Patent ID: 6948844

Claim:
Apparatus for stuffing pitted olives with an edible filling, said apparatus comprising: (a) a support frame; (b) a pair of drum holders rotatably mounted to the support frame, with the rotational axes of said drum holders being substantially parallel and of generally horizontal orientation; (c) drive means mounted to the frame and adapted to rotate the drum holders simultaneously about their rotational axes; and (d) a pair of drums, each drum being associated with one of the drum holders and: d.1 having an inner end, an outer end, and a longitudinal axis; d.2 being mountable at its inner end to its associated drum holder, with its longitudinal axis substantially coinciding with the drum holder's rotational axis; d.3 having an opening at its outer end; and d.4 having a lid for sealingly closing said opening; wherein the drive means includes an electric motor having an output shaft, and wherein the drive means further comprises: (e) a motor pulley fixedly mounted on the output shaft of the motor; (f) two drive pulleys, each of said drive pulleys being coaxially and fixedly mounted on an associated one of the drum holders; and (c) a drive belt deployed around the motor pulley and the drive pulleys, such that rotation of the output shaft will cause simultaneous rotation of the drum holders about their rotational axes.