Fruit pitting apparatus

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR HALVING AND PITTING APRICOTS, PEACHES, AND LIKE FRUIT COMPRISING MEANS FORMING TWO OPPOSED FLAT ELONGATE SURFACES, SAID SURFACES SLANTING DOWNWARDLY AND INWARDLY TO FORM A TROUGH FOR CONVEYING THE FRUIT, SAID TROUGH HAVING AN INLET END AND AN OUTLET END AND BEING SLOPED WITH SAID OUTLET END AT A LEVEL HIGHER THAN SAID INLET END, SAID SURFACES DEFINING AN OBTUSE ANGLE AT SAID INLET END AND COVERGING CONTINUOUSLY TO DEFINE AN ACUTE ANGLE AT SAID OUTLET END SO THAT FRUIT TRAVERSING THE TROUGH WILL BE ALIGNED WITH THE SUTURE LINE THEREOF IN A VERTICAL PLANE, MEANS FOR SERIALLY FEEDING FRUIT TO SAID INELT END, MEANS FOR ROLLING FRUIT IN SAID TROUGH FROM SAID INLET END TO SAID OUTLET END, AND A VERTICAL KNIFE DEPENDING INTO SAID TROUGH AT SAID OUTLET END FOR CUTTING THE FRUIT.