| 序号 | 专利名 | 申请号 | 申请日 | 公开（公告）号 | 公开（公告）日 | 发明人 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 161 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR LABELLING PRODUCTS | US14764196 | 2014-02-04 | US20150375885A1 | 2015-12-31 | Vicente José BERNAT VILAR |
| The invention can be used for the labelling of fruit and other objects. It comprises a labelling device and a feed device for a belt bearing a series of labels. The labelling device comprises an angled leg to which is coupled part of the belt having a belt-advance branch with labels and a return branch without labels, the labels having been detached in a forward region in front of the point at which the two branches meet. The labelling device can bend each label before it is detached from the belt and prior to being stuck on the product. To that end, the labelling device has characteristic means for bending the labels, including a rotary module associated with an encoder. | ||||||
| 162 | Method and system for modifying raw foods, and raw food product made thereby | US14247232 | 2014-04-07 | US09192181B2 | 2015-11-24 | Caius D Rommens; Heather M Holloway; Roy D Holloway |
| A method for modifying a quality of a fruit includes cutting a live stem attached to a live fruit at a cut distance from the fruit, producing a cut end of the stem, contacting only the cut end of the stem with a solution comprising at least one mobile and quality-modifying food ingredient while protecting the fruit from contact with the solution, and keeping the cut end of the stem in contact with the solution for an incubation time sufficient to allow absorption and transport of the food ingredient into the fruit, the food ingredient conferring a modified quality upon the fruit. A system for practicing the method and an edible raw plant product produced by the method are also disclosed. | ||||||
| 163 | Plant processing system and method | US14116595 | 2012-05-11 | US09161566B2 | 2015-10-20 | Peter Ryan Hall |
| A plant processor, having: a) a rotatable drum for receiving plant matter, the rotatable drum having a plurality of slots; b) a rotatable cutting reel positioned below the rotatable drum, the cutting reel rotatable in the opposite direction of the drum; c) a cutting knife horizontally positioned below the top of the reel; the cutting knife maintained in position by one or more magnets, the cutting knife slidable along a slot in a frame of the processor by a rod extending above the knife; and d) a motor to rotate a shaft secured to the reel, the shaft having a groove to frictionally engage a ring, the ring supporting the drum, whereby rotation of the reel rotates the drum in the opposite direction. | ||||||
| 164 | ENCAPSULATION OF GASES WITHIN CYCLODEXTRINS | US14434638 | 2013-10-10 | US20150272148A1 | 2015-10-01 | Bhesh Bhandari; Thanh Ho Binh |
| An inclusion complex of an amorphous α-cyclodextrin, or derivative thereof, with encapsulated ethylene is provided by exposure of the dry solid amorphous α-cyclodextrin to ethylene gas under pressure. The inclusion complex will have applications in a number of fields including fruit ripening. | ||||||
| 165 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MODIFYING RAW FOODS, AND RAW FOOD PRODUCT MADE THEREBY | US14247232 | 2014-04-07 | US20150099711A1 | 2015-04-09 | Caius D. Rommens; Heather M. Holloway; Roy D. Holloway |
| A method for modifying a quality of a fruit includes cutting a live stem attached to a live fruit at a cut distance from the fruit, producing a cut end of the stem, contacting only the cut end of the stem with a solution comprising at least one mobile and quality-modifying food ingredient while protecting the fruit from contact with the solution, and keeping the cut end of the stem in contact with the solution for an incubation time sufficient to allow absorption and transport of the food ingredient into the fruit, the food ingredient conferring a modified quality upon the fruit. A system for practicing the method and an edible raw plant product produced by the method are also disclosed. | ||||||
| 166 | DEGASSING DEVICE FOR SYSTEMS FOR TREATING FOOD PRODUCTS SUCH AS LEAF VEGETABLES, TUBEROUS, FRUIT OF MEET, CHEESES OR SAUSAGES, AND LIKE, AND SYSTEM FOR TREATMENT OF SAID PRODUCTS COMPRISING SAID DEVICE | US14389205 | 2013-03-28 | US20150053088A1 | 2015-02-26 | Antonio Turatti |
