APPARATUS FOR SCARIFYING PULSES SUCH AS FRESH PEAS

摘要

A machine for puncturing the skins of small pulses, particularly fresh peas which are to be air or freeze dried. The machine has a series of co-axial circular knife blades which are revolved at high speed while the peas are dropped through a gravity feed chute onto the edges of the blades, from which they rebound with their skins nicked by the blades. The feed chute is angularly adjustable relative to the blades to allow for variations in the size and quality of the peas or other pulses requiring slitting.