Automated citrus fruit juice press

Foods and beverages: apparatus – Means to treat food – By isolating a fluid constituent

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99495, 100 98R, 100108, 100213, 100218, A23N 102, B30B 902

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051829843

ABSTRACT:
A pressing apparatus for citrus fruit including upright blades extending radially outwardly from a vertical axis to define V-shaped segments therebetween, the upper edges of the blades being sloped downwardly toward the axis to centrally support a piece of fruit. A press is vertically reciprocated between an upper feed position allowing fruit to be located on the blades and a lower pressing position a selected spacing above the peel ejectors. Peel ejectors within each of the V-shaped segments are pivotally supported for movement between (1) a horizontal ready position when the press is moved to the pressing position and (2) an ejecting position sloped downwardly away from the axis when the press is moved toward the feed position. A feed assembly cyclically feeds fruit to the blades through a chute, and includes a cylindrical enclosure open on one side to the chute and a feed drum supported for rotation about a horizontal axis within the enclosure. The drum includes a side opening, a feed chamber adjacent the side opening and substantially closed on both axial ends, and a staging chamber radially inward from the feed chamber and open thereto through a restricted opening, the staging chamber being substantially closed on one axial end and open on the other end.

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Zumex brochure "Automatic Orange Juice Press", date unknown.
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Hollymatic brochure "Hollymatic Dual 20 Juice Machine", date unknown.

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