Fruit and vegetable skin patterned oxidizer

• US 20190320704A1
• Filed: 12/13/2018
• Published: 10/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Peter Stine
• Original Assignee: Peter Stine
• Inventors: Stine, Peter
• Granted Patent: US 11,178,896 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A23N 15/06 Devices for other treatment of fruit, e.g. marking, maturing, polishing

Abstract

A device, which can be used to convey a message on the skin of fruits and/or vegetables, the device having at least one prong capable of piercing the skin of a fruit and/or vegetable and connected to a rigid base that limits the depth the prong pierces the skin of the fruit and/or vegetable. The prongs may be configured in the mirror inverse shape of a character, symbol, picture and/or pattern. The device may be used to convey messages or designs on the skin of bananas.

Claims

1. An oxidizing device comprising:

at least one prong, wherein said at least one prong protrudes substantially perpendicular from a rigid base and is configured to pierce the skin of a fruit and/or vegetable to allow localized oxidation of the fruit and/or vegetable at the location of the piercing; and

wherein said base is adapted for uniformly limiting the depth said at least one prong pierces the skin of a fruit and/or vegetable.

2. The patterned oxidizing device of claim 1, wherein said base is cylindrical.

3. The patterned oxidizing device of claim 1, wherein said base is flat.

4. The patterned oxidizing device of claim 1, wherein said at least one prong protrudes from said base at a height that, after piercing the skin, locally oxidizes said fruit and/or vegetable while causing minimal spoilage of the fruit and/or vegetable.

5. The patterned oxidizing device of claim 1, wherein said at least one prong protrudes from said base at a height range between one millimeter and five millimeters.

6. The patterned oxidizing device of claim 1, wherein a plurality of said prongs are arranged on said base in a mirror inverse image of a character, symbol, picture, or pattern.

7. The patterned oxidizing device of claim 6, wherein said prongs and said base are made out of plastic.

8. The patterned oxidizing device of claim 6, wherein said prongs and said base are made out of metal.

9. The patterned oxidizing device of claim 6, wherein said prongs and said base are made out of a ceramic material.