초록 ▼

Disclosed is a citrus fruit extractor of the type wherein a whole fruit is positioned in one of opposed interfitting cup halves which are provided with means for cutting the skin or rind at diametrically opposed areas. Concurrent movement of one or both cups toward each other compresses the fruit an

Disclosed is a citrus fruit extractor of the type wherein a whole fruit is positioned in one of opposed interfitting cup halves which are provided with means for cutting the skin or rind at diametrically opposed areas. Concurrent movement of one or both cups toward each other compresses the fruit and produces the diametrically opposed cuts. Cutting and compressing ruptures the juice sacks and the juice flows through one of the cut areas of the skin, through a screen and to a collecting trough. In its path to the trough, the juice makes little or no contact with the freshly cut surfaces of the skin.

대표청구항 ▼

An appartus for extracting juice from a whole citrus fruit of the type having opposed hemispherical cups of the character disclosed movable toward each other and in which a fruit is contained in one of the cups, said apparatus comprising means for cutting diametrically opposed generally circular por

An appartus for extracting juice from a whole citrus fruit of the type having opposed hemispherical cups of the character disclosed movable toward each other and in which a fruit is contained in one of the cups, said apparatus comprising means for cutting diametrically opposed generally circular portions from the rind as the cups move toward each their compressing the fruit therebetween, means carried by one of said opposed cups and in communication with the interior of the fruit for establishing a juice flow path to a juice collecting device, said flow path establishing means including an elongate aperture tubular member to allow passage of juice, means reciprocally mounted within said apertured tubular member for retaining said circular portions of the rind, said retaining means carried by a solid tubular member and maintaining the circular portions in a plane normal to the axis of said apertured tubular member, means for reciprocating the retaining means carried by said solid tubular member in synchronism with movement of the cups toward and away from each other, and means responsive to pressure resulting from compression of the fruit, against said circular portions carried by said retaining means for displacing said solid tubular member relative to said apertured tubular member.