Classifications

• • 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
  • A23N5/00—Machines for hulling, husking or cracking nuts
  • A23N5/03—Machines for hulling, husking or cracking nuts for coconuts

Definitions

• THIS INVENTION relates to the processing of coconuts
• Copra is the dried meat of a coconut.
• Coconut oil is
• the oil can be used in the production of soap,
• coconut-stearin pressing, called coconut-stearin, can be used as animal fodder.
• the coconut has a rind, over, typically, 2.5 to 5 cm of fibrous husk
• coconuts are husked, opened by splitting or cutting the woody shell
• coir may be made into mats, ropes, brooms and other products.
• the woody shell can be carbonised for use as a fuel or otherwise used for
• the husk and woody shell is typically
• the invention achieves its object in the provision of a
• coconuts are fed serially via a conveyor to a portioning
• the coconut meat is removed from respective portions.
• the method is one wherein the husks
• the method may additionally be operated
• the method may use water jets to
• the method may be operated to remove
• the invention additionally provides an apparatus for the
• a conveyor feeds coconuts serially to a coconut divider
• a coconut divider sections coconuts into coconut
• a meat remover removes coconut meat from the coconut
• a delivery means collects the removed coconut meat
• the apparatus is one wherein there is a burner
• the apparatus is one
• the dryer Preferably the dryer
• the copra is preferably reduced to
• sectioning with water jets might utilise a pulse into the hollow of a
• the jet might be
• the husk or coir is preferably separated from
• the hard woody shell also by use of a water jet.
• the coconut meat which may be removed as a shell can be any suitable coconut meat which may be removed as a shell.
• the thus prepared coconut meat may be dried, to be used as
• the shavings from the planner may be fed to the
• FIGS. 1 and 2 show schematically, in a generalised plan
• FIG. 3 shows in an edge elevation, a detailed view of an
• FIG. 4 shows an alternate form of feeder to deliver
• coconuts from a silo for processing in accordance with the invention coconuts from a silo for processing in accordance with the invention
• FIG. 5 is a plan view of an alternate means of an
• FIGS. 6 and 7 is seen detail showing how the coir might
• FIG. 8 shows in elevation a mechanism by which coconut
• meat shells might be processed to remove their skin, in accordance
• FIGS. 1 and 2 a holding container, silo, storage
• bin 10 (hereinafter referred to simply as a bin for
• coconuts which are to be processed.
• the coconuts may be fed or
• two co-planar wheels 13,14 (hereinafter referred to
• a coconut such as coconut
• the conveyor 1 1 may be a cup conveyor
• a cleaving, cutting or splitting device such as a saw or water
• the husks can be collected on a conveyor 28, after removal from the
• wheels 1 3, 14 by levers, prongs, ejectors or ramps 29, 30 which
• the collected husks can be bought to a high
• the husks can be collected on a conveyor 37 for delivery to a furnace.
• the bin 10 may
• chute or sluice 48 may be provided as a means by which to carry
• coconut meat remover 23 may feed two water jets 49, 50, oriented
• the coconut husks In the particular embodiment of FIG. 2, the coconut husks
• conveyor 31 On conveyor 31 are carried or conveyed, open side down, beneath an
• stabiliser 52 which may be a belt or
• the hooks 15, 16 may be arrayed over the
• coconuts fed thereto As a coconut can be typically from 30-40 cm on one dimension, and 25 to 35 cm transverse to it, some
• FIG. 4 In the particular embodiment of FIG. 4 is seen an
• the base of the bin may feed to a delivery chute 55, which may be
• periphery may be segmented or pocketed to collect and carry
• FIG. 5 In the particular embodiment of FIG. 5 is seen an
• Two chains 59, 60 may be driven around sprockets to
• the sprockets 63,64,65 may be fixed.
• sprockets 66, 67 may be spring loaded to keep tension in the chain
• the other chain may be driven by a chain 69 off a motor 70.
• the other chain can be
• the chains may be fitted with
• cup shaped elements which complement the shape of a coconut.
• the chains may be mounted within these cups.
• the chains may be
• zone 61 there may be three
• tier system there will may three removal prongs 74, 75, 76 oriented
• FIGS. 6 and 7 In the particular embodiment of FIGS. 6 and 7 is seen in
• action of the high pressure jet 81 can be operative to release or
• shells 86 are transported by a flat conveyor 87 to a planner or shaver
• trough conveyor 88 can bear down on the coconut meat shells, with
• the shavings may be collected and fed to the
• the shaved coconut meat 93 can be delivered to a
• the water jets at 23 in FIG. 1 may be the standard jets
• the water jets may be operated
• water can be effective to blow the shell of meat out of its
• the water jets might be switched, to pulse a
• the divider which portions or halves the coconuts may be
• the dryer which converts the meat to a final form may be
• the invention may be equally applied to other nuts where
• a flesh or meat is to be released from a woody shell, with appropriate
• the husked nuts might then be processed through a portioning device

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• Meat, Egg Or Seafood Products (AREA)

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