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A method of and apparatus for extracting the fruit meat section of a fruit, and subsequently separating and removing the sectional membranes and seeds from the fruit meat section to produce free juice and an abundance of unruptured juice sacs. In one embodiment of the present invention, whole fruits

A method of and apparatus for extracting the fruit meat section of a fruit, and subsequently separating and removing the sectional membranes and seeds from the fruit meat section to produce free juice and an abundance of unruptured juice sacs. In one embodiment of the present invention, whole fruits are fed into a dual turret extraction apparatus that includes a plurality of matched resilient cups for holding the fruit. After the fruit is cut in half, the halves are indexed through successive coring and reaming stations. The coring station includes a coring element that cleanly extracts a hemisperical section of fruit meat from the peel. The reaming station includes a reaming element that gently removes any fruit meat remaining within the peel. The fruit meat sections are then fed into rag separator apparatus that uses a rotating screen drum and a counterrotating shaft having striker bars projecting radially therefrom to strip the juice sacs from the sectional membranes. The resultant juice/juice sac slurry is then deposited on the upper surface of an inclined vibrating bed that causes the seeds to bounce and tumble down the bed while the juice sacs travel up the bed to a point where they are collected.

대표청구항 ▼

A method of extracting fruit meat from a fruit, said method comprising the steps of: (a) loading a fruit into a first resilient cup; (b) grasping said fruit between said first resilient cup and a second resilient cup; (c) slicing said fruit into two approximately equal halves, each fruit half having

A method of extracting fruit meat from a fruit, said method comprising the steps of: (a) loading a fruit into a first resilient cup; (b) grasping said fruit between said first resilient cup and a second resilient cup; (c) slicing said fruit into two approximately equal halves, each fruit half having an outer peel and an exposed fruit meat section; (d) placing said fruit half adjacent to a coring element having a sharp peripheral edge; and (e) pivoting said coring element, whereby said sharp peripheral edge of said coring element cuts through said exposed inner meat section of said fruit half and thereby extracts a major portion of said fruit meat section from said fruit half, a minor portion of said fruit meat section remaining within said outer peel.