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6969535 Method for pitting and slicing olives with spring-loaded, adjustable slicing knife assembly  
A method and apparatus for pitting olives (or other fruit) and slicing the pitted fruit. In preferred embodiments, a pitting knife and a coring knife horizontally translate each olive to be pitted...
6861083 Process and apparatus for the integral utilization of oil-producing drupes, particularly olives, and specific products obtained  
A process and an apparatus for the processing of oil-producing drupes, notably olives, is described comprising at least one device ( 20, 24 ) for the processing of whole drupes which effects a...
6824811 Concentrate of triterpenes  
The invention concerns concentrates of ursolic acid or its salts and oleanoic acid, wherein (i) ursolic acid and oleanoic acid or its salts are present in an total amount for the two of more than...
6410069 Method for decontaminating a drupe  
A drupe which is infested with a larva of a moth or larvae of other insects, and is contaminated with related excretions, referred to as a “frass”, in a central zone within the drupe, is...
6338865 Process for preparing food products fortified with oleanolic acid  
Olive oil is fortified with oleanolic acid by including olive leaves in the malaxation mash of conventional olive oil pressing in an amount of 5-50 wt. %, based on the weight of the malaxation...
6214398 Method and apparatus for pitting peaches  
A servo driven peach pitter mechanism with a servo motor (100) for a gripper mechanism head assembly (60) and a servo motor (118) for a selective knife (56), to achieve unlimited control...
5918819 Devices and methods for isolating seeds of vegetables and fruits and for releasing and separating same from coats  
Devices and corresponding mechanical non-fermentive methods for isolating seeds from fruits or vegetables and for releasing and separating the isolated seeds from their coats, according to one...
5869123 System for processing liquid foodstuff or liquid medicine with a supercritical fluid of carbon dioxide  
A method of continuously de-activating enzymes, sterilizing or deodorizing a liquid material such as liquid foodstuff or liquid medicine with a supercritical fluid of carbon dioxide. The method...
5839225 Methods and apparatus for preventing contamination of seeds  
Methods and apparatus for producing pathogen-reduced seeds from fruits or vegetables by sterilizing the surface of the fruit or vegetable, and subsequently releasing a seed and pulp mixture from...
5305888 Fruit/vegetable floatation grading  
A floatation separation method is described for separating pieces of fruit or vegetable of the same type, but wherein desirable pieces have a slightly different specific gravity from the...
4925691 Method and apparatus for pitting and slicing olives  
A method and apparatus for pitting olives and then slicing the pitted olives. In a preferred embodiment, each olive is carried in a cup positioned between a coring knife and a pitting knife in a...
4871568 Method for pitting olives  
A method and apparatus for pitting olives, in which each olive is held between a pair of matching knives as the knives are rotated along parallel circular paths by a rotating drive shaft. The...
4847101 Method for pitting and stuffing olives  
A method for depitting an olive wherein at least one elongated member moves horizontally through an olive having a horizontal longitudinal axis and supported at one end in a recess of a cup to...
4768351 Fruit refrigerating device  
A fruit refrigerating device includes a cylindrical hopper receiving fruits and provided with an axially disposed rotatable worm which moves the fruits through the hopper and a cooling unit for...
4732771 Method for removing skins and pits from avocados  
A method and apparatus are disclosed for removing skins and pits from avocados and the like in a process where the avocado is initially held in a split cup, knife means being operated for cutting...
4504506 Method for chopping olives  
A method for chopping olives comprises feeding olives into an abrading zone in a pulper having at least one rotatable brush which clears a screen extending around the periphery of the abrading...
4485732 Machine for pitting drupaceous fruits  
A machine for the pitting of drupaceous fruits, e.g. prunes, has an endless chain of articulated conveyor plates each provided with several vertical cylindrical bores whose flared mouths face...
4486454 Pre-slitter blade in a peach pitter and method  
Improvements to a torque-type peach pitter and method, during each cycle of which a peach is presented to a pair of peach bisecting and pit gripping blades for cutting the flesh of the peach to its...
4308292 Method for producing pitted olives  
A method and apparatus are disclosed for separating the meat of an olive into two end portions and preparing such an olive for packing. This method and apparatus provides for receiving an olive and...
4288461 Method of selective pitting for fruits of the drupe type  
Apparatus and methods are described for pitting fruit of the drupe type, in which fruit having sound pits are torque pitted and fruit having split pits are spoon pitted. A coring spoon is spaced...
4206697 Method and apparatus for selective pitting of fruits of the drupe type  
Apparatus and methods are described for pitting fruit of the drupe type in a cyclical manner in a processing operation involving a series of processing steps in which fruit having a sound pit is...
4170660 Method for pitting peaches  
Method for pitting peaches using a machine which receives a peach by partially cutting it and gripping the stone and while then rotating the peach through a circle engages the peach halves by...
4168658 Peach pitting machine having apparatus for preventing deformation of the fruit body gripping structure when the machine is operated with no fruit present  
In a peach bisecting and pitting machine in which the fruit is gripped by a deformable gripper during the pitting operation, apparatus is disclosed for sensing the presence or absence of a fruit...
4158993 Selective peach pitter  
A torque-type pitter for pitting drupes such as cling-stone peaches and the like, having coplanar, body-bisecting and pit-holding blades, and coaxial elements for gripping the peach body at...
3987948 Apparatus for opening drupaceous fruit  
A single-stone containing fruit of the drupe family is laid open to permit removal of the stone and implanting of a filling, if desired, by centrally impaling it on a row of tines, every other one...
3962474 Olive stuffing method  
Pitted olives are stuffed with an edible food that has been dried to facilitate its handling, and the dried food is reconstituted within the pitted olives by packing the stuffed olives in an...
3878309 PEACH PITTING METHOD  
A method of pitting seamed indented fruit wherein the improvement comprises lowering upper blades to bisect the fruit while the fruit is lifted on a lower pitting tool from the cup in which it had...
3829591 FRUIT DE-STONING METHOD AND APPARATUS  
A mechanism or knife assembly for de-coring fruit including at least one slicing blade and an elongate semi-circular coring blade which is mounted adjacent a cutting edge of the slicing blade and...
3583456 DRUPE PITTER AND SYSTEM  
A pitter for removing pits from clingstone peaches and the like, in which conveyor and orienting means is provided for delivering a plurality of drupe halves having pits or pit halves therein to...
3552464 METHOD OF PITTING SPLIT-PIT PEACHES  
Peaches with structurally weak pits are twist pitted by orienting the suture plane of the peach normal to the bisecting and gripping blades. The plane in which the bisected flesh halves are twisted...
3520341 DRUPE PITTER AND METHOD  
3496978 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DRUPE HALVING AND PITTING  
3442313 PITTER AND SORTER FOR SEPARATING PITTED FROM UNPITTED PEACH HALVES  
3363657 Method for splitting and pitting fruit  
3330320 Method of bisecting and pitting freestone drupes  
3234984 Fruit handling machinery  
3228443 Freestone drupe pitting method  
3217767 Pitting method  
3212545 Method of orienting and pitting fruit having stems  
3194290 Apricot pitter  
3179139 Method of pitting freestone peaches  
3151647 Drupe pitting method  
3151648 Method of pitting peach halves  
3151646 Method of pitting peaches  
3113602 Method of removing pits from drupe halves  
3102568 Method of pitting peaches  
3040795 Method of pitting fruit  
3010501 Method of pitting peaches  
2929424 Fruit orienting and cutting system  
2924259 Fruit pitting method  
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