WO1988007333A1 - Appareil de conditionnement de fruits - Google Patents

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WO1988007333A1
WO1988007333A1 PCT/AU1988/000076 AU8800076W WO8807333A1 WO 1988007333 A1 WO1988007333 A1 WO 1988007333A1 AU 8800076 W AU8800076 W AU 8800076W WO 8807333 A1 WO8807333 A1 WO 8807333A1
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Thomas George Franklin
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
    • A23N—MACHINES OR APPARATUS FOR TREATING HARVESTED FRUIT, VEGETABLES OR FLOWER BULBS IN BULK, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PEELING VEGETABLES OR FRUIT IN BULK; APPARATUS FOR PREPARING ANIMAL FEEDING- STUFFS
    • A23N4/00—Machines for stoning fruit or removing seed-containing sections from fruit, characterised by their stoning or removing device
    • A23N4/02—Machines for stoning fruit or removing seed-containing sections from fruit, characterised by their stoning or removing device for stoning fruit
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
    • A23N—MACHINES OR APPARATUS FOR TREATING HARVESTED FRUIT, VEGETABLES OR FLOWER BULBS IN BULK, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PEELING VEGETABLES OR FRUIT IN BULK; APPARATUS FOR PREPARING ANIMAL FEEDING- STUFFS
    • A23N7/00—Peeling vegetables or fruit

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  • THIS INVENTION relates to fruit processing apparatus.
  • the manual process consists of cutting portions of the mango from either side of the seed along the larger axis of the fruit and scooping the flesh out of the two resultant cheeks of fruit.
  • the separation of the side sections or cheeks from a central portion containing the seed may be done mechanically by a known apparatus which conveys the fruit between two resilient belts to a pair of spaced circular cutters on a driven shaft, but the removal of the flesh from the cheek sections remains laborious and time consuming.
  • the portions of fruit thereby produced are likely to be of irregular shape and generally unattractive for presentation and marketing purposes, and a significant amount of the flesh is often left on the skin.
  • the present invention has been devised with the general object of providing apparatus for the efficient processing of fruit including, but not restricted to, mangoes.
  • a further object achievable in preferred embodiments of the invention is to provide such apparatus which removes the seed or core of mangoes or other fruit in such a way as to reduce the amount of flesh of the fruit excised with the seed or core.
  • a fruit processing apparatus including: a frame; a curved peeling knife mounted on the frame; conveying means for engaging sections of fruit and moving them in sequence towards the peeling blade; and guide means on the frame for guiding each fruit section to bring the leading end of its peel close to the convex face of the curved peeling blade; the curvature of the peeling blade substantially conforming to the cross-sectional configuration of the peel of the fruit being processed; and the conveying means being arranged to urge the fruit section past the peeling blade to separate its peel from its flesh.
  • FIG. 1 is a partly broken-away front elevational view of a mango processing apparatus according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a plan view of the apparatus, its carrier arm being moved from its operative position to the inoperative position shown, in part, in broken outline in FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a perspective detail drawing of the peeling knife assembly of the apparatus;
  • FIG. 4 is a front elevational view of the mango seeder of the apparatus
  • FIG. 5 is a perspective detail drawing of the cutters of the seeder; and FIG. 6 is a detail side view of a modified form of the slicing blades of the apparatus shown in FIGS. 1, 2 and 3.
  • the mango processor shown in the drawings has a drive housing 10 enclosing an electric drive motor and reduction gearing (not shown) for driving the shaft 11 of a concave profiled roller 12 located in front of the housing.
  • a carrier arm 13 has one apertured end freely rotatable on the roller shaft 11 between a pair of spacer collars 14 on the shaft, so that it may be swung from its normal floating operative position to an inoperative position shown in part in broken outline in FIG. 1.
  • An endless transversely cleated belt 15 of rubber or like material is engaged in a peripheral recess 16 formed about the middle part of the concave roller 12.
