| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fruit stem cutter capable of surely cutting a fruit stem without damaging a fruit with simple configuration that needs no drive source, and to provide a fruit stem cutting method and a fruit stem cutting apparatus. <P>SOLUTION: The fruit stem cutter 1 for cutting the fruit stem includes: a pair of blade parts 2 turning around a pair of parallel supporting shafts 20 and arranged with blade edges 22 facing each other; lower stopper parts 3 arranged below the pair of blade parts to determine the lower side movable range of the blade edges; and upper stopper parts 4 arranged above the pair of blade parts to determine the upper side movable range of the blade edges. The lower stopper parts 3 are arranged to support the blade edges 22 in positions where the opening width between the pair of blade edges 22 is smaller than the shoulder width of the fruit and larger than the diameter of the fruit stem. The fruit stem is inserted between the pair of blade edges 22 supported by the lower stopper parts 3, and the fruit stem is pulled upward. The pair of blade parts 2 in contact with the shoulder parts of the fruit thereby turn upward to cut the fruit stem. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT |
