Corn vegetable cutting machine

transversal

Hughes Equipment’s Corn Cutter is designed to cut up to 2 tph of husked sweet corn, providing precisely cut corn kernels. Sometimes the operators can run more than the 2 tph if all their equipment optimized. The system can either be manually fed, therefore eliminating the orienter, or fed through the use of a distribution conveyor. Ears of sweet corn are conveyed to the orienter which uses tension to correctly orient the ear for cutting. That is achieved through the use of a tilted conveyor, bringing the ears to an angled tension gate. If the ear is already oriented correctly, it will drop onto the cutter feed conveyor as is; if oriented backwards, the pinch point of the gate flips the ear around while dropping onto the conveyor. Kernels are cut off with either a No. 2 or No. 3 cutting head. The system self-clears any jams via an automatic reverse system. An optional cob pusher is available to clear broken pieces which may remain lodged in the knives when the system reverses.