Fruit and vegetable juicer

• US 5,479,851 A
• Filed: 05/03/1995
• Issued: 01/02/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Breville Pty Limited (Breville Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Breville Pty Limited (Breville Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yallop, Richard W., McClean, Stephen J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Simone, Timothy F.
• Application Number:
  US08/433,606
• Time in Patent Office: 244 Days
• Field of Search: 99/495, 99/510-513, 99/509, 99/484, 99/536, 210/360.1, 210/380.1, 210/369, 241/37.5, 241/92, 241/282.1, 241/282.2, 366/314, 366/601, 100/116
• US Class Current: 99/512
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 19/027 Centrifugal extractors

Abstract

A fruit and vegetable juicer has a rotatable horizontal grating disc integral with and surrounded by a substantially frusto-conical filter sieve the sides of which project upwardly and outwardly from the grating disk, a feed tube arranged above the disc and a food pusher insertable into the tube to press food down on to the grating disc for grating, pulp and juice thereby produced flying upwardly and outwardly, the juice passing through the filter and the pulp passing over the filter for subsequent collection. The juicer is characterized in that the feed tube has an internal diameter substantially the same as that of the grating disc, there being provided in the tube a knife or knives having an upwardly directed cutting edge, the knife or knives being attached to and supported by the tube, the food pusher being bifurcated or otherwise shaped to pass downwardly past the knife or knives, downward movement thereof causing an article of food to be cut by the cutting edge or edges of the knife or knives and pressed onto the grating disc, the food being held against rotation by the knife or knives.

Claims

1. A fruit and vegetable juicer, comprising a horizontal grating disc rotatable about a substantially vertical axis;

a substantially frusto-conical filter sieve surrounding said grating disc and being integral with said grating disc, said filter sieve having sides which project upwardly and outwardly from said grating disc;

a feed tube arranged above said grating disc;

a food pusher insertable into said feed tube and pressing fruit and vegetable down onto said grating disc for grating so that pulp and juice thereby produced fly upwardly and outwardly and the juice pass through said filter sieve while the pulp pass over said filter sieve for subsequent collection, said feed tube having an internal diameter which is substantially equal to a diameter of said grating disc;

at least one knife provided in said feed tube and having an upwardly directed cutting edge, said at least one knife being attached to and supported by said feed tube, said food pusher being formed so as to pass downwardly past said at least one knife so that a downward movement of said food pusher causes fruit and vegetables to be cut by said cutting edge of said at least one knife and pressed onto said grating disc, while said fruit and vegetable is held against rotation by said at least one knife.

2. A fruit and vegetable juicer as defined in claim 1, wherein said tube is provided with a plurality of such knives, said food pusher being formed so as to pass downwardly past said plurality of knives.

3. A fruit and vegetable juicer as defined in claim 1, wherein said food pusher is bifurcated so as to pass downwardly past said at least one knife.

4. A fruit and vegetable juicer as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising a grating dish having an axis, said grating dish having a center and being provided at said center with means for removing part of fruit or vegetable lying at least close to said axis of said grating dish.

5. A fruit and vegetable juicer as defined in claim 4, wherein said means for removing of said grating dish is formed as a means for abrading part of the fruit or vegetable.

6. A fruit and vegetable juicer as defined in claim 4, wherein said means for removing include a triangular piece having sharpened upper edges sloping upwardly to said axis of said grating disc.

7. A fruit and vegetable juicer as defined in claim 6, wherein said triangular piece is composed of steel.

8. A fruit and vegetable juicer as defined in claim 1, wherein said at least one knife includes at least two separate parts each attached to said feed tube and projecting into said tube, said grating disc being conical and having a surface sloping upwardly toward said axis.