| 摘要 |
PCT No. PCT/GB96/02453 Sec. 371 Date May 22, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date May 22, 1998 PCT Filed Oct. 7, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO97/13418 PCT Pub. Date Apr. 17, 1997Apparatus for the automated removal of cores from vegetables, especially floretting vegetables, comprises a conveyor (13, 14) including vegetable supports (15) for indexed advancing of vegetables (35) from a loading station (A) to a cutting station (B) and a cutting head assembly comprising one or more cutter elements (23) movable in a core-excision cutting movement, in which the cutting head assembly is movable between a cutting position in registration with a vegetable support in the cutting station and a core discharge position displaced from the pass of the conveyor. The apparatus may be single- or multi-lane. The cutter blades may be formed as lobes (23) which retain the excised cores in the closed-together condition pending ejection at the discharge position. |
