Juice extractor quick connect/disconnect coupling

A juice extractor comprising a rotatable inverted conical filter basket, a motor drive, a drive coupling means at the lower end of said basket for connecting and disconnecting said basket to and from said motor drive, coupling means including a drive assembly secured to said motor drive, a depending coaxial circular wall formation on said filter basket defining a circular recess adapted to receive said drive assembly which is secured to the upper end of a motor drive shaft, the inner surface of said wall formation being provided with a series for circumferentially spaced vertically extending slots having vertically disposed side edges and upwardly and outwardly inclined bottom edges, said drive assembly being generally circular in configuration and having top and bottom walls and a side wall having a series of equidistantly and circumferentially spaced vertical slots formed therein, radially disposed drive slugs slidably mounted in said drive assembly and biased outwardly through each of said slots for latching and driving engagement in one of said filter basket slots, vertically disposed side surfaces of said drive slugs at the outer ends thereof for torque-transmitting driving engagement with said vertically disposed side edges of said filter basket slots, upper and lower corners of the slot-engaging outer ends of said drive slugs being vertically beveled to define camming surfaces which engage said circular wall formation to displace said slugs inwardly upon connection and disconnection of said filter basket to and from said drive assembly.