Abstract: Continuous destoning and halving machine comprises a conveyor belt wound as an endless ring and consisting essentially of a chain to each link of which there is externally hinged a half cup, provided in a position opposing said hinging point with an idle roller sliding on a rail in order to be kept horizontal, during processing of the fruits or inclined for discharging purposes; on the horizontal part of the conveyor being provided loading station consisting of a fixed cylindrical peripheral duct there being provided inside said duct and fixed to the driven shaft of the conveyor a group of radial dividing elements each of which faces, during operation, to a single hole through which the first piece of fruit of each alignment is discharged singly on to the underlying half cup; the processing station consists of lower and upper cylindrical crowns moving rigidly with the driven ring gear and supporting cooperating vertically sliding mandrels aligned two by two.