US 11,903,402 B2
Fruit press
Engelbert Kaindl, Steyr (AT)
Assigned to Citrocasa GmbH, Linz (AT)
Appl. No. 17/441,313
Filed by Citrocasa GmbH, Linz (AT)
PCT Filed Mar. 31, 2020, PCT No. PCT/AT2020/060134
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 21, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/198773, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 8, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. A 50281/2019 (AT), filed on Apr. 1, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0160015 A1, May 26, 2022
Int. Cl. B30B 9/04 (2006.01); A23N 1/02 (2006.01); A47J 19/02 (2006.01)
CPC A23N 1/02 (2013.01) [A47J 19/02 (2013.01); B30B 9/045 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fruit press, comprising:
a frame having parallel shafts therein;
pressing rollers that are driven in opposite directions, each of the pressing rollers having pressing recesses formed around a circumference of the pressing roller and mounted on the respective shafts;
ram heads provided below the pressing rollers and driven in opposite directions to the pressing rollers to form pressing rams that interact with the pressing recesses of the pressing rollers, the ram heads mounted on the shafts that are spaced from the shafts of the pressing rollers;
a blade that is displaceable in a blade guide between the pressing rollers, wherein the pressing rollers and the ram heads are removeable from the shafts and are held between a rear wall and a front mount of a handling unit detachably fastened to the frame, wherein the front mount rigidly connected to the rear wall by spacers, wherein the pressing rollers and the ram heads are supported axially on the front mount and are detachably held between bearing projections of the rear wall and receptacles in a region of the front mount, and wherein the receptacles for the pressing rollers and the ram heads in the region of the front mount are provided with radial insertion elongated slots for axial supporting projections of the pressing rollers and the ram heads, and wherein the rear wall or the front mount of the handling unit includes the blade guide with the blade.