An apparatus for preparing fruit includes a main housing with a cutting area containing a cutting assembly and a drive assembly, a removable cup assembly for inserting the fruit into the apparatus, and a removable drawer and tray for removing cut pieces of fruit from the apparatus after a cutting operation. The apparatus includes a rinsing assembly for cleaning the fruit and the cutting assembly, and a deflector configured to route cut pieces of fruit into the tray and waste material through a disposal outlet. The cutting assembly is configured to perform one or more cutting operations depending on the type of fruit detected in the cup assembly: wedging for apples, lemons, limes, and pears, and cutting/peeling for oranges and grapefruits. The apparatus quickly prepares various fruits for consumption without requiring an operator to touch the cut pieces of fruit.

A peeling apparatus for at least partially removing an external circumferential surface of an approximately cylindrical body is provided. The peeling apparatus includes: a C-shaped or C-like shaped base body, which has two free ends to form a peripheral opening, the cylindrical body being insertable between the two free ends and positionable concentrically in relation to a center of an incircle defined by the internal face of the base body; at least one external bearing mounted on an external axis positioned at each of the free ends, the external bearing abutting the cylindrical body when the body is positioned concentrically in relation to the center of the incircle; at least one central bearing attached to or positioned on the base body, spaced apart from the free ends and on a central axis; and a blade holder into which a blade is insertable so that the blade extends beyond the incircle.

The present invention relates to a device which is for peeling fruits and root vegetables and has the effect of easily removing the entire peel of a fruit or root vegetable at once so that none of the peel remains, and cutting the fruit or root vegetable into multiple pieces.

An apparatus for preparing fruit includes a main housing with a cutting area containing a cutting assembly and a drive assembly, a removable cup assembly for inserting the fruit into the apparatus, and a removable drawer and tray for removing cut pieces of fruit from the apparatus after a cutting operation. The apparatus includes a rinsing assembly for cleaning the fruit and the cutting assembly, and a deflector configured to route cut pieces of fruit into the tray and waste material through a disposal outlet. The cutting assembly is configured to perform one or more cutting operations depending on the type of fruit detected in the cup assembly: wedging for apples, lemons, limes, and pears, and cutting/peeling for oranges and grapefruits. The apparatus quickly prepares various fruits for consumption without requiring an operator to touch the cut pieces of fruit.

Machines are provided for removing masking from regions of glazing panes. Also provided are methods of removing masking from regions of glazing panes. The machines can include a head assembly and a processing station. The head assembly can have various combinations and/or configurations of features, including one or more of a plurality of cutters, a plurality of belts, and at least one pressurized gas nozzle.

A pipe coating removal apparatus (1) for removing all or some of the coating on a pipe, the pipe coating removal apparatus (1) having a pipe support means (2) for supporting a length of pipe. and further having a tool carriage (3). The tool carriage (3) being capable of supporting two or more different types of pipe coating removal tools (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (80), (81), (82) and/or (70). The pipe coating removal apparatus (1) being capable of causing relative movement between the tool carriage (3) and the pipe support means (2) to remove all or some of the coating on the pipe that is supportable by the pipe support means (2).

Provided is a kitchen utensil which can respond to an object having any shape. A kitchen utensil (10) according to the present invention has a holding portion (12) and a blade member (15) having a blade (17) supported by the holding portion, and the blade is protruded forward of the holding portion.

An ultrasonic cutter cuts edge chamfers of plate-shaped workpieces using a cutter head which forms an axis of rotation and a blade which extends from the cutter head and forms a cutting wedge, terminating in a straight cutting edge, between flank and contact faces determined by the wedge angle. In order to create advantageous structural conditions, the axis of rotation extending on the blade side of the flank face is at a distance from the flank face which is equal to or greater than the distance of the center of mass of the blade from the flank face and the cutting edge, extending in the direction of the axis of rotation, extends at a distance from the axis of rotation which corresponds at most to the blade thickness.

A device for removing a thin outer layer from the surface of a cartridge or tubular container such as a caulk cartridge for removal of ink, contaminant, adhesive, or printed or stamped label from the outside of the cartridge. The apparatus includes cartridge hopper and a cartridge handling mandrel or plunger which automatically removes a cartridge from the hopper aligning same for insertion of the cartridge axially through the throat of a spinning ring which contains at least one and preferably a plurality of inwardly extending knifes. The spinning knife distal end trims or peels off the label, adhesive, ink, imperfections, or even a thin film from an outer layer of a selected thickness effectively reconditioning the cartridge for reuse to be filled with virgin material or to be used as uncontaminated re-ground material to be sold as scrap.

A method and apparatus for use in surface delayering for fault isolation and defect localization of a sample work piece is provided. More particularly, a method and apparatus for mechanically peeling of one or more layers from the sample in a rapid, controlled, and accurate manner is provided. A programmable actuator includes a delayering probe tip with a cutting edge that is shaped to quickly and accurately peel away a layer of material from a sample. The cutting face of the delayering probe tip is configured so that each peeling step peels away an area of material having a linear dimension substantially equal to the linear dimension of the delayering probe tip cutting face. The surface delayering may take place inside a vacuum chamber so that the target area of the sample can be observed in-situ with FIB/SEM imaging.