Citrus juice machine
AssigneeZummo Innovaciones Mecanicas, S.A.
InventorsEugenio CONTELL ALBERT, Jorge MARTINEZ ROCA
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Abstract
Citrus juice machine with a fruit feed chute, fruit cutting and squeezing means and a peel collection tray. The cutting and squeezing means have a fruit reception cup, located below the fruit feed chute; devices to initiate the rotation of the cup between a vertical fruit reception position and an inverted position; a horizontal tilting blade facing the rotating trajectory of the cup to cut the fruit in an upper and lower half; a retaining stop for the upper half of the fruit; a ramp to support the lower half of the fruit during the rotation of the cup from its vertical position to an inverted position; a squeezing ball located below the cup.
Claims10
A citrus juice machine comprising:
- a fruit feed chute;
- a fruit cutting and squeezing means, the fruit cutting and squeezing means comprising:
- a fruit reception cup located below the fruit feed chute,
- means for initiating rotation of the fruit reception cup between a vertical fruit reception position and an inverted position,
- a horizontal tilting blade facing the rotation trajectory of the fruit reception cup to cut the fruit in an upper half and a lower half,
- a retaining stop for the upper half of the fruit,
- a ramp to support the lower half of the fruit during the rotation of the fruit reception cup from the vertical position to the inverted position,
- a squeezing ball located below the cup, and
- means for vertically displacing the cup in the inverted position and the ramp in a synchronized manner from the upper inverted position of fruit reception cup to the lower position wherein it presses the lower half of the fruit housed in said cup against the squeezing ball;
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- a peel collection tray.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.