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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 1990
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1988
Peter G Gosselin, Springfield, MA (US);
Ronald W Kock, Wyoming, OH (US);
Michael S Kolodesh, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Jeffrey T Leitner, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Bruce A Pierson, Cincinnati, OH (US);
H Norman Reiboldt, College Corner, OH (US);
David A Sabatelli, Cleves, OH (US);
Vicki L Weber, Cincinnati, OH (US);
William Willhite, Jr, Cincinnati, OH (US);
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
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.