Abstract: An avocado processor extracts the pulp from the fruit. The avocados are heated, cooled, sliced in half, depitted, and squeezed all while continuously traveling along a conveyor path. The squeezing is handled by V-shaped finger assembly. Guides force the fingers to close as they move along the path.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 24, 2008
Publication date:
September 24, 2009
Applicant:
AVOMEX, INC.
Inventors:
Hugo Rolando Marquez Paredes, Paul E. Oehler