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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 1979
Filed:
Jul. 21, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jesus A Silvestrini, Godoy Cruz, AR;
Assignee:
California Processing Machinery, San Ramon, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
99551 ; 426485 ;
Abstract
In a peach bisecting and pitting machine in which the fruit is gripped by a deformable gripper during the pitting operation, apparatus is disclosed for sensing the presence or absence of a fruit within such gripper and for preventing the gripping deformation of the gripper when no fruit is present during the operation of the pitting machine.