Purpose

The Peach Pitter 300-A  is designed to feed, align and pit freestone and clingstone peaches at a rate of up to 320 fruit per minute.

Operation/Construction

Peaches are received into the feed hopper where they are automatically singled out and fed into cups on a conveyor. As the conveyor travels through the aligning section, the peaches are rotated by aligning wheels which protrude through holes in the bottom of the cups. As the cavity of the fruit is found by an aligning wheel, the peach ceases to rotate. From the cavity finding section the fruit passes over 3 suture finding station in which the suture of the fruit are aligned to the plane of the splitting knives. At the pitting station, knives entering the fruit from both top and bottom rotate, separating the pit from the flesh. Simultaneously, a splitting knife cuts the fruit into halves.

Features/Benefits

Reduced Labor Requirements

minimum rework is required as a result of the knife pitting principle. Near zero rework required on freestone peaches even during heavy split or stick-pit incidences.

Increased Grade Quality

Superior alignment efficiency, combined with gentle handling of soft fruit results in the greatest possible number of selected halves.

Low Cost Maintenance/Minimum Downtime

due to the simplicity of the design of this multiple lane knife pitter, high mechanical reliability is achieved.

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