Live knife assembly

摘要

A rotary live knife assembly includes a directionally biased shaft housing with a rotary peeling cutter mounted on a shaft within the housing, a chip breaker also mounted on the shaft and a guard on the shaft housing for adjusting the depth of cut made by the cutter into a piece of fruit during a peeling operation. The guard is positively positioned on the shaft housing relative to the direction of shaft housing bias and the guard has a peel shearing surface facing upstanding blades of the chip breaker to sever removed peelings into small pieces by a scissor-like action.