OLIVE PITTING MACHINE AND METHOD TO PIT OLIVES USED BY SAID MACHINE

摘要

Olive pitting machine, comprising an olive feeder (2), and an olive carrier (3), which carries them to a pitting assembly (4) and a stone detaching device (16). The pitting machine has invalid olive detection means, selected between detection means of olives unfit for pitting, detection means of incorrectly de-stoned olives, and a combination of both, connected by means of a control system to expulsion means of the invalid olives, which expel said invalid olives through at least one outlet different from that of the correctly de-stoned olives. The present invention additionally consists of an olive pitting method comprising a detection of invalid olives through a procedure selected between a detection of olives unfit for pitting, during their transport, the detection of incorrectly de-stoned olives, after their pitting, and a combination of both of them.