Citrus fruit juice separator with pouring accessory
AssigneeSeb S.A.
InventorAntonio Basora
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Abstract
An electric juicer having a housing, or case, a juice receptacle arranged on the case, a pouring accessory disposed on the receptacle and a juicer cone. The case contains a motor for rotating the cone through the intermediary of a transmission, the pouring accessory has a bottom permitting gravity flow of the collected juice toward a lateral flow outlet, and the bottom has an opening providing for the passage of the transmission. In accordance with the invention, the pouring accessory has a transmission axis, or shaft, belonging to the transmission, the shaft being mounted for free rotation in the opening. This arrangement permits the juicer to be used with or without the pouring accessory.
Claims14
An electric juicer comprising:
- a case;
- a juice receptacle arranged on said case;
- a pouring accessory arranged to be disposed on said receptacle;
- a juicer cone;
- and
- a filter sieve that is structurally independent of said pouring accessory, said filter sieve being disposed under said juicer cone,
- wherein:
- said case contains means including a transmission for rotating said cone,
- said pouring accessory has a lateral flow outlet and a bottom permitting gravity flow of juice collected in said accessory toward said lateral flow outlet,
- said bottom of said accessory has an opening for passage of the transmission,
- said accessory has a transmission shaft, belonging to the transmission, and
- said transmission shaft is mounted to be freely rotatable in said opening in said bottom of said accessory.
An electric juicer comprising:
- a case;
- a juice receptacle arranged on said case;
- a pouring accessory arranged to disposed on said receptacle;
- and
- a juicer cone,
- wherein:
- said case contains means including a transmission for rotating said cone,
- said pouring accessory has a lateral flow outlet and a bottom permitting gravity flow of juice collected in said accessory toward said lateral flow outlet,
- said bottom of said accessory has an opening for passage of the transmission;
- said accessory has a transmission shaft, belonging to the transmission,
- said transmission shaft is mounted to be freely rotatable in said opening in said bottom of said accessory,
- said juice receptacle has a tube for the passage of a drive shaft forming part of the transmission, and
- said pouring accessory has, around said opening in said bottom of said accessory, a non-circular annular structure that is configured to cooperate with a non-circular upper part of said tube.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.