Hand cranked rotary cherry pitter - GIF

Hand cranked rotary cherry pitter.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...898#post160142
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...134#post126018
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...962#post164317

anyone know how it works?

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Originally Posted by desbromilow

anyone know how it works?

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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
Attachment 39958

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