Improvements introduced in the object of the main patent n.450674 by: apparatus to distribute and drain fruits of the type of the peach. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

摘要

Improvements introduced in the object of the main patent no. 450,674, filed on august 13, 1976, by "apparatus for splitting and peeling fruits of the peach type, according to which such apparatus comprises: means for collecting said fruit, producing a partial cut in its pulp and thus define two halves of fruit adhered to the bone of said fruit, and hold said bone, means for holding the outer surfaces of said two halves of fruit, said fastening means comprising a pair of opposed fastening heads, arranged each one of them on opposite sides of said collecting and cutting means of the fruit and generally adjacent each one to a respective half of said fruit halves, each of said fastening heads having a cavity oriented towards said collecting and cutting means of the fruit, means for moving said fastener heads between a distal position of said collecting and cutting means of the fruit and a position p next to said means for collecting and cutting the fruit in which said clamping heads substantially surround their respectively adjacent halves of said fruit, an elastic diaphragm element similar to a cup extending inwardly and continuously through each of said clamping head cavities to snap and hold so that the outer surface of the respective halves of said fruit can be released and prevent contact between said fruit and other portions of said clamping head inside said cavity when said clamping heads are in their positions in which they surround the fruit halves. Means for supplying pressurized operating fluid between each of said clamping head cavities and its respective diaphragm element, whereby the introduction of such pressurized fluid between such cavities and diaphragm elements will cause the diaphragm elements to be elastically deformed in order to adapt such diaphragm elements to the shape of the respective fruit halves and thus hold such fruit halves; valve means for controlling the selective introduction and removal of said pressurized fluid within said spaces, by which such introduction and removal of such pressurized fluid will effect selective grasping and detachment of the fruit by the fastening means and means for rotating said clamping heads in opposite directions about an axis extending through said fruit while said diaphragm elements hold said fruit halves, whereby the fruit halves can be released from each other and from the bone. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)