Patent ID: 6125742
Filing Date: 2000-10-03
Classification: A23N

Abstract:
In an apparatus for coring and seed celling fruit having a hollow, cylindrical seed celler support tube having proximal and distal ends, seed celler knife means carried near said distal end of said seed celler support tube, a hollow, cylindrical coring tube for holding and rotating said fruit having proximal and distal ends, said coring tube extending through said seed celler support tube, the distal end of said coring tube extending beyond the distal end of said seed celler support tube, at least one turning fin carried by the distal end of said coring tube, the improvement comprising:first drive means connected to said coring tube for rotating said coring tube through a predetermined first number of revolutions at a predetermined first rotational speed,second drive means connected to said seed celler support tube for rotating said seed celler support tube and said seed celler knife means,and wherein said second drive means causes said seed celler support tube and said seed celler knife means to rotate at a second rotational speed different from said first rotational speed during a portion of said first number of revolutions, thereby imparting relative rotational motion between said seed celler knife means and said coring tube, thereby severing the seed cell from said fruit.