Fruit and vegetable peeler

Claim 1

A peeler for a product, such as a fruit or vegetable, said peeler comprising: a rotating tool rotatable about an axis and movable in relation to the product so as to perform a cutting action on the surface of the product and mark on it successive parallel turns, said tool having a surface of revolution around said axis capable of coming into contact with the product to limit the depth of penetration of said cutting action into the product, said tool including at least one tooth, forming a projection extending radially beyond said surface of revolution to a predetermined extent in relation to said depth of penetration, said tool being driven in rotation about said axis at such a rotational speed that the tangential speed of said projection exceeds 8 m/s and in such a direction of rotation that said projection engages the skin of the product starting from an adjacent turn already peeled, a shaft of the rotating tool rotates in bearings of an assembly articulated about a perpendicular pivot pin relative to a holder which is itself movable about a holder axle perpendicular to said pivot pin so that a torque is exerted on the assembly so that the rotating tool operates sensitively, exerting on the product a force below 0.5 N and the product is driven in a relative helical movement in relation to the holder axle and said holder being driven about its axle so that at the start of a peeling cycle, the pivot pin forms with the axis of relative helical movement of the product, an initial angle in such a direction that the reaction force of the product on the rotating tool causes the rotating tool to move away obliquely so as to distance the rotating tool from said axis of relative helical movement, and that at the end of operation, said pivot pin forms with the axis of relative helical movement, a final angle in the opposite direction to the initial angle.