| Degassing device (21) for systems for treatment of food products (12) such as leaf vegetables, tuberous, fruit of meet, cheeses or sausages, and like, characterized in that it comprises a degassing conduct (22) for a food product (12) treatment fluid, said degassing conduct (22) having, in sequence along its development trajectory, an inclined inlet tract (23), within which said flow fluid rises, a degassing tract (24), and an outlet tract (25), within which said flow is directed downward; and a degassing chamber (27), in correspondence of said degassing tract (24); said degassing tract (24) having, at least on its upper wall (24a), a plurality of holes (26) suitable to communicate said degassing tract (24) with said degassing tract (27) to permit exit of air bubbles trapped within said flow from said degassing chamber (27), preventing exit of food products (12). | ||||||
| 167 | Avocado Cutting and Splitting Device | US14359569 | 2012-11-19 | US20140311307A1 | 2014-10-23 | Richard Moore; Gary Champlin |
| An Avocado Cutting and Splitting Device. The device uses a single cutting blade to cut through both the seed and meat of incoming avocados. To increase uptime, the device allows the cutting blade to be sharpened while in operating condition (without removing the blade from the machine). There are a series of guides, elements and other apparatus that will place the incoming avocados in a consistent orientation relative to the cutting blade before they are cut. Belt agitation fingers have further been added to cause the feed belt to vibrate during operation, in order to assist in positioning the avocados properly prior to their being cut. To improve throughput and reduce the need for human involvement, the device includes a set of custom-shaped ramps designed to guide and transport the cut avocado halves to the moving exit conveyor so that the halves land face-down on the exit conveyor. | ||||||
| 168 | Caps For Fruits and Vegetables | US14204798 | 2014-03-11 | US20140261020A1 | 2014-09-18 | Mark W. Levie |
| A cover for a cut portion of a fruit or vegetable includes a fruit or vegetable engaging base surface, a raised boundary rim coupled to the base surface, and at least one spike emanating from the base surface. In another embodiment, a cover for covering a cut portion of food includes a base having an outer perimeter and a food engaging surface, and a food penetrating member extending outwardly from the food engaging surface. | ||||||
| 169 | Fruit breaking method and apparatus | US11271329 | 2005-11-10 | US08460740B2 | 2013-06-11 | Joseph J. Meduri |
| Methods and apparatus for producing pieces of sweetened, dried fruit. Methods as described in the present disclosure generally include supercooling sweetened, dried fruit having a moisture content between 8% and 18%, and then breaking the supercooled fruit into pieces having an appropriate size distribution. Supercooling the fruit may be accomplished by immersing or otherwise exposing the fruit to a supercooling substance such as liquid nitrogen, liquid oxygen, or solid carbon dioxide. Breaking the fruit may be accomplished, for example, by rapidly vibrating the supercooled fruit on a screen, or by passing the supercooled fruit through a cutting device such as a centrifugal slicer, among others. A system for producing pieces of sweetened, dried fruit may include apparatus for drying the fruit, infusing it with sugar or otherwise sweetening it, immersing or otherwise exposing the fruit to a supercooled substance, and/or breaking the fruit through vibration, cutting, or the like. | ||||||
| 170 | PRODUCE CHAMBER WITH INFLATABLE BALLOON SEAL | US13121850 | 2009-09-30 | US20110244097A1 | 2011-10-06 | Scott Andrew North; Gary Martin North |
| A produce chamber (1) is provided to subject produce in a crate (7) to a controlled atmosphere. The chamber (1) has at least one inflatable/deflatable balloon seal structure (15) for sealingly engaging with a side wall of a produce crate (7) which has at least one opening (13) in a side wall (11) thereof. The balloon seal structure (15) has at least one discharge opening (19) that aligns with the at least one crate opening (13). Crates (7) with produce therein can be loaded in the chamber (1) with the balloon seal structure (15) deflated. The balloon seal structure (15) can then be inflated and controlled atmosphere allowed to circulate through the balloon seal structure (15) and discharged from the opening (19) and through the crate opening (13) to expose the produce to a controlled atmosphere. | ||||||
