Patent ID: 7597920

Claim:
A method to core pitted fruit or soft-cored fruit to remove a fruit pit or a soft core from fruit meat and to slice fruit meat comprising: holding the pitted fruit or the soft-cored fruit between a first pin and a second pin, the first pin and the second pin being linearly opposed along a common axis; pressing a core tube concentric with the first pin and the second pin through the held pitted fruit or the soft-cored fruit to capture the fruit pit or soft core within the internal region of the core tube while the fruit meat adheres to the external surface of the core tube; moving the adhered fruit meat from the external surface of the core tube and through a plurality of blades outwardly radiating beneath the second pin; expelling slices of the fruit meat into a reservoir beneath the plurality of blades upon passage of the adhering fruit meat through the plurality of blades; and ejecting the fruit pit or the soft core from the internal region of the core tube during movement of the adhering fruit meat into a separate receptacle.