DISPLACING APPARATUS WITH SERIAL CHAMBERS FOR USE WITH FOOD PRODUCT ROLL PEELER

摘要

A peeling apparatus and method using rotating rollers as a peeling bed includes a mechanism that moves food products through the peeling bed. The mechanism has multiple walls mounted to a continuous loop that is driven over the peeling bed to define cavities between each adjacent pair of walls. The walls' lower edges are spaced close to the rollers to prevent food products from exiting a cavity. One or more of the walls may have cleaners, such as spray nozzles connected to high pressure liquid, to clean particles from the rollers. The nozzles spray the particles off as the spray nozzles pass over the rollers during normal operation of the peeling apparatus.

主权项

1. A food product peeling apparatus with a plurality of rotatable rollers having substantially parallel axes of rotation and forming a bed adjacent the rollers, the apparatus comprising:
(a) multiple spaced dividers linked together in a continuous loop adjacent the food processing apparatus with at least some of the dividers disposed in the bed to define separate cavities configured to receive food product; and (b) a prime mover drivingly linked to the dividers for driving the dividers through at least the bed.