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US 5,511,468 AGranted
Fruit juice extracting machine
AssigneeAutomatic Machinary and Electronics, Inc.
InventorsRonald C. Bushman, William E. Harris, Jr., Roger N. Foch
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AssigneeAutomatic Machinary and Electronics, Inc.
InventorsRonald C. Bushman, William E. Harris, Jr., Roger N. Foch
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A fruit juice extracting machine has a pair of opposing endless cup chains extending around a rotatable reamer wheel. The peel guide or retainer holds reamed peel halves in cup until ejector directs peel half into peel chute. A filler plate panel substantially closes off the reamer wheel to help to prevent the accumulation of stagnant juice or pulp. A peel chute behind the reamer wheel has a back surface with slotted opening to recover additional juice and pulp as the peels are ejected from the cup chain and collide against the back surface of the peel chute. The new cup track is a stiffer structure for maintaining the cup chain in proper engagement to the reamers, for improved yield and reduced wear. A full width bulkhead divides the juicing area from the peel chute area.
In a fruit juice extracting machine of the type having a pair of opposing endless cup chains extending around a reamer wheel rotatable about a horizontal axis and having a plurality of spaced apart reamers for reaming fruit halves contained in cups on the cup chains, with a peel chute positioned in between the cup chains and behind the reamer wheel, for collecting and channeling fruit peels ejected from the cups, the improvement comprising:
In a fruit juice extracting machine having an endless cup chain extending around a reamer wheel rotatable about a horizontal axis and having a plurality of spaced apart reamers for reaming fruit halves contained in cups on the cup chains, the improvement comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.