The Procter Gamble Company

Jeffrey T Leitner

Ronald W Kock

Michael S Kolodesh

H Norman Reiboldt

Bruce A Pierson

Peter G Gosselin

David Albert Sabatelli

Vicki L Weber

William Willhite, Jr

A method of and apparatus for extracting the meat section and juice from a fruit while minimizing the amount of undesirable flavor components, e.g. peel oil, released from the fruit's peel. In one embodiment of the present invention, whole fruits are fed into a single station extraction apparatus that first cuts a equatorial groove in the fruit's peel while the fruit is rotated. A semicircular coring blade is then inserted into the groove and rotated 360.degree. which severs a spherical chunk of fruit meat from the peel. The small amount of fruit meat remaining on the peel's inner surface is then preferably extracted with a reaming element or fluid jet nozzle. In other particularly preferred embodiments, the grooving, coring, and reaming component mechanisms are incorporated into an indexing turret apparatus and a high-speed continuous motion turret apparatus.

Method of and apparatus for extracting juice and meat from a fruit

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Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Jeffrey T Leitner