Fruit and vegetable juicer

US5479851A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Breville Pty Limited · AU

Inventors

• Stephen John McClean · Sydney, AU
• Richard W. Yallop · Sydney, AU

Key dates

• Filing date: May 3, 1995
• Grant date: Jan 2, 1996
• Expiry date: May 3, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A47J19/027
• WIPO field: Furniture, games
• WIPO sector: Other fields

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.