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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2003
Applicants:
Narayan Dnyanadeo Patil, King City, CA (US);
Andrew Dave Fernandez, Salinas, CA (US);
Seth Marcus Goldsmith, Monterey, CA (US);
Edward James Wynn, Monterey, CA (US);
Inventors:
Narayan Dnyanadeo Patil, King City, CA (US);
Andrew Dave Fernandez, Salinas, CA (US);
Seth Marcus Goldsmith, Monterey, CA (US);
Edward James Wynn, Monterey, CA (US);
Assignee:
Dole Fresh Vegetables, Inc., Monterey, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B07B 1/00 (2006.01); B07B 13/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a system to separate shredded vegetable pieces, a slicer cuts a vegetable having leaves and a core into pieces to form a mixture of leaf and core pieces. The mixture then passes through a sorting mechanism that separates the core pieces from the mixture.