ES337021A1 - Improvements in machines for decapitating and tailing silver-skin onions - Google Patents

Abstract

Machine for topping and uncooking white onions of the type comprising: a feeding way; a body provided with slits, against which the onions are pushed, so that their heads or tails come out through said slits; a knife device, on the outside of the body provided with slits, which tops and descolates the onions when they appear through said slits, and a means of evacuation of the onions so desmochadodas and descoladas, characterized in that it consists of an inner, vertical and rotating envelope, in which the onions are introduced, and which is provided with spikes, very elastic, or analogous elements, arranged on its outer face of an opening, like a slot, located in its bottom and intended for the passage of onions; of a vertical, static cylinder, which receives the onions, when they pass through said opening, which surrounds the inner envelope and its spikes or analogous elements narrowly and concentrically, and which has a spiral path, of reduced pitch, directed upwards on which onions are pushed by the spikes or analogous elements, upwards, having been provided in the cylinder, just above the spiral path, slits that extend in an upward direction; a rotating frame, equipped with blades suitable for topping and desiccate the onions, and an opening in the upper part of the static cylinder that discharges the treated onions on an evacuation medium. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)