Device for extracting juice from fruit and/or vegetable items

A device for extracting juice from fruit and/or vegetable items comprising:

• an items container arranged to hold at least one of said items;
• a grater unit arranged to grate the items into pulp;
• supply means arranged to supply items from the items container to the grater unit, wherein said grater unit comprises a movable perforated grater plate provided with apertures with sharpened rims arranged to cut the surface of said item, and a movable grating plunger arranged to press said item against said sharpened rims of the grater plate while said grater plate is being moved along a surface of the item, such that said item is being grated;
• a pressing chamber arranged to receive the pulp and to receive a movable pressing plunger for pressing juice from said pulp through a pressing sieve;
• and
• juice collecting means arranged to receive juice being pressed through said pressing sieve,
• wherein said pressing chamber comprises a circumferential wall and a pulp receiving opening at one outer end and a pulp ejection opening at its other outer end, said pressing chamber being arranged to be moved relative to said device in a repeating sequence to three different positions, said three positions being:
• a first position wherein the pulp receiving opening is located immediately adjacent the grater unit, such that in said position a grating step can take place wherein said pulp is received from the grater unit directly in the pressing chamber;
• a second position wherein the pulp receiving opening is located immediately adjacent the pressing plunger and the pulp ejection opening is located immediately adjacent the pressing sieve, such that in said position a pressing step can take place wherein said juice is pressed from the pulp through the sieve and into said juice collecting means;
• and
• a third position wherein the pulp ejection opening is in open communication with a container configured to collect pulp, such that in said position a pulp ejection step can take place wherein the pulp is removed from the pressing chamber through the ejection opening.