CCX extractor
AssigneeFMC Corporation
InventorGary O. Niemann
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Abstract
A curved cup juice extractor wherein the cup is composed of two matching sections of curved interdigitating fingers which move together arcuately to enclose and squeeze the whole fruit, during which the movement and release of the cup sections is controlled by a cam and a torsional spring, and a rapid fruit feeder system works on a principle of throwing the fruit into the curved cup as the cup opens.
Claims11
In a first squeezing mechanism of the type wherein the fruit is disposed in a chamber formed by the generally hemi-spherical cavities of two cup members which have fingers which interdigitate to progressively reduce the size of the chamber, the improvement which comprises drive means for moving one of said cup members toward and away from the other member along a short arcuate path between a cup-open position and a cup-closed position.
A fruit squeezing mechanism comprising a stationary support, a lower cup element mounted in fixed position on said support, said lower cup element having an upwardly-facing fruit-receiving cavity and an opening in the base of said cavity disposed on the arc of a circle generated about an axis, said lower cup also having a plurality of spaced fingers extending radially outwardly from said opening, and an upper cup element mounted for pivoting movement about said axis and having a central cavity and radially-extending fingers that interdigitate with the fingers of said lower cup element when said upper cup element is pivoted toward said lower cup element.
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