Abstract: Apparatus for extracting pomegranate seeds from pomegranates including a pomegranate breaker operative for breaking open pomegranates generally without cutting pomegranate seeds at the interior of the pomegranates and a pomegranate seed extractor operative to engage broken open pomegranates for separating the pomegranate seeds from other parts of the pomegranates.

Abstract: A fruit coring system for a coconut having a central cavity in which the system includes a coring assembly and a corkscrew assembly. The coring assembly uses a pipe-like segment having a length proportioned to a depth sufficient to reach the central cavity of the fruit, the segment having a serrated first end and an open second end having internal threadings. Lateral arms extend from an outer surface of the pipe-like segment, for facilitating its selectable rotation after the corkscrew assembly has positioned the pipe-like assembly upon the fruit to be cored. The corkscrew assembly includes a corkscrew proper and a boss proportioned for threadable engagement with the threaded inner surface of the pipe-like segment. with a second end of the elongate member. A handle of the corkscrew assembly is integral to a side of the boss opposite the corkscrew proper elongate member.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming a food material, such as an apparatus for encrusting a filling material such as bean jam, where production cost is reduced because one driving motor and one rotating shaft control the opening and closing movements of a cutting apparatus and the lifting and lowering movements of the cutting apparatus and a food-receiving member. A simplified control system is also provided.

Abstract: A mechanical harvester for harvesting produce with a core planted in a field is provided. The mechanical harvester includes a chassis, a positioning apparatus, a decoring device, and a transport assembly. The positioning apparatus is connected to the chassis and configured to position the produce in the ground for harvesting and decoring. The decoring device is connected to the positioning apparatus and configured to sever the core of the produce while the produce is in the ground. The transport assembly is connected to the chassis and configured to lift the cut produce from the ground and transport the cut produce to a processing unit or a storage container.

Abstract: The hard shells or hulls of whole nuts are effectively cracked and separated from the nut meat by propelling and impacting the whole nuts at a predetermined trajectory velocity against an adjustable impacting plate set at the appropriate impacting angle. By controlling the manner in which the whole nuts impact against the impacting plate, the fracturing of the hard shell may be controlled so as to optimize the whole nut meat recovery while minimizing the production of split nut meats. A variable speed impeller in combination with adjustability of the impacting plate optimizes the nut cracking and nut meat separation for any type of whole nut. An orderly sequential feed of whole nuts to an off-set feed zone of rotating impellers equipped with vanes having a catching section and an accelerating section at a regulated rotational speed effectively propels the whole nuts against the adjustable impacting plate.

Abstract: Apparatus for extracting pomegranate seeds from pomegranates including a pomegranate breaker operative for breaking open pomegranates generally without cutting pomegranate seeds at the interior of the pomegranates and a pomegranate seed extractor operative to engage broken open pomegranates for separating the pomegranate seeds from other parts of the pomegranates.

Abstract: Apparatus for extracting pomegranate seeds from pomegranates including a pomegranate breaker operative for breaking open pomegranates generally without cutting pomegranate seeds at the interior of the pomegranates and a pomegranate seed extractor operative to engage broken open pomegranates for separating the pomegranate seeds from other parts of the pomegranates.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for removing a core from harvested heading plants comprising a stalk and, on said stalk, a head, such as in particular broccoli and cauliflower. The device is provided with positioning means for positioning the plant, which positioning means comprise clamping means for clamping the plant stalk therebetween, and with separating means. The separating means comprise at least one separating element which is movable between a first position and a second position. In the first position the separating element extends on one side of the stalk and in the second position the separating element extends on the other side of the stalk such that after moving the separating element between the first position and the second position, a separation between the stalk with the core and the remaining part of the plant during movement of the separating element from the first position to the second position.

Abstract: In an automated method for handling and packaging agriculturally grown food items, at least a portion of the exterior of the food item is removed to expose its interior region. From the exposed interior region, a number of food segments are extruded. For example, cylinders of pineapple or watermelon may be extruded. The extruded food segments are then inserted into a number of packaging units, such as single-serving tubes. The extrusion process for forming the food segments may be continuous with the insertion process, such as when the packaging units are located in alignment with movement of a corresponding number of extrusion members. Thus, an automated system may include a mechanized trimmer, a mechanized extrusion unit, and a mechanized packager that provides hands-free insertion of the food segments into the packaging units.

