Patents Assigned to Royal Champignon
  • Patent number: 5495797
    Abstract: A device for automatically processing mushrooms of given caliber Cal, the device including conveyor means (10, 20, 30) designed to bring said mushrooms to at least one processing station (100.sub.i) including detection means (110.sub.i) suitable for determining a parameter relating to each mushroom, a processing member (120.sub.i) for processing the mushrooms individually over a given processing distance C.sub.i, and control means (130.sub.i) suitable for bringing the processing member (120.sub.i) into operation after a response time Tr.sub.i and as a function of the parameter determined by said detection means (110.sub.i). According to the invention, said conveyor means include a "receiver" first set of belts (10) designed to receive the mushrooms at a given mean rate D not greater than min[1/Tr.sub.i ] and driven at a speed V.sub.0 not less than Cal.times.D, an "accumulator" second set of belts (20) driven at a speed V.sub.1 selected to be substantially equal to Cal.times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1996
    Assignee: S.A. Royal Champignon
    Inventor: Alain Meulnart
  • Patent number: 5477762
    Abstract: According to the invention, the cutting station also comprises, on the one hand, detection means capable of individually determining the length of the stem of each mushroom and, on the other hand, control means capable of adjusting the relative position of the cutting device and of the mushroom stem as a function of the length of stem determined by the said detection means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1995
    Assignee: S.A. Royal Champignon
    Inventor: Alain Meulnart
  • Patent number: 4680188
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a method for the improvement of the technical efficiency and of the quality of tinned mushrooms. This method is characterized by the fact that, in order to avoid blanching, the de-aeration of the mushrooms is achieved by treatment under a partial vacuum combined with an impregnation by means of a saline solution that makes a loss of water by osmosis possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1987
    Assignee: Royal Champignon
    Inventor: Claude Agulhon