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Abstract

A machine for processing pod vegetables including a frame. A generally horizontal outer drum is rotatably mounted on the frame and is adapted to contain the pod vegetables being processed. The outer drum has an inwardly presented working surface adapted to interact with the pod vegetables to process them, the working surface having an ascending side and a descending side as the outer drum rotates. An inner drum is rotatably mounted on the frame, the longitudinal axis of the inner drum being oriented parallel to the longitudinal axis of the outer drum. The inner drum is adapted to rotate in the same direction as and at a higher rate of rotation than the outer drum, the inner drum having an outer surface. Pod vegetables rotating within the outer drum are carried upon the working surface up its ascending side for a selected distance at which point the pod vegetables fall away from the working surface and onto the outer surface of the inner drum, to be propelled by the rotation of the inner drum toward the descending side of the working surface.

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