JPH10276897A - Food squeezer - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To miniaturize a food squeezer squeezing foods such as fruits, vegetables, or medical herb into a paste and squeezing fruit juice or the like out of the paste and enhance the squeezing efficiency. SOLUTION: The squeezer includes a grinding portion 3 grinding foods to be squeezed, such as fruits, vegetables, or medical herb, e.g. an apple 2, into a paste, and a separating portion 4 separating juice from the paste. The grinding portion 3 is formed by a cylindrical drum 5, having a number of scratching claws 7, 7...7 projected from its main body surface 6, and rotating about rotating shafts 9, 9 extending from the centers of both end faces 8, 8, while the separating portion 4 has a freely-rotating, upright cylindrical main body 12 made of a porous material such as a mesh or a porous plate, and has a scraping plate 14 which freely slides up and down along the interior wall surface 13 of the cylindrical main body 12. The grinding portion 3 and the separating portion 4 may be used singly or in combination. When they are used in combination, the separating portion 4 is placed under the grinding portion 3.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to grate of fruits, vegetables or herbs into a paste, and from this paste fruit juice,
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a juice extractor for squeezing vegetable juice or herbal juice, and more particularly, to a food juice extractor in which the size of the apparatus is reduced and the extraction rate is improved.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, as health consciousness has increased, fruit juice such as apples has been squeezed out of fruits such as apples or vegetable juices such as tomatoes and carrots by using a juice extractor. Various attempts have been made to squeeze herbal juices from vegetation and efficiently eat only fruits, vegetables and herbal extracts.

[0003] As the above-mentioned squeezer, the one having the structure shown in Fig. 5 has been generally and widely used. In FIG. 5, an instruction number 100 is a juice extractor, which includes a juice extracting unit 101 and a juice receiving unit 102.

[0004] The juice extractor 101 has a circular bottom plate 103 and this bottom plate 1
Side wall mesh 104 that expands in a tapered shape from above 03
And a grate board 105 laid on the bottom plate 103 to form a bowl shape as a whole.

[0005] As shown in FIG. 6, the grate board 105 has a circular shape that matches the bottom surface 103 of the juice extractor 101, and a large number of sharpenings 108 form a plurality of radial lines 109 on the surface thereof. It protrudes so that it does.

[0006] Inside the juice receiving portion 102, a juice extracting portion 101 is inserted so as to leave a gap between the bottom plate 103 and the bottom surface 106 of the juice receiving portion 102. To form a juice extractor 100 consisting of two layers of the juice receiver 102.

Further, a rotating rod 107 is provided on the circular bottom plate 103 of the juice extracting unit 101 so as to penetrate the bottom surface 106 of the juice receiving unit 102.
By the rotation of the rotating rod 107, the squeezing unit 101 rotates in the juice receiving unit 102.

[0008] The conventional juicer 100 having the above-described structure is operated as follows in juice extraction. First, the food to be squeezed, for example, an apple 110, is placed on a grate board 105. Next, when the rotating rod 107 is rotated in the direction of the arrow to rotate the juice extractor 101, the grate board 105 is also rotated in the direction of the arrow shown in FIG. As a result, the apple 110 on the grated board 105 has a large number of prominences 108 forming a line 109.
Grated into a paste.

The obtained paste is attached to the side wall mesh 104 by the rotational centrifugal force of the squeezing unit 101, and at the same time, only the fruit juice is separated into the juice receiving unit 102 through the side wall mesh 104. The separated juice is collected from the outlet 111, and the remaining paste residue is moved upward by a rotational centrifugal force along the tapered side wall mesh 104, though not shown, and is discharged to the outside.

[0010]

However, in the above-mentioned known juice extractor 100, the grate part is a disk-shaped grate disk 105, so that the width of the grate disk 105 is reduced as shown in FIG. The size of the device must be about twice as large as that of the apple 110 or more, and thus the size of the device itself is increased.

[0011] In addition, although the outer peripheral portion of the grate board 105 can be efficiently grated, the inner peripheral portion has a small diameter, so that it rotates at a low speed, and the efficiency of the grate becomes poor.

Further, since the side wall mesh 104 expands in a tapered shape, the paste attached thereto is discharged to the outside along the taper before being sufficiently squeezed.

Further, if the side wall mesh 104 is not tapered, but close to a right angle, the paste residue is not discharged to the outside but remains inside.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to reduce the size of the apparatus and to sufficiently extract the juice, and also to discharge the paste residue completely to the outside. It is an object of the present invention to provide a food squeezing machine in which the disadvantages of the prior art are improved.

