With Coacting Food-holder Patents (Class 99/504)
  • Patent number: 4421021
    Abstract: Improvements in a fruit processing juice extractor in which fruit is fed by a feed wheel to conveyors having elastomer cups for holding the fruits and moving them against a stationary cutting knife to provide severed sections which are transported to rotary reamers that remove the juice and juice-bearing material from the peel sections which are subsequently ejected by ejector wheels into a peel chute for delivery to a bar grid in the chute for diverting the peel sections directly to an outlet, or to a separator for separating the juice, pulp and rag from the peel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1983
    Assignee: Brown International Corporation
    Inventor: Franklin K. Holbrook