  • This belt is carried from the concave roller 12 to be led about a first idler roller 17, a second idler roller 18, a third idler roller 19, an idler sprocket 20 and back down to the concave roller 12.
  • the first and third idler rollers 17 and 19 and the idler sprocket 20 are rotatable on axles 21 fixed to and extending perpendicularly from the carrier arm 13, the second idler roller 18 near the distal end of the carier arm being mounted for adjustment to vary the tension of the belt 15.
  • the idler sprocket 20 meshes with the transversely cleated belt.
  • a conveyor 23 leading towards the concave roller 12 includes an endless belt 24 mounted on end rollers 25, the axle 26 of one of which is driven from the drive mechanism within the housing 10.
  • the conveyor belt travels over a frame 27 the supports of which include a bracket 28 extending from the housing 10.
  • Parallel slicing blades 29 are located between the end of the conveyor 23 and the concave roller 12. These blades are mounted on a sleeve (not shown) engaged on a spindle 30 projecting perpendicularly from the front of the housing 10. The blades are maintained in spaced relationship by spacer collars 31 on the sleeve and are removably secured by a knurled nut 32 on the threaded end of the sleeve, which is removably secured by a second nut 32a engaging the threaded end of the spindle. A transverse locating bolt 33 through the blades, with spacer collars 34 between the blades, maintains the blades in alignment. The middle blades have points 35 projecting onto the conveyor belt 24.
  • the top or cutting edges of the blades 29 curve more or less arcuately down towards the roller 12 and terminate above a peeling blade 36, curved arcuately from side to side to approach closely the concavity of the roller 12.
  • the peeling blade 36 as shown particularly in FIG. 3, is replaceably fitted to an arcuate blade holder 37 the ends of which are fixed to uprights 38 which are vertically slidable in channelled posts 39 and releasably secured by set screws 40.
  • the lower parts of the uprights 38 are rigidly interconnected by a curved bottom bar 41. From the middle of the blade holder 37 a main peel guide tongue 42 extends downwardly with a curvature more or less parallel to the belt 15 about the roller 12.
  • the main peel guide tongue 42 leads to a secondary peel guide tongue 43 carried by a post 44 and curving under the bottom of the concave roller 12.
  • the channelled posts 39 supporting the peeling blade assembly and the post 44 supporting the secondary peel guide tongue 43 are mounted on a bracket 45 fixed to and projecting forwards from a traveller 45a within, and projecting forwardly from, the housing 10.
  • the bracket 45 may be advanced or retracted adjustably relative to the traveller 45a, fixing screws 45b passing through slots in the bracket and engaging in the traveller.
  • Mango cheeks that is to say sections of the fruit cut (as hereinafter described) from a central section containing the seed, are fed onto the conveyor belt 24, and are indicated in broken outline at 47.
  • the conveyor brings the mango cheeks in sequence between it and the run of the cleated belt 15 from the second idler roller 18 to the third idler roller 19.
  • the conveyor belt and cleated belt moving on convergent paths in the directions indicated by arrows in FIG. 1, bring each mango cheek 47 down onto the parallel blades 29 which are forced through the flesh of the fruit and to its peel.
  • the peel is brought into contact with the downward run of the cleated belt 15 from the idler sprocket 20 to the concave roller 12 and the mango cheek is swept down past the peeling blade 36.
  • the peeling blade 37 and the peel guide tongues 42 and 43 may be moved closer to or further from the cleated belt 15 about the concave roller 12, to vary the thickness of peel removed from the flesh of the mangoes.
  • the mango cheeks may be cut and fed onto the conveyor 23 by hand; or it may be preferred to use to a mango seeder as shown more or less diagramatically in FIGS. 4 and 5, to which reference is now made.
  • This device includes a vertical conveyor 50 having a frame 51 carrying bearings 52 for the axles 53 of a pair of spaced parallel upper drums 54 and for the axles 55 of a pair of similar lower drums 56.