Abstract: A fruit coring system for a fruit such as a coconut having a central cavity therein in which the system consists of a coring assembly and a corkscrew assembly. The coring assembly is a pipe-like segment having a length proportioned to a depth sufficient to reach the central cavity of the fruit, the segment having a serrated first end and an open second end having internal threadings; and lateral hardware attached to and extending from an outer surface of the second end of the pipe-like segment, for facilitating selectable rotation of the pipe-like segment after the corkscrew assembly has positioned the pipe-like assembly upon the fruit to be cored. The corkscrew assembly includes a corkscrew proper; a boss proportioned for threadable engagement with the threaded inner surface of the second end of the pipe-like segment, in which the boss is integral with a second end of the elongate member; and a handle of the corkscrew assembly which is integral to a side of the boss opposite said elongate member.

Abstract: A produce peeling and coring device having a modular blade assembly which can be removed and positioned on numerous machine embodiments, such as freestanding machines, wall-mount machines, and tabletop machines.

Abstract: An automated high volume coring machine having a frame, a lifting device, a coring station, and a programmable controller. The lifting device having a scoop for lifting the produce into the coring station. The coring station having removing the skin and core of the produce.

Abstract: A coring device includes a base portion that receives an arrayed plurality of samples, the base portion including a plurality of vertically oriented slider rods. A coring portion including an arrayed plurality of coring tubes aligned with the arrayed plurality of samples is slidable along the vertically oriented slider rods between a retracted position and an actuated position where cores are taken from the samples. An extraction portion including arrayed plurality of extraction pins aligned with the arrayed plurality of coring tubes for insertion therein is also slidable along the vertically oriented slider rods between a retracted position and an actuated position where the extraction pins eject cores from the coring tubes. A coring drive mechanism is provided to mechanically move the coring portion between the retracted position and the actuated position.

Abstract: An apparatus for preparing lettuce heads with tightly packed overlapping leaves or vegetables with a similar structure. The apparatus includes a plurality of workstations and supports for receiving lettuce heads and for conveying the lettuce heads through the workstations. At the workstations, cutters are operably disposed for severing the bases of the outer leaves and for slicing into the tops of the outer leaves. A device, such as an air jet, is provided at one of the stations for removing the outer leaves. Additional cutters are provided at the work stations for transversely slicing the central part of the lettuce head and for severing a portion of the central part from the heart of the lettuce head. Still another cutter is disposed at one of the stations for severing pink parts from the heart. A cutter is also provided for severing the heart from the stalk. The edible parts such as the central parts and the heart are then collected in receptacles disposed at the work stations.

Abstract: Automatic pear processing machine, performing the operations of singularising the pears, picking them up from a container (2), peeling and coring them, and separating the edible parts, wherein the improvement consists, besides other things, in providing means 14, 15, 16, 17, 20) allowing to immediately reject pears of irregular for, which would necessarily lead to waste material, and moreover, in providing holes (46, 53) of very small diameters, on the blades (44, 45) used for cutting the pears into segments. The holes (46, 53) of very small diameter, or “microholes”, allow to inject a fluid, so as to ensure the detachment of the core from both halves of the pears, and the detachment of these parts from the blades (44, 45).

Abstract: An apparatus for preparing produce includes a base having a cradle for receiving the produce which is to be processed, and a reciprocating head which cooperates with the cradle and which includes one or more blades for operating upon the produce which is positioned in the cradle. A single blade is positioned for alignment with center portions of the produce to sever the core membrane of the produce as the head is lowered onto the base. An opposing pair of blades are positioned for alignment with end portions of the produce for removal of the end portions of the produce as the head is lowered onto the base. The base of the apparatus further preferably includes a retaining element which extends over the cradle for receiving the produce, for maintaining the produce in the cradle during operations of the apparatus on the produce.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a device for mechanically removing the core of fruits and vegetables. The device is designed to be used on a vertical or horizontal hand press. The device has an upper collar member having a centrally located threaded aperture therein for attachment to the hand press and has a connection to a lower collar member upon which the cylindrical coring blade is attached by use of an adjustment screw. The coring blade has a cross member located internally which passes across its inner bore and also an alternative embodiment is disclosed having cutting teeth for cutting into the fruit or vegetable which cutting teeth are located in the cylindrical wall at one distal end of the coring blade.

