Having Irregularly Shaped Bottom Patents (Class 99/633)
  • Patent number: 10820735
    Abstract: A food processing device includes a gear housing, a frame arm extending from the gear housing on a first lateral side thereof, and a drive screw operably coupled on respective ends thereof with the gear housing and a support end. The device further includes a retention hub operably coupled with the gear housing and extending generally parallel with and adjacent a portion of drive screw and an input hub extending from the gear housing opposite the drive screw and the retention hub and operably engaged with both the drive screw and the retention hub to drive synchronized rotational movement thereof with respect to the gear housing. A carrier is slidably coupled with the frame arm and is further operably engaged with the drive screw such that the rotational movement thereof drives corresponding linear movement of the carrier along the frame arm. The carrier defines at least one cutting implement thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Kaitlyn M. Benoit, Michael P. Conti, John Dykhouse, Timothy J. Hicks, Mitchell L. Robertson
  • Patent number: 10040164
    Abstract: A drag and/or dip finishing machine has at least one workpiece holder for the releasable fastening of the workpieces to be machined and a container, disposed beneath the workpiece holder, for accommodating the grinding and/or polishing granules, wherein the workpiece holder and the container are movable relative to each other in that at least the container is rotationally driven. The container has a chamber, which extends around the whole of the periphery thereof and is fluidically connected to the inside, accommodating the grinding and/or polishing granules, of the container, at least on a lower portion thereof, the chamber being equipped with a liquid discharge unit in order to be able to discharge the machining agent from the chamber in the event of an excess of machining agent in the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: OTEC Prëzisionzfiniah GmbH
    Inventor: Helmut Gegenheimer
  • Patent number: 7430958
    Abstract: A double blade peeling device for vegetable and fruit comprises a handle attached to a vegetable and fruit retaining member and a body of screw, the handle can drive internal gears to rotate, so as to make the retaining member and the body of screw to rotate as well. The body of screw, which is provided with two screw threads, drives upper and lower blade carriers to move upward and downward oppositely, such that the blades mounted on the upper and lower blade carriers move downward and upward respectively, contact the rotating food frictionally, and peel vegetable or fruit from upside and underside simultaneously. When two blade carriers move to the intermediate position to complete the peeling action, the two blade carriers open through wedge in blade carrier devices, two blades leave the surface of food, the lower blade carrier devices disengage with the body of screw. The body of screw drives upper blade carrier device to press the lower blade carrier device to move downward unceasingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Inventor: Yan Kwong Wong
  • Patent number: 7270052
    Abstract: A fruit skin peeling device is disclosed. The device comprises a base, a driving means, a rotating disc, a plurality of lateral plates and a top cover, the base having a top and a lower cavity, wherein the base is divided into an upper chamber and a lower chamber and the lower chamber encloses the driving means having an axle protruded at the lower chamber and connected to the rotating disc, the bottom section of the upper chamber is provided with a debris opening and the lateral plates are position around the circular side of the upper chamber, characterized in that the rotating disc and the lateral plates are mounted with circular toothed-blade, the driving means drives the rotating disc to rotate such that fruits or the like placed in the upper chamber is driven to rotate and in contact with the circular toothed-blade to peel off the skin of the fruit or the like, and the peeled skins are discarded through the debris opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Inventor: Kuan-Chih Lin
  • Patent number: 5950529
    Abstract: A vegetable peeling device for peeling vegetables. The vegetable peeling device includes a housing has a lower base portion, a gear housing portion, and a drum portion. The drum portion of the housing has an inner surface defining a reservoir. The drum portion of the housing has a top opening into the reservoir of the drum portion and a bottom opening providing a passage between the reservoir of the drum portion and the lower base portion of the housing. The drum portion has a tubular inlet spout into the reservoir. A spinning plate is rotatably mounted in the lower base portion of the housing adjacent the bottom opening of the drum portion of the housing. The spinning plate has an elongate bumper ridge upwardly extending therefrom. The inner surface of the drum portion of the housing comprising an abrasive surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Inventor: Lloyd T. Molloy
  • Patent number: 5752436
    Abstract: A potato peeling apparatus includes a drum-type batch peeler having a rotary plate and three vertically adjustable, cylindrical liners. Each liner has a different abrasive material and a separate drive for moving the liner between a raised and a lowered position. The liners have different diameters to allow positioning of the three liners inside each other in raised or lowered positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1998
    Assignee: UTZ Quality Foods, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey E. Fuhrman
  • Patent number: 5662034
    Abstract: A potato peeling system includes a drum-type batch peeler, an unpeeled potato infeed assembly upstream from the batch peeler and a peeled potato discharge assembly downstream from the batch peeler. The batch peeler includes a rotary plate and a vertically adjustable cylindrical liner with a number of vertically spaced bands of different abrasive material. A drive moves the liner up and down to position a selected abrasive band above the plate for peeling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1997
    Assignee: UTZ Quality Foods, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey E. Fuhrman
  • Patent number: 5617783
    Abstract: A peeler uses parallel inclined valleys in a cylindrical interior surface to serve as channels. The parallel valleys are between parallel ridges or ribs. A rotary disk having a series of bumps and an abrasive surface is rotated so as to abrasively remove an outer portion of agricultural products. The debris corresponding to removed portions is urged downwardly and out a peripheral debris exit by the ridges as rotation takes place. A wear rim around the disk has an upper surface and the debris exit is between the wear rim and the interior surface. The interior surface is on a liner having a lower surface. The upper surface of the wear rim is no greater than 1/4 inch higher than a lower edge of the liner such that a restricted passage therebetween has a height no greater than 1/4 inch. An expansion zone is just below the restricted passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1997
    Assignee: Beeler Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael L. Beeler
  • Patent number: 4442764
    Abstract: The machine comprises a container supported by settable legs so as to make the machine perfectly vertical on its support. The container contains a filter opening into a discharge duct and supporting at its upper portion a cylinder containing at its base a motor and reduction gear assembly driving a central vertical shaft, said assembly being covered by a fixed bottom formed with a radial opening connected to a nozzle emerging above the aforementioned filter. The machine has a disc having at least one boss in relief driven by the shaft and coated on its upper portion with an abrasive layer. The cylinder is closed by a water tight cover through which the products to be cleaned have been introduced while said products are discharged after having been cleaned through a door placed in front of a discharge chute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 17, 1984
    Assignee: Dito-Sama
    Inventors: Pierre H. Bos, Joel R. Musseau, Claude Rochez