Hand cranked rotary cherry pitter - GIF

[Jon]

Hand cranked rotary cherry pitter.




Previously:

Cherry pitting tool - photo
Olive pitting machine - video
Cherry shaker harvester - GIF

[desbromilow]

anyone know how it works?

[Frank S]

anyone know how it works?

Here is a still shot of one
nothing but a fly wheel with semi circular ribs the cherries are dropped in as the wheel rotates the ribs crush the cherries and force the pits out

[desbromilow]

so it relies on "squeezing" the flesh of the cherry through a gap smaller than the diameter of the pip, thereby forcing the pip/stone to stay inside the machine until it progresses out the spout on the LHS of the photo...

thanks,
Des