Abstract: Apparatus for the automated removal of cores from vegetables, especially floretting vegetables, comprises a conveyor (13, 14) including vegetable supports (15) for indexed advancing of vegetables (35) from a loading station (A) to a cutting station (B) and a cutting head assembly comprising one or more cutter elements (23) movable in a core-excision cutting movement, in which the cutting head assembly is movable between a cutting position in registration with a vegetable support in the cutting station and a core discharge position displaced from the pass of the conveyor. The apparatus may be single- or multi-lane. The cutter blades may be formed as lobes (23) which retain the excised cores in the closed-together condition pending ejection at the discharge position.

Abstract: A system for preparing baked applies (12) and other edible fruits and vegetables which comprises a component for coring through a top of an apple (16) and into a core (18) thereof to remove the core (18) with its seeds, so as to form a hole (20) therein. A facility (22) is for removing some pulp (24) of the apple (16) from within the hole (20), so as to form an expanded chamber (26) therein with a top inlet port (28). A prepared sweet food mass filler (30) can be inserted past the top inlet port (28) and into the expanded chamber (26), a food topping (32) placed thereon and the apple (16) baked.

Abstract: A food processing apparatus particularly designed for handling produce items with a calyx and including a vacuum mechanism for grasping the produce item by the calyx for orientation and transportation of the item and a coring implement for removal of the calyx from a properly oriented produce item, the processing apparatus being designed to perform grasping and coring operations at separate stations or is a single operation.

Abstract: A coring apparatus for coring a substantially annular food item includes a base member, a post member extending from the base member, the post member including a drive shaft guide structure, a drive shaft having a longitudinal axis and being rotatably fitted through the guide structure, the drive shaft having shaft external threads, a mechanism for engaging the shaft external threads, so that rotating the drive shaft relative to the post member causes the drive shaft to advance along the longitudinal axis relative to the post member, a food item cutting element mounted on the drive shaft including arched blades having blade cutting edges radially spaced from the drive shaft longitudinal axis for cutting along a circular path, and a food item holding structure connected to the mounting base and located within the longitudinal axis of the drive shaft and adjacent to the cutting element for securing the food item against rotation relative to the post member so that the cutting element is advanced toward the hold

Abstract: A safety peeler including a short cylindrical shell having a closed exterior portion and an open interior portion with a cylindrical extension extending therefrom including an external threaded portion and an exterior surface therebetween with a top edge and a bottom edge; a rectangular tab with an upper edge, a lower edge being in communication with the top portion of the shell and four vertical sides being equally spaced from the top edge of the exterior surface of the shell, the upper edge capable of cutting away the skin of a citrus fruit; a long cylinder being hollow having an interior opening with a top edge, an exterior opening with a bottom edge and an exterior surface and an internal wall therebetween including an internal threaded portion being adjacent to the top edge of the interior opening, the internal threaded portion capable of engaging the external threaded portion of the cylindrical shell; a cylindrical tapered edge having an upper edge in communication with the bottom edge of the exterior o

Abstract: An apparatus (110) is provided for cutting the skin (S) of a piece of fruit (F) so it can be peeled off, and making a core cut (C) through the middle of the fruit. A base plate (112) has an upper surface for supporting a piece of fruit in a position in which it can be cut and cored. An inner cutting blade (120) and an outer cutting blade (122) are movable from a first position above the piece of the fruit toward the cutting board. These blades are coaxially aligned with each other. The outer blade is a circular blade which cuts through the skin of the fruit so it can be peeled off. Peel cutting blades (162) extend outwardly from the outer blade to slice the peel so that it may be removed. The peel cutting blades and outer blade are removably secured to apparatus for simple changing of the blades. A handle mechanism is used to simultaneously move the blades.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for removing palm hearts from the tapered and "meristem" sections of cut lengths of stalks of palm, each of which had included a large "meristem" section joined to a smaller diameter top section by an intermediate tapered section, and had a palm heart that runs the length of the stalk as a core member inside an intermediate layer that is surrounded by a thorny outer bark layer. After removel of the smaller diameter section from the remainder of the stalk, the remaining tapered and "meristem" sections are caused to be retentively positioned in coring means by which, backed by means for retaining the work piece in position, a coring knife moves substantially coaxially to the piece from one of its ends to core out and remove the palmheart core from the remainder of the work piece. Embodiments include such means per se and methods for carrying out the foregoing processes.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for removing palm hearts from cut lengths of stalks of palm each of which includes a large "meristem" section that is joined to a smaller diameter top section by an intermediate tapered section, and has a palm heart that runs the length of the stalk as a core member inside an intermediate layer that is surrounded by a thorny outer bark layer. Each such stalk is caused to move longitudinally through bark removal means for slitting the outer bark layer of its smaller diameter section and removing the bark from the remainder of the stalk. The smaller section, after having been severed from the rest of the stalk, is caused to move longitudinally through intermediate layer removal means for slitting and removing the intermediate layer from the underlying palm heart. Embodiments include each such means per se and acting cooperatively with the other, and methods for carrying out the foregoing processes.

