Patent ID: 6655615
Filing Date: 2003-12-02
Classification: A23N

Abstract:
An apparatus for comminuting organic substances, in particular for tearing apart fruits, including a stand (11), a tearing bed (15) supported in the stand (11) and having one surface as a travel path for the fruits (3), which path has tearing elements (4) and next to them openings (16) for the comminuted substances (8), the tearing elements (4) protruding above the travel path by a height (H), and including means (5, 13, 33), supported in the stand (11), for delivering the organic substances (3) to the tearing bed (15), and drive means (12) for generating a relative motion between the tearing elements (4) and the delivery means (5) and the organic substances (3), characterized in that the openings (16) in the tearing bed (15) for the comminuted substances (8) are disposed upstream of the tearing elements (4), in terms of the direction of relative motion (v), at a spacing (s) which is less than the height (H) of the tearing elements (4) above the travel path.