or laying horizontal, in a receiving cup in a loading position. A gripping mechanism engages the stem portion to secure the head in place. A positioning and cutting assembly adjusts the position of the receiving cup to a cutting position with the head down and stem up and rotates the receiving cup. The assembly includes a cutting mechanism having a blade that engages the rotating head to cut the florets. The blade cuts off the florets which fall to a first location where they are collected in a first collecting bin or by a first collection conveyor. The assembly next adjusts the receiving cup to a releasing position, whereupon the clamping mechanism disengages to release the stem, which falls to a second location where it is collected on a second collecting conveyor or in a second collecting bin. The assembly then returns the receiving cup to the loading position. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20160050967 | MACHINE FOR CLEANING UP FRUITS, PARTICULARLY STRAWBERRIES AND RADISHES - The present invention relates to a machine for cleaning up fruits, particularly strawberries and radishes, comprising: closed loop conveyor belt ( | 02-25-2016 |