Abstract: Cut, cooked peppers, substantially free of core portions, are prepared. Cooked peppers are distributed to form an essentially single layer on a suitable support such as a conveyor. They are cut both parallel to and transversely to the direction of movement of the support. The support, holding pieces of flesh and core, is moved relative to a plurality of pins to impale both. The pins are preferentially withdrawn from the pieces of flesh and remain impaled within the cores, thereby separating one from the other. In its more comprehensive aspects, the process includes the further steps of: roasting the peppers whole, including core, stem and calyx, to provide roasted peppers; and washing and tumbling the peppers after roasting to separate skins therefrom. Desirably, the pieces of flesh are acidified, diced and packaged, after separation of the cores.

Abstract: A toroidal shaped impact assembly (10) for use in a hydraulic food cutting system is disclosed. Impact assembly (10) includes frustum shaped housing (22), an attachment plate (28) for mounting the assembly within a hydraulic food assembly, and a toroidally shaped impact ring (20). Food products such as peppers (12) are suspended in water and accelerated into assembly (10) where the aligned whole peppers impact against ring (20) thereby breaking apart into food pieces and an unattached seed pod or core.

Abstract: Apparatus (10) for cutting the skin (S) of a piece of fruit (F) so it can be peeled off, and making a core (C) cut through the middle of the fruit. A base plate (12) has an upper surface (14) for supporting a piece of fruit in a position in which it can be cut and cored. An inner cutting blade (20) and an outer cutting blade (22) are movable from a first portion above the piece of the fruit toward the cutting board. These blades are coaxially aligned with each other. The inner blade is, for example, rectangular in cross-section to produce a generally rectangular cut in the piece of fruit core. The inner blade may have other configurations. The outer blade is a circular blade which cuts through the skin of the fruit so it can be peeled off. A handle mechanism (24) is used to simultaneously move the blades.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a product of predetermined shape from a vegetable which the vegetable is centered above a tube, the tube having an annular cutting edge. The vegetable is pressed into the tube to form a cylindrical core. The core is rotated about the longitudinal axis of the tube and then a cutting tube moveable laterally against the core cuts the predetermined shape from the core when the core is rotated.

Abstract: An apparatus for the cutting out of vegetable heads, in particular cauliflower, fruits or parts thereof which have on their underside a central part (stipe), which is to be cut out from the surrounding part along a hemispherical or ogival face. The diameter of the cauliflower is established and the value determined is used for setting and controlling the cutter which is guided on a circular path, for adapting the diameter of the cutter circular path and the penetration depth of the cutter. In addition, the height of the cauliflower to be worked is also sensed, and the values for diameter and height are converted into electric signals and then processed to form setting signals. These setting signals are used for electromechanical control of the cutting operation in such a manner that the adjustment of the diameter of the cutter circular path is carried out independently of the adjustment of the cutter penetration depth.

Abstract: A tool is described for separating a core, a rind and flesh of a fruit, in particular a pineapple, including, at least, a cylindrical corer which is provided at one end with a cutting edge and at the other end with a handle or other driving member, such as a motor. In the tool there is provided, close to the cutting edge of the corer at least one flesh cutter extending radially thereon and provided with at least one cutting edge, the shape of the flesh cutter being chosen such that upon rotating of the tool, it executes a helical movement with a predetermined pitch, and in that at the end of the flesh cutter, opposite the end fixed to the corer, there is provided, at least locally, a rind cutter extending parallel to the corer and provided with at least one cutting edge. Further an auxiliary screw connected with the corer may be present to at least partially determine the pitch of the tool.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing a product of predetermined shape from a vegetable, in which the vegetable is split and the opposed sections are scooped out. In another aspect of the invention a shaft penetrates the vegetable and blades are laterally flexed to carve out a cavity when the shaft is rotated. In still another aspect of the invention a pair of sloping U-shaped cutters move together into the vegetable and a U-shaped knife in each of the cutters rotates to form a heart-shaped core.