[0015]

According to the present invention, there is provided, in accordance with the present invention, a grate for grated food to be squeezed into a paste, and a method for removing juice from the grated paste. A separating section for separating, wherein the grated section is formed of a cylindrical drum that has a number of scratching claws protrudingly provided on the surface of the main body and rotates around a rotation axis extending from the center of both end faces as a central axis, and should be squeezed. It is characterized in that food is placed on the surface of a cylindrical drum body on which a number of scratching claws are projected, and the drum is rotated and grated by being scratched by the scratching claws.

Furthermore, in order to achieve the above-mentioned object, according to the present invention, a grate for grated food to be squeezed to form a paste, and a separation unit for separating juice from the grated paste The separating portion comprises a rotatable upright cylindrical body made of a porous material, and a scraping plate slidable up and down along an inner wall surface of the cylindrical body, and the grated part is provided. The paste is stored in a cylindrical main body, and by rotating the cylindrical main body, the juice is centrifuged to the outside of the main body from the paste through the porosity of the porous material, and the paste residue from which the juice is separated is removed from the cylindrical main body. The paste is attached to the inner wall surface, and the scraping plate is slid upward along the inner wall surface so that the paste residue adhering to the inner wall surface is pushed outward from the top of the cylindrical main body.

Furthermore, in order to achieve the above-mentioned object,
According to the present invention, the grated food is provided with a grated portion to grate the food to be squeezed into a paste, and a separation portion for separating the juice from the grated paste, wherein the grated portion has a large number on the surface of the main body. A rotatable upright cylindrical main body made of a porous material, and a rotatable upright cylindrical main body made of a porous material; A scraper plate slidable up and down along the inner wall surface of the main body, disposed below the grated part, and provided with a large number of scratching claws projecting food to be squeezed. Is placed on the surface of the main body of the cylindrical drum, the drum is rotated and grated by scratching with the scratching claws, the grated paste is dropped and stored in the cylindrical main body, and the paste is rotated by rotating the cylindrical main body. From the porosity By centrifuging the juice to the outside of the cylindrical body through the porosity of the raw material, attaching the paste residue separated from the juice to the inner wall surface of the cylindrical body, and sliding the scraping plate upward along the inner wall surface, The present invention is characterized in that the paste residue adhered to the inner wall surface is pushed outward from the top of the cylindrical main body.

[0018]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of one embodiment of the juice extractor according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of one embodiment of the separating section according to the present invention, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a plan view of the upper lid, and FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view showing a state in which the paste residue of the juice extractor of FIG. 1 is discharged.

As shown in FIG. 1, a juice extractor 1 of the present invention comprises a grated portion 3 for grated food, for example, an apple 2, which is grated into a paste, and juice from the grated paste. For example, it comprises a separation unit 4 for separating fruit juice.

The food to be squeezed using the squeezing machine 1 of the present invention is, for example, fruits, vegetables, herbs and the like. Fruits include apples, pears, citrus fruits, strawberries, cherries, grapes, peaches, melons and the like, and vegetables include lettuce, beets, watercress, cabbage, garlic, peppers, carrots, radishes
Examples include tomato, green perilla, komatsuna, spinach, celery, parsley, and the like, and examples of herbs include aloe, dokudami, and the like.

The grated part 3 is composed of a cylindrical drum 5 as clearly shown in FIGS. On the surface 6 of the main body of the cylindrical drum 5, a large number of scratching claws 7,
7 are protruded so as to form a plurality of parallel lines along the central axis. These scratching claws 7, 7
... 7 may be formed to stand out from the surface 6 of the main body,
It may be molded integrally with the main body surface 6, or may be separately attached on the main body surface 6, and can be formed by any means.

Further, from the centers of both end faces 8, 8 of the cylindrical drum 5, rotating shafts 9, 9 extend outward. The rotating shafts 9 and 9 may be a single shaft rod penetrating along the central axis of the cylindrical drum 5, or two shaft rods separately extending from the centers of both end faces 8 and 8. You may.

The cylindrical drum 5 constructed as described above has a horizontal shaft 9 and a central shaft 9 by suspending the rotating shafts 9 between the opposing wall members 10 respectively. It is rotatably arranged as.

In operation of the cylindrical drum 5, the apple 2 to be squeezed is placed on the body surface 6 on which a number of scratching claws 7, 7,... The cylindrical drum 5 is rotated while pressing the apple 2 in the direction of the arrow with the holding plate 11, and the apple 2 is
Is scraped and grated to form a paste, which is guided to the separating section 4 to separate the juice from the paste.

As shown in FIGS. 1 to 4, the separating portion 4 includes an upright cylindrical main body 12 and an inner wall surface 13 of the cylindrical main body 12.
And a scraping plate 14 slidable up and down along the box.

