Patent ID: 7472648

Claim:
Device for separating the stalks of fruit such as cherries, grouped together in clusters, from one another at their joining point, of the type comprising at least one hydraulic circuit comprising: a main tank comprising a volume of neutral liquid and receiving the fruit to be treated, a centrifugal pump connected to the tank for sucking up the liquid and the fruit therefrom, and at least one downstream filtration device receiving the liquid and the fruit discharged by the pump and capable of separating the fruit from the liquid, wherein: the main tank has a base which converges downwards as far as a lower outlet orifice of this tank, the centrifugal pump comprises a housing and at least one mobile pumping wheel guided in rotation relative to the housing along an at least substantially vertical axis of rotation, the centrifugal pump has an axial suction inlet connected below the lower outlet orifice.