Juicer
AssigneeBreville Pty Limited
InventorsMark Anthony Thomas, Sebastien Tiburzio
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Abstract
A juicer for juicing fruit and vegetable products has a motorised base, and a collection container received by said base. The container has an opening and a lid to close the opening. The container has an inner juice chamber and an outer pulp chamber that at least partially surrounds the inner juice chamber. The inner juice chamber provides a wall portion at least partially separates the inner juice chamber. A filter basket is located within the container to receive the fruit and vegetable product. The filter basket is rotatable about a central axis and has a grating disc portion and a sieve portion.
Claims19
A juicer including:
- a motorised base;
- a collection container to be received by said base, the container having an opening to permit access to said container;
- a lid to close said opening of said container, said lid having a feed tube to receive product to be juiced;
- the motorised base having a surface adapted to receive said container and a drive mechanism protruding from said surface;
- the container having an inner juice chamber and an outer pulp chamber that at least partially surrounds the inner juice chamber, with said inner juice chamber providing a wall portion to at least partially separate the inner juice chamber from the outer pulp chamber, the outer pulp chamber having an outer wall spaced from the wall portion;
- a filter basket to be located within the container and in alignment with said feed tube to receive said product, the filter basket being rotatable about a central axis by the drive mechanism, the filter basket having a grating disc portion and a sieve portion, the grating disc portion being configured to separate the product into solid product and liquid product such that the solid product is ejected into the outer pulp chamber and the liquid product is ejected through the sieve portion into the inner juice chamber;
- and,
- a spout to discharge the liquid product from the container, the spout being integrally formed with the outer pulp chamber to extend from the wall portion at least partially separating the inner juice chamber and the outer pulp chamber, to the outer wall of the outer pulp chamber;
- wherein the spout is located toward the opening of the container and oriented in a direction away from the grating disc and the spout is positioned above the grating disc.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.