초록 ▼

A method of and apparatus for extracting the meat section and juice from a fruit while minimizing the amount of undesirable flavor components, e.g. peel oil, released from the fruit\s peel. In one embodiment of the present invention, whole fruits are fed into a single station extraction apparatus th

A method of and apparatus for extracting the meat section and juice from a fruit while minimizing the amount of undesirable flavor components, e.g. peel oil, released from the fruit\s peel. In one embodiment of the present invention, whole fruits are fed into a single station extraction apparatus that first cuts a equatorial groove in the fruit\s peel while the fruit is rotated. A semicircular coring blade is then inserted into the groove and rotated 360°which severs a spherical chunk of fruit meat from the peel. The small amount of fruit meat remaining on the peel\s inner surface is then preferably extracted with a reaming element or fluid jet nozzle. In other particularly preferred embodiments, the grooving, coring, and reaming component mechanisms are incorporated into an indexing turret apparatus and a high-speed continuous motion turret apparatus.

대표청구항 ▼

A method of extracting fruit meat from a fruit having an outer peel, said method comprising the steps of: (a) grasping said fruit with grasping means; (b) rotating said fruit; (c) cutting an equatorial groove in said outer peel of said fruit, thereby separating said peel into a first peel half and a

A method of extracting fruit meat from a fruit having an outer peel, said method comprising the steps of: (a) grasping said fruit with grasping means; (b) rotating said fruit; (c) cutting an equatorial groove in said outer peel of said fruit, thereby separating said peel into a first peel half and a second peel half; (d) inserting a coring element into said equatorial groove; (e) rotating said coring element, thereby severing a major portion of said fruit meat from said first and second peel halves, a minor portion of said fruit meat remaining on the inner surface of said first and second peel halves; and (f) collecting said major portion of said fruit meat.