Single head juice extractor

A juice extractor having interdigitating upper and lower fruit cups for extracting juice from one fruit per machine cycle, said machine cycle being a machine cycle starting when said upper cup is at top dead center and finishing when said upper cup returns to top dead center, said juice extractor further comprising a strainer tube positioned below said lower fruit cup, an orifice tube supported for reciprocal movement by means of orifice tube drive linkage through said strainer tube, the improvement comprising drive means for moving said orifice tube through said strainer tube at least twice per machine cycle.