Abstract: An apparatus for severing fragments (such as fleurettes) from a one-piece core of an article, such as a cauliflower, as the article is translated between stations along a process path. In a preferred embodiment, the article is translated through a sequence of stations, including a coring station, along the process path. At the coring station, the article is held in a fixed position by an impaling knife or pin, while one or more rotating coring knives are lowered into engagement with the article by a pivoting arm mechanism. The pivoting arm mechanism causes each rotating knife to trace out a generally helical path as it cores the article.

Abstract: A pineapple cutting and coring device includes a cutting board base plate for supporting a pineapple, an inside cylindrical cutting blade disposed above the cutting board, an outside cylindrical cutting blade positioned coaxial with the inside cutting blade, and first and second diametrically opposed radial cutting blades outwardly extend from the outside cylindrical blade. A leveraged moving device is suitably attached to the cutting blades and the cutting board base to move the blades downwardly through the pineapple. A stationary guide plate keeps the cutting blades in a vertical orientation as the cutting blades move downwardly through the pineapple.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing a product of predetermined shape from a vegetable, in which a cylindrical core is cut from the vegetable by forcing the vegetable against an annular cutting edge of a tube and cutting the product from the core by advancing a pair of opposed rotatable cutting elements into apertures in the side of the tube.

Abstract: A hand tool includes a cutting portion that is attached to a handle by a connecting portion, and is shaped and sized to efficiently separate a core from the leaves of a cabbage head and which will efficiently remove such separated core from the leaves.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for severing fragments (such as fleurettes) from a one-piece core of an article, such as a cauliflower, as the article is translated between stations along a process path. In a preferred embodiment, the article is loaded on a rotary table at a first station, then deleafed (or otherwise trimmed) at a second station, then aligned by a set of alignment rollers while translating through third and fourth alignment stations, then cored at a fifth coring station, and finally unloaded at a sixth station. At the coring station, the article is held in a fixed position by an impaling knife (or pin) while a set of rotating coring knives are lowered into engagement with the articles by a pivoting arm mechanism. The pivoting arm mechanism causes each rotating knife to trace out a generally helical path as it cores the article.

Abstract: Fins have edges which extend forward from a body which is reciprocated back and forth by a driving rod. The fins also have cutting blades. Olives are depitted by causing the forward edges to penetrate the olives and engage the pits. The cutting blades then slice the depitted olive into separate disconnected slices.

Abstract: A semiautomatic pineapple peeler in which adjustable width knife blades sever the ends of the pineapple and concentric cylindrical knives core and peel it, leaving the detached core in the peeled pineapple. The one step process is driven by two D.C. electric linear ball screw actuators, sequenced by an integrated circuit logic board and magnetic proximity limit switch arrangement. The peel is split in half by two radially mounted fins on the top and bottom of the large cylindrical knife, allowing the waste to be collected below.The pineapple machine completely removes all of the peel and cores a single pineapple automatically, eliminating the two step manual operation of first cutting the ends off and then using the existing labor intensive lever operated coring and peeling devices.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a hollowing machine for vegetables and fruits comprising a frame (1) with a lower table (2), a central table (3), an upper table (4) and outermost a step-by-step pivoting table (7), placed above the upper table. The pivoting table is provided with recesses or pockets for keeping a vegetable or fruit, e.g. a head of cauliflower. The machine comprises a supporting device (103) and a holding device (104) for centering and holding the head of cauliflower in the correct position. Below the outer pivoting table (7) and the upper table (4), centered under one of the recesses, a device of the iris diaphragm (83) type is arranged and straight under this diaphragm a knife head (46) and control devices (107, 36) for controlling the up- and downward movements of the knife head are arranged. The knife head comprises i.a.

Abstract: A pineapple corer and peeler comprises a power rotated head stock and an adjustable tail stock upon a framework to axially support and rotate a pineapple. A rotatable core cutting tube with sharpened circular edges advances axially through the head stock to longitudinally sever the pineapple core and a peeler blade upon a power rotated lead screw feeds along and spirally peels the pineapple during rotation.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a system for peeling an object having a generally soft interior portion surrounded by a generally hard external surface, where the system is suitable for use by consumers or in areas with consumers. According to one aspect of the invention, the apparatus of the invention includes a knife means for removing the hard external surface from the object, leaving substantially the soft interior portion. The apparatus also includes a housing enclosing the knife means to protect consumers or an operator of the apparatus from the knife means. The housing has two openings, one for receiving the object and one for discharging the soft interior portion after the object has been peeled.For some objects to be peeled, such as pineapples, the hard external surface of the object has two end portions and an intermediate body portion.

