Apparatus for facilitating separation of peel from fruit
CA 1060304 A · Owner: Tree Top · Inventors: Stokes, Thomas P.
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An apparatus for facilitating separation of peel from fruit in which the fruit is sequentially loaded into a plurality of pockets extending around the circumference of a vertical, rotating reel. The reel is mounted in a tank holding a vaustic treating solution so that the fruit in the pockets is carried downwardly into the solution as the reel rotates. Incoming fruit is conveyed into a receiving tank containing the solution so that the solution cushions the fall of the fruit from the conveyor. The solution is heated and recirculated into the receiving tank thereby carrying the fruit over a weir and into the pockets in the reel. The pockets are formed by a plurality of spaced apart paddles …
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- Granted August 14, 1979. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended August 14, 1996.
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