The cylindrical body 12 has a side wall formed of a porous material such as a mesh or a perforated plate, has a bottom plate 17, and is formed in a cylindrical shape with an open top 19. The cylindrical main body 12 thus formed is housed in the juice receiving box 16 such that the central axis is vertical and is rotatable about the central axis.

The scraping plate 14 is arranged on the bottom plate 17, and the bottom plate 17
The operation rod 18 is slid up and down along the inner wall surface 13 of the cylindrical main body 12 and is rotatably operated by the operation rod 18 installed through the pipe 17.

The top portion 19 of the cylindrical main body 12 is further provided with a paste residue discharging portion 20 as shown in FIG. The paste residue discharging section 20 includes a substrate 21 and an upper lid 22 disposed on the substrate 21 and has a residue discharging hole 26.

The substrate 21 is connected to the top 19 of the tubular main body 12,
23 are provided at a position on the substrate 21 which is rotatable with the rotation of the cylindrical main body 12 and corresponds to a groove 24 of the upper lid 22 described later.

As shown in FIG. 3, the upper lid 22 has a groove 24 and a hole 25 in the center. By disposing such an upper lid 22 on the substrate 21, the groove 24 becomes a discharge hole 26 to form a paste residue discharge unit 20.

The separating section 4 having the above-described structure is operated as follows. First, the paste grated by the grated part 3 is stored in the cylindrical main body 12. Then
By rotating the cylindrical body 12, the juice is centrifuged into the juice receiving box 16 through the porous material of the cylindrical body 12. Soup tray 16
The juice separated by centrifugation is taken out from the outlet 15 as juice.

The paste residue 27 from which the juice has been separated adheres to the inner wall surface 13 of the cylindrical main body 12. At this time, as shown in FIG. 4, when the scraping plate 14 is slid upward along the inner wall surface 13, the paste residue 27 adhered to the inner wall surface 13 becomes cylindrical body.
From the top 19 of the substrate 12, it is pushed out into a residue discharge hole 26 on the substrate 21.

Since the substrate 21 rotates with the rotation of the main body 12, the discharge plates 23, 23,.
Rotates with 21. Therefore, the paste residue 27 extruded into the residue discharge hole 26 is pushed and moved by the discharge plates 23, 23,..., And is discharged from the residue discharge port 28 to the outside.

The scraping plate 14 rotates in a direction opposite to the rotation of the cylindrical main body 12, so that the paste residue 27 attached to the inner wall surface 13 of the cylindrical main body 12 can be easily scraped off.

The above-mentioned grated part 3 and separation part 4 can be used separately, or can be used in combination. That is, the above-mentioned grated part 3 according to the present invention may be used as the grated part, and another known structure may be combined as the separating part. Alternatively, the separating part 4 according to the present invention described above may be used as the separating part. The grated part may be used in combination with another known structure, and further, the grated part 3 according to the present invention described above and the separation part 4 may be combined.

Here, the grated part 3 according to the present invention
The following is a detailed description of an embodiment in which the separation unit 4 and the separation unit 4 are combined.

As described above, the grated portion 3 has a large number of scratching claws 7, 7... 7 protruding from the main body surface 6, and has a rotating shaft 9, 9 extending from the center of both end surfaces 8, 8 as a central axis. And a cylindrical drum 5 that rotates. (See FIG. 1 above.
And FIG. 4)

As described above, the separating section 4 is a rotatable upright cylindrical main body made of a porous material such as a mesh or a perforated plate.
It comprises a scraper 14 which is slidable up and down along an inner wall surface 13 of the tubular main body 12. (See FIGS. 1 to 4 above)

The grated part 3 and the separating part 4 configured as described above are combined by disposing the separating part 4 below the grated part 3 as shown in FIGS.

The juice extractor 1 of the present invention comprising the above combination
In operation, as shown in FIG. 1, an apple 2 which is a food to be squeezed is arranged on a body surface 6 having a large number of scratching claws 7, 7,... Apple 2 by
7 is pressed in the direction of the arrow to rotate the cylindrical drum 5, and the apple 2 is scraped by the scratching claws 7, 7.

The paste thus grated is dropped from the top 19 through the hole 25 into the inside of the tubular main body 12 and stored. Next, by rotating the cylindrical body 12, the fruit juice passes through a porous material forming the side wall of the cylindrical body 12, for example, a mesh, a porous plate or the like, outside the cylindrical body 12, that is, in the juice receiving box 16. Centrifuge and take out from outlet 15 as fruit juice.

The paste residue 27 from which the juice has been separated adheres to the inner wall surface 13 of the cylindrical main body 12. Next, when the scraping plate 14 is slid upward along the inner wall surface 13 while rotating the tubular body 12 in the opposite direction to the rotation of the tubular body 12 while keeping the tubular body 12 rotating, as shown in FIG. As described above, the paste residue 27 is pushed out onto the substrate 21 from the top portion 19 of the tubular main body 12, and is discharged to the outside through the residue discharge port 28 in the same manner as described above.