  • Each of the drums includes a spaced pair of pulley wheels 57 mounted on its axle,, the pulleys of each upper d-rum 54 and those of the corresponding lower drum 56 being engaged by a pair of endless belts 58 interconnected by a series of fairly closely spaced resiliently flexible bars 59, which may suitably be of a plastics material.
  • the axles 53 of the two upper drums carry sprockets 60 which are counter- rotated by an endless chain drive 61 from a motor-driven drive sprocket 62.
  • Mangoes are fed manually or otherwise to the conveyor 50, the flexible bars 59 of which bend to accept their
  • the conveyor carries the mangoes downwardly in sequence to a pair of oppositely reciprocated seeder blades 64, driven by a motor 65 connected to the blades at one end, their other ends being slidable in a bearing block 66.
  • the blades 64 With serrated cutting edges, are closely adjacent except for their middle parts 67 which are bowed outwardly, away from each other.
  • Each of the mangoes 63 is forced by the conveyor 50 past these blades which are rapidly reciprocated through small opposed strokes, so that a central seed section is excised from the mango to fall through a central chute 68 into a receptacle 69.
  • the two cheek sections of the mango descend a pair of ramps 70 to a pair of oppositely travelling belt conveyors, which are the conveyors 23 of two of the processing devices described with reference to FIGS. 1, 2 and 3 of the drawings.
  • the single mango seeder then, will deliver mango cheeks simultaneously to two slicing and peeling machines as before described.
  • the contoured seeder blades will enable a greater recovery of the flesh of the fruit than is obtained by parallel cuts at opposite sides of the mango seeds.
  • the excised central sections containing the mango seeds may be delivered to a brush processor (not shown) of well-known type, for recovering any available flesh of the fruit for pulp.
  • a brush processor (not shown) of well-known type, for recovering any available flesh of the fruit for pulp.
  • the slicing blades 29 have been found to operate satisfactorily on mangoes without sharpened cutting edges, but such edges may be required for the processing of other fruits.
  • The- functions of these blades includes that of guiding the fruit sections from the conveyor 23 to the peeling blade 36 by their contact with the inside of the fruit peel, and their number may be varied as required.
  • the fixed slicing blades 29 described and illustrated may be replaced by disc cutters 71, as shown in FIG. 6. These disc cutters are fixed on the spindle 30 which, in this case, is rotated, driving the cutters to assist in carrying the fruit to the curved peeling blade 36.
  • the disc cutters vary in diameter to accommodate themselves to the curvature of the peel of the fruit and to that of the peeling blade.

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Un appareil de conditionnement de fruits comprend un premier transporteur à bande (23) pour des fruits (47) dont on a extrait les pépins ou le noyau et un second transporteur à bande ou transporteur à bande à crampons (15), destiné à agir en interaction avec les fruits placés sur le premier transporteur (23) et destiné à les acheminer sur des couteaux à découper (29) qui découpent la chair des fruits en morceaux (47a) et qui ensuite, en appuyant contre l'intérieur de la peau (47b) du fruit, servent d'organes de guidage pour amener l'extrémité de tête du fruit (47) au niveau et au-delà d'un couteau à éplucher incurvé (36), lequel sépare la peau de la chair, un organe (42, 43) de guidage des lambeaux de peau étant prévu pour éloigner les morceaux de peau des morceaux de chair et les conduire jusqu'à leur point de déchargement. Les fruits peuvent être divisés en moitiés à conditionner et en une section centrale extraite par un organe de dénoyautage ou d'épépinage composé d'un transporteur double (50) sur lequel reposent les morceaux de fruits et qui les achemine en séquence au niveau et au-delà d'une paire de couteaux de dénoyautage ou d'épépinage adjacents (64) présentant des parties intermédiaires arqués vers l'extérieur de façon à correspondre symétriquement (67), les couteaux étant entraînés par un moteur (65) dans un mouvement alternatif antagoniste, la section centrale extraite avançant le long d'une goulotte (68), les moitiés le long de rampes (70).
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