A fruit juice extraction apparatus comprising:
- a. three fixed peeler cups attached to a chassis;
- b. three movable peeler cups corresponding to the three fixed peeler cups and forming three pairs of movable and fixed peeler cups placed in side by side arrangement;
- c. the movable peeler cups each being attached at one extremity of a single actuator providing advance and return motion directing the three movable peeler cups simultaneously toward and away from the respective three fixed peeler cups during a cycle of extraction of juice, which occurs simultaneously to a fruit disposed between each of the three respective pairs;
- d. the three movable peeler cups placed in parallel and being simultaneously driven by the actuator within an extraction module, linked in its mid position to a first movable member and linearly guided by lateral bearing supports which are pierced through by push rods slaved to this motion, and linked at its rear portion to a third movable member, that in turn, provides directed and simultaneous movement of the movable peeler cups against the fixed peeler cups;
- e. in synchronism with this movement, motion is transmitted to a feed actuation member that moves in a linear motion in a manner to actuate a feed actuation spring, so that when the pairs are separated, permitting a fruit to fall into respective semi-hemispherical chambers formed by the joining of the respective pairs;
- f. the movement of the movable peeler cups in turn closing over the fruit inside the chambers and thus cutting peel slivers, initiating a peeling process, and continuing on to extract juice by way of introducing fruit cores into three respective filtering devices cooperatively associated with the respective fixed peeler cups, the filtering devices each have a circular cutting point in their respective frontal openings, this permitting that the fruit cores enter into the filtering devices;
- g. the filtering devices comprising respective radial slits that make possible the extracted juice to flow out and be collected in an internal space formed at a junction of the fixed peeler cups and a juice collector, wherein upon return of the movable peeler cups, the third movable member is driven at its rear portion by being solidly linked to the push rods slaved to this motion;
- the third movable member in turn, is attached at its extremities to two parallel pull rods which are attached at their respective extremities to a second movable member, to which is solidly affixed three respective plungers, thereby directing said plungers through the respective filtering devices to push directly on the fruit cores until these are expelled there from, exiting through the frontal openings of the filtering devices;
- the fruit cores, now de-juiced, fall through the chambers formed by the fixed and movable peeler cups, and thus launch down toward a core collector duct in a manner such that the juice, peels and cores can respectively be directed to other stages of processing, and at the end of this cycle, with the movable peeler cups moved away from the fixed peeler cups, the apparatus is ready to initiate a new cycle of extraction of juice.