Patent ID: 7581491

Claim:
A machine for peeling and coring fruit, comprising: a mechanical feeder that centers fruit in a vertical direction; clamping and centering pliers arranged to receive the fruit from the feeder and configured for automatically clamping of the fruit while centering the fruit both radially and axially; plural fruit splitting blades arranged to receive the fruit from the pliers and to longitudinally split the fruit, including the fruit skin, into two halves; an aperture within each splitting blade; a kit removable installed within the aperture of each fruit splitting blade, each kit comprising a kit blade rotatable about an axis of rotation and each blade having an inner surface facing the axis of rotation and an outer surface spaced apart from the aperture of the fruit splitting blade at a distance to, upon rotation of the kit blade, separate fruit skin from an inside of the fruit, each kit being sized for one gauge of fruit, wherein, the feeder, pliers, fruit splitting blades, and kits are synchronizable with respect to each other, and are operatively interconnected to i) have a center of gravity of the fruit coincide with a center of rotation of the kit blades, and ii) subdivide the fruit into plural groups of different gauges.