[0044]

The juice extractor of the present invention as described above has the following effects.

Unlike the conventional disc-shaped grated disc 105 shown in FIG. 5, the grated portion 3 is constituted by a cylindrical drum, and the length of the drum is increased by the width of the food to be squeezed. Is sufficient, the diameter can be reduced to half of the conventional disk diameter, and the apparatus can be downsized.

In addition, although it can be grated efficiently at the outer peripheral portion as in the conventional disk shape, there is no disadvantage that the grit efficiency is poor at the inner peripheral portion, and the entire grated portion 3 can be uniformly and efficiently grated. And the squeezing efficiency is improved.

Further, since the separating section 4 is not formed in a tapered shape as in the prior art, but is constituted by a cylindrical body such as a cylinder, which is upright at a right angle, the diameter of the separating section 4 becomes small and the apparatus can be downsized. Is done.

Moreover, since the paste adheres to the upright inner wall surface and is centrifuged, unlike the conventional method, the paste is not discharged to the outside along the taper without being sufficiently squeezed. Juice is sufficiently squeezed by centrifugation in a state of being adhered to the squeezer, and the squeezing efficiency is improved in the same manner as in the above-mentioned grated part. The paste residue adhering to the inner wall surface is easily discharged by sliding the scraper along the inner wall surface.

Further, in the present invention, by combining the grated part 3 and the separation part 4, the above-mentioned effects can be further achieved. That is, in the present invention, the apparatus is further miniaturized by the combination of the grated part 3 and the separation part 4, and the juice is efficiently squeezed, not only the juice efficiency is considerably improved, but also the squeeze operation is simplified. You.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of one specific example of a juice extractor according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view of a specific example of a separation unit according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a plan view of an upper lid of a separation unit in FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view illustrating a state in which paste waste is discharged from the juice extracting machine of FIG.

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of a known juice extractor.

FIG. 6 is a plan view of the grater used in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Juice extractor of this invention 2 Apple 3 Grated part 4 Separation part 5 Cylindrical drum 6 Main body surface 7 Scratch nail 8 End surface 9 Rotation axis 12 Cylindrical main body 13 Inner wall surface 14 Scrape plate 19 Top 27 Paste residue

Claims (6)

[Claims] Claims: 1. A grate for grated food to be squeezed to form a paste, and a separation unit for separating the juice from the grated paste, wherein the grated part has a large number on the surface of the main body. Scratch claws are protruded and consist of a cylindrical drum that rotates around a rotation axis extending from the center of both end surfaces, and the food to be squeezed is arranged on the surface of the cylindrical drum body where a large number of scratch claws are protruded. A food squeezing machine wherein the drum is rotated and grated by being scratched by the scratching nail. 2. A grate for grated food to be squeezed to form a paste, and a separation unit for separating the juice from the grated paste, wherein the separation unit is made of a porous material. A flexible upright cylindrical main body, and a scraping plate slidable up and down along the inner wall surface of the cylindrical main body. The grated paste is stored in the cylindrical main body. By rotating the main body, the juice is centrifuged to the outside of the main body from the paste through the pores of the porous material, and the paste residue separated from the juice is attached to the inner wall surface of the cylindrical main body, and the scraping plate is attached to the inner wall surface. A food squeezing machine characterized in that paste scum adhering to an inner wall surface is pushed outward from a top of a cylindrical main body by sliding upward along the same. 3. A grated part to grate the food to be squeezed into a paste, and a separation part for separating the juice from the grated paste, wherein the grated part has a large number on the surface of the main body. The separation unit comprises a rotatable upright cylindrical main body made of a porous material, and a rotatable upright cylindrical main body made of a porous material. A scraper plate slidable up and down along the inner wall surface of the main body, disposed below the grated part, and provided with a number of scratching claws projecting food to be squeezed. Placed on the surface of the drum body, grated by rotating the drum and scratching with the scratching claw, dropping and storing the grated paste in the cylindrical body, and rotating the cylindrical body to remove the paste. The porous material The juice is centrifuged to the outside of the cylindrical body through the pores, and the paste residue separated from the juice is adhered to the inner wall surface of the cylindrical body, and the scraping plate is slid upward along the inner wall surface, whereby A food squeezing machine characterized in that paste scum attached to a wall surface is pushed outward from the top of a cylindrical main body. 4. The food squeezing machine according to claim 1, wherein the food is a fruit, a vegetable or a herb. 5. The food juicer according to claim 1, wherein the cylindrical drum is horizontally arranged by suspending a rotating shaft. 6. The food squeezing machine according to claim 2, wherein the porous material is a mesh or a perforated plate.