US 6,202,547 B1Granted

Juicer having two cutters

OwnerRong-Yuan Tseng, Kuo-I Linginventors

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Abstract

A juicer having a stationary cutter and a rotary cutter is provided to fully grind fruit or vegetable fed into the juicer so that as much juice as possible is produced from the ground fruit or vegetable. The rotary cutter is mounted in a strainer basket and fixed onto a main shaft of an operating motor of the juicer so as to rotate along with the main shaft when the motor is started. The stationary cutter is fixedly connected to a lower end of a feed tube downward extended from a top cover of the juicer to closely locate above and face against the rotary cutter. The stationary and the rotary cutters are provided on lower and upper surfaces, respectively, with a plurality of cutter blades at an inner area and a grinding zone around an outer peripheral area. Any fruit or vegetable fed into the juicer via the feed tube is first ground between the two cutters by the cutter blades and any partially ground fruit or vegetable is then centrifugally moved to the peripheral grinding zones for further grinding to produce more juice before the resulting pulp is discharged from the juicer.

A juicer having two cutters, comprising a base, an operating motor mounted in said base and having an externally threaded main shaft upward projected from a top of said base, a working bowl connected to the top of said base and defining an inner receiving space with a spout formed at one lower side thereof, a conic strainer basket positioned in the receiving space defined by said working bowl and supported on a central top of said base with said main shaft of said operating motor upward projected from a bottom center of said strainer basket, a pulp cup positioned on said base to another side of said working bowl, a top cover located above said working bowl for covering said working bowl and said pulp cup and having a feed tube downward extended into said conic strainer basket, a stationary cutter fixedly connected to a lower end of said feed tube of said top cover, and a rotary cutter having a predetermined thickness and being adapted to locate in said conic strainer basket above said main shaft;

said rotary cutter being formed at central potion with a recess in which an axially extended threaded hole is provided for a fastening means to extend therethrough to fasten said rotary cutter to said main shaft in said conic strainer basket, whereby said rotary cutter rotates along with said main shaft when said operating motor is started, and said rotary cutter being provided on an upper surface at an inner area with a plurality of first cutter blades and around an outer peripheral area with a first annular grinding zone having a predetermined width;
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said stationary cutter being a round member having a smaller thickness compared with said rotary cutter, said stationary cutter being formed of an eccentric connecting hole corresponding to said feed tube downward extended from said top cover, said stationary cutter being connected to the lower end of said feed tube of said top cover by engaging said eccentric hole with the lower end of said feed tube, and said stationary cutter being provided on a lower surface at an inner area with a plurality of second cutter blades and around an outer peripheral area with a second annular grinding zone having a predetermined width.

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