| 171 | Apparatus for slicing apples | US11471207 | 2006-06-20 | US07610850B2 | 2009-11-03 | Frank E. Jensen; Tim R. Vaughan; David C. Bullock; William L. Thompson, Jr. |
| An apparatus for slicing apples is provided. The slicer utilizes thinner blades than known in the art, with a thickness less than 300 microns, and preferably between 180 and 220 microns. Each of the thinner blades is supported against bending, warping or twisting by a novel clinch buckle which rigidly supports the outer end or ends of each blades. The clinch buckle is rigidly connected to bent tabs formed at the outer end or ends of each blade and supports the outer ends across the full width of the blades. The clinch buckle is supported by an outer blade support ring and is captured by the outer support ring to prevent rotation of the clinch buckle. The thinner blade reduces cell damage, reduces the amount of sealant or neutralizer needed to slow or prevent oxidation of enzymes released from cells ruptured by slicing, and delays the onset of browning. A serrated blade is used to further reduce the extent of cell damage. | ||||||
| 172 | Apparatus for slicing apples | US11471207 | 2006-06-20 | US20060283339A1 | 2006-12-21 | Frank Jensen; Tim Vaughan; David Bullock; William Thompson |
| An apparatus for slicing apples is provided. The slicer utilizes thinner blades than known in the art, with a thickness less than 300 microns, and preferably between 180 and 220 microns. Each of the thinner blades is supported against bending, warping or twisting by a novel clinch buckle which rigidly supports the outer end or ends of each blades. The clinch buckle is rigidly connected to bent tabs formed at the outer end or ends of each blade and supports the outer ends across the full width of the blades. The clinch buckle is supported by an outer blade support ring and is captured by the outer support ring to prevent rotation of the clinch buckle. The thinner blade reduces cell damage, reduces the amount of sealant or neutralizer needed to slow or prevent oxidation of enzymes released from cells ruptured by slicing, and delays the onset of browning. A serrated blade is used to further reduce the extent of cell damage. | ||||||
| 173 | Produce marking system | US744620 | 1996-11-06 | US5897797A | 1999-04-27 | Greg Drouillard; Rowland W. Kanner |
| A produce (e.g. fruits and vegetables) marking system is used to etch the skin of a piece of produce with an identifying mark. The first embodiment of the system uses a laser to emit a high intensity light beam to form the identifying mark. The second and third embodiments of the system use a dot matrix printer head. In the second embodiment, the pins of the printer head directly contact the produce skin to etch an area of the skin to form the identifying mark. In the third embodiment, a thermally conductive ribbon member is placed between the printer head and the produce. The pins of the printer head impact the ribbon member thereby forming a hot spot on the ribbon member, which in turn, etches the skin of the produce to form the identifying mark. | ||||||
| 174 | Method for producing a vegetable product | US762944 | 1991-09-19 | US5275071A | 1994-01-04 | Rex B. Plant; John P. Marton |
| A method and apparatus for producing a product of predetermined shape from a vegetable, in which a cylindrical core is cut from the vegetable, and a predetermined shape is cut laterally from the core. In another aspect of the invention a cylindrical plug is cut into the vegetable, a cylindrical pocket is cut in the plug, and the base of the plug is severed from the vegetable for form a cup. | ||||||
| 175 | Apparatus for producing a vegetable product | US762444 | 1991-09-19 | US5228397A | 1993-07-20 | Rex B. Plant; John P. Marton |
| 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. | ||||||
| 176 | Coffee bean polishing apparatus | US592701 | 1990-10-03 | US5076157A | 1991-12-31 | Toshihiko Satake |
