Atlas Pacific Engineering Company

Christopher A Hildreth

David Bullock

Tim Vaughan

Dwight A Blickensderfer

Michael A Hoffman

John P Keeton

Christopher G Theis

Dwight Blickensderfer

David C Bullock

A system for automatically forming chunks and spears at high speed from unpeeled fruit items is provided. The fruit is sliced into unpeeled wedges. The unpeeled wedges are conveyed into a plurality of staggered transverse chunking blades, wherein the flesh, but not the peel, is cut sequentially from the center of each wedge outwardly, flattening each wedge. A peel removal knife is located to sever the peel of each wedge from the center outwardly after the transverse chunk cutting blades have cut the flesh. Spears may be formed by deleting some of the transverse chunking blades.

Fruit chunking and spear forming apparatus

Fruit chunking and spear forming method

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Pueblo, CO, United States of America

Christopher A Hildreth