A device for gripping drupes to grasp tightly the convex outer surface of a peach or the like around the latter on one side of a plane that bisects said peach, to torsion a half of the body thereof separating it from the bone there is. Therein, said device comprising an annular row of peach gripping fingers having peach gripping surfaces that look generally radially inwardly relative to the central axis of the row and means connecting the fingers of said row, including half portions of each of said fingers expandable substantially uniformly in the circumferential direction as radially outward movement of said fingers with respect to the axis of the row takes place and contractile substantially uniformly upon movement radially inwardly of said two, to keep said fingers spaced apart substantially equally and said movement radially outwardly and during said radially inward movement. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)
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