Abstract: The tool comprises two substantially annular and coaxial blades, an inner one and an outer one respectively, each of which has a frontal cutting edge, and a handgrip for enabling the blades to be pushed into the fruit and possibly rotated so as to separate the core and the skin from the fleshy part through the action of the cutting edge of the inner blade and the cutting edge of the outer blade, respectively. Each blade has associated elongate parts for connecting it to the handgrip which, together with the blades themselves, constitute regions of a single tubular body substantially free from roughness.

Abstract: Apparatus for removing the peel from a pineapple comprises a tubular knife provided with a toothed cutting edge designed to cut through a pineapple and fixed elongated guide means telescopically positioned within the tubular knife and adapted to direct the toothed cutting edge toward a pineapple that is interposed between the guide means and a cutting pad positioned in opposing relationship to the toothed cutting edge. The mechanism for moving the tubular knife towards the cutting pad and through the body of a pineapple includes leveraged means designed to reduce the force required to move the tubular knife through the pineapple. The elongated guide means is adapted to accommodate quickly interchangeable caps which increase the effective diameter of the guide means and which cooperate with annular spacer elements mounted on the inside wall of a tubular knife. This allows the apparatus to be used with different diameter tubular knives for different size pineapples.

Abstract: Apparatus for removing the peel from a pineapple comprises a cylindrical body provided with a toothed cutting edge designed to cut through a pineapple and fixed guide means telescopically positioned within the cylindrical body and adapted to direct the toothed cutting edge of the cylindrical body towards a pineapple that is placed on a cutting pad positioned in opposing relationship to the toothed cutting edge. The apparatus is optionally provided with a core tube slidably disposed in a passageway extending through the guide means and designed to cut through the central core of a pineapple placed on the cutting pad. The apparatus is also provided with means for simultaneously or separately moving the cylindrical body and the core tube towards the pineapple and the cutting pad.

Abstract: A pineapple cutter, wherein a smaller diameter tubular cutter for cutting the core of a pineapple and a larger diameter tubular cutter for cutting the peel of the pineapple are concentrically arranged on upper peripheral edge of a cylindrical body having a base disc, between said cutters a pineapple loading table is inserted loosely in vertically movable state, a horizontal rod for vertical movement of said loading table is connected with a vertically operating rod passing through a slant groove which is provided obiquely in vertical direction in the peripheral said wall of said cylindrical body.

Abstract: Automated food processing apparatus and methods of the type adapted for coring food products wherein a constantly sized core is removed from all food products of a group independently of the product size variation from one member to another of the group.

Abstract: In processing apparatus, especially fruit processing machinery, incorporating two functional subassemblies with movements which are synchronous with respect to one another, there is provided a fail safe indexing mechanism which prevents operation of one or the other of such subassemblies should for any reasons apparatus operational sequencing or synchronization be interrupted. The fail safe means utilizes a ratchet having a locking means to prevent over-travel thereof. In addition, a signalling means is associated with the locking means which allows operation of one subassembly only during a limited period of each machine cycle, provided all assemblies and sub-assemblies are in their normal location for that period of the timing cycle.

Abstract: A pineapple cutter, wherein a smaller diameter tubular cutter for cutting the core of a pineapple and a larger diameter tubular cutter for cutting the peel of the pineapple are concentrically arranged on upper peripheral edge of a cylindrical body having a base disc, between said cutters a pineapple loading table is inserted loosely in vertically movable state, a horizontal rod for vertical movement of said loading table is connected with a vertically operating rod passing through a slant groove which is provided obliquely in vertical direction in the peripheral said wall of said cylindrical body.According to said arrangement, the disadvantage of usual pineapple cutter is completely eliminated, assuring simultaneous removing of hard peel and core of a pineapple easily and accurately.

Abstract: A system for preparing baked applies (12) and other edible fruits and vegetables which comprises a component for coring through a top of an apple (16) and into a core (18) thereof to remove the core (18) with its seeds, so as to form a hole (20) therein. A facility (22) is for removing some pulp (24) of the apple (16) from within the hole (20), so as to form an expanded chamber (26) therein with a top inlet port (28). A prepared sweet food mass filler (30) can be inserted past the top inlet port (28) and into the expanded chamber (26), a food topping (32) placed thereon and the apple (16) baked.