| A green coffee bean polishing apparatus for removing silver skin from green coffee beans having the silver skins remaining after removal of parchment, comprises: a tubular member communicated at one end portion thereof with a supply port for green coffee beans to be polished and at the other end portion thereof with a discharge port for the polished green coffee beans, the tubular member defining a polishing chamber therein and having a large number of through holes formed in a wall surface thereof; a polishing roll rotatably disposed in the polishing chamber for serving to polish the green coffee beans in the polishing chamber so as to separate the silver skin from the outer surface of each green coffee bean; and an air passing means for passing air from the polishing chamber to the outside of the tubular member so as to discharge the silver skin separated from the green coffee beans through the through holes in the tubular member. Accordingly, the silver skin can be ensured to be removed from the individual green coffee beans. | ||||||
| 177 | Machine for fashioning vegetables and similar products | US467804 | 1982-02-18 | US4503761A | 1985-03-12 | Jean-Francois Cailloux |
| A machine for fashioning vegetables and similar products.The machine comprises: a fashioning gripper 12 comprising two jaws 18, 19 adapted for seizing the vegetable via opposed axial actions; a fashioning tool 17 rotating about an axis parallel to the common axis of the fashioning gripper and of the vegetable, said tool being in the shape of a solid of revolution about its rotation axis; means 40 for successively bringing the fashioning tool 17 near and away from the fashioning gripper 12; means 27 for rotating the gripper about itself over a predetermined angle, between two fashioning operations, and an outlet cutting station with two spaced apart cutting tool 43, adapted for eliminating on the facetted vegetable end portions, at least in the areas where the fashioning tool has not removed material, so that the machined facets end axially on two end radial faces. | ||||||
| 178 | Apparatus and method for controlling the application of liquid substances to surfaces of fruit | US478469 | 1983-03-23 | US4477483A | 1984-10-16 | Philip J. Lewis |
| An apparatus and method for controllably applying a liquid substance to the surfaces of a plurality of discrete fruit moving along a path at a selected rate of speed and in accordance with the quantity of fruit on said path, the application of liquid substance to the fruit being by more than one nozzle movable transversely over the path at a selected rate of speed. The apparatus includes sensors for determining the speed of advancement of the fruit, that is the speed of the conveyor, a plurality of fingers engageable by the fruit to determine, by absence of engagement of fruit, the quantity of fruit moving along the path, and a control system for regulating the amount of liquid discharged from the nozzles and to correlate the amount of liquid discharged to the speed of advancement of the fruit and the quantity of fruit being advanced. In the method, an optimum effective volume of liquid substance is applied at selected pressures to the sensed quantity of fruit on the path. | ||||||
| 179 | Peanut seed treating machine | US129031 | 1980-03-10 | US4275682A | 1981-06-30 | Joseph A. Weber |
| A peanut treating machine including a supply bin with a hopper bottom, a peanut distributing conical plate distributing peanuts into an annular curtain of free falling peanuts; a high speed rotor with upper and lower discs from which liquid chemical treatment is emitted, the upper disc having larger diameter than the lower disc and having flutes which are substantially deeper in an axial direction than the lower disc; and the upper disc having holes near its inner periphery to provide for the flow of liquid chemical treatment downwardly through the holes so that the liquid chemical treatment is emitted from both top and bottom surfaces of the upper disc in fine particles. | ||||||
| 180 | Method for ripening fruit in atmosphere of ethylene and carbon dioxide | US38306373 | 1973-07-27 | US3924010A | 1975-12-02 | ERB EZRA |
| A non-flammable composition useful for ripening fruit consisting of a liquid solution of ethylene and carbon dioxide, containing from about 1 to 6.3 wt.-% ethylene and from about 93.7 to 99 wt.% CO2. The process comprises contacting the fruit to be ripened with a gaseous mixture produced by vaporization of the ethyleneCO2 solution.
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