Abstract: A juice extractor uses two commonly driven crank arm drive systems to provide a low profile juice extractor.

Abstract: A device for continuously decaffeinating raw coffee includes a first extractor having at least one cell for use in a first treatment stage where raw coffee is preswollen by a swelling fluid that is added to the raw coffee. The at least one cell receives the raw coffee that is to be preswollen and is defined by a bottom and a plurality of sidewalls that extend towards one another to define a wedge-shaped cell. Additional similarly shaped cells and receiving chambers positioned below the cells may also be provided with a perforated bottom separating each cell from its respective receiving chamber.

Abstract: A low-cost strainer tube which can be quickly replaced in a citrus fruit juice extractor. The tube includes a hollow perforated sleeve which can be quickly inserted into a hollow body member and can be quickly removed. The sleeve has a plurality of groups of radial perforations which align with corresponding radial holes in the body member to allow juice to flow from an inside of the sleeve to an outside of the body member. To the amount of pulp which flows through the perforations it is necessary to remove only the sleeve and substitute another sleeve with different size perforations.

Abstract: A juicing apparatus includes a conveyor for delivering citrus fruit to the top of a truncated cone. The top of the cone defines a circular knife with a tube extending concentrically from the circular knife and through the convex cone. The fruit is centered on the convex cone by deflectable centering supports. A plurality of radially aligned knives are directed toward the upper portion of the convex cone. A concave cone is movably disposed over the fruit and over the convex cone. Downward movement of the concave cone causes a central cylindrical plug to be cut from each fruit and gently juiced in the tube extending from the circular knife. Further downward movement of the concave cone urges the fruit into the radially aligned knives and cuts the fruit into sections that can be squeezed and wiped against the outer surface of the convex cone.

Abstract: A continuous dewatering apparatus comprises left and right dewatering drum gears meshing with each other and disposed in a frame. Each of the drum gears is formed of a hollow cylindrical drum having many teeth formed on the periphery thereof. Many water passage holes are formed through the tooth crests and bottom lands of the teeth of the hollow drum. Left and right endless filter cloth belts are stretched around the drum gears and left and right roller groups disposed in the vicinity of the drum gears. The filter cloth belts may directly be adhered to the drum gears. The left and right drum gears and cloth belts are rotated together by a driving unit to mesh with each other. Objects such as sludge, fruits and vegetables and wastes of processed fruits and vegetables are continuously charged onto a meshing location of the drum gears and cloth belts to dewater the objects by pressing force of the meshing drum gears. As a result, the objects are continuously dewatered at a high dewatering rate.

Abstract: An extruder for treating high-oil-content material such as certain oilseeds, is used to prepare the material for later solvent extraction of oil from the material. The extruder has an elongate barrel and a rotating wormshaft therein which advances the material from an inlet hopper to a discharge die plate having at least one restricted orifice. As the material advances through a series of compaction worms, it is worked and compressed. Steam may be injected to raise the temperature and moisture content of the material. The pressure on the material is increased and is maintained sufficiently high so as to prevent any water content from vaporizing even if its vapor pressure significantly exceeds atmospheric pressure. The barrel wall includes a perforate or slotted section downstream from a solid wall section, and preferably immediately before or close to the discharge die plate.

Abstract: A device for extracting juice from oranges and other citrus fruits of various dimensions. The device is capable of capturing most of the juice within the fruit without juice leaking from the device onto the user.

Abstract: A press for expressing liquids from liquid-containing substances, especially musts, contains an at least partially cylindrical sieve wall and a pressing apparatus disposed therein which has a rotatable shaft and separators radially fastened to the latter which form a plurality of press chambers. These are separated by a radially acting pressing means into a pressure chamber and a press chamber. To fill and empty the press chambers a charging station and a discharge station are provided. The sieve wall is stationary and the pressure chambers are sealed hermetically one from the other. Lastly, means are provided for rotating the shaft step-wise and thereby placing the press chambers step-wise successively at the charging station and at the discharge station.

Abstract: Edible fats and oils are extracted from oil-bearing materials by loading the raw materials onto an inlet end of a flat and fixed conveying surface having elongate slits therein. The materials are conveyed from the inlet end to the outlet end of the conveying surface by scrapers moved by endless chains. Oil extracting solvent is sprayed onto the material on the conveying surface, to produce miscella, which flows through the slits in the surface and into hoppers beneath the surface. The miscella is circulated back to additional sprayers located upstream of the solvent sprayers for spraying the miscella onto the upstream end of the conveying surface. The resulting concentrated miscella is collected in hoppers beneath the surface and delivered to a further use.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process and an apparatus for extracting fat from an animal material in which according to the invention, the fat is continuously melted and then extracted by passing the animal material through two successive zones, namely a melting zone (B) and an extraction zone (C), of a single housing in the form of an elongate sleeve (1) equipped, in the melting zone (B), with heating means (13) and, in the extraction zone (C), with filtering walls (16) for the passage of the melted fat, the sleeve (1) encasing two overlapping conveyor screws (2) driven in rotation.

Abstract: A separating machine of a type having a foraminous drum with a resilient belt forming a nip therebetween includes a take-up, roller upstream of the nip, having an axis skewed with respect to an axis of the take-up roller. The wobbling motion of the take-up roller distorts the resilient belt sufficiently to overcome a tendency for entering items to bridge the nip.

Abstract: An improved juice drainage system is incorporated into the mash line of juice processing equipment. Fruit or other mash is pumped through a relatively large-diameter, generally horizontal mash pipe. A plurality of relatively smaller-diameter tubes or juice drainage elements are inserted into and intersect the mash pipe in generally perpendicular orientation at selected points along its length. These drainage elements include screens or other openings forming a drainage surface, preferably on the "downstream" side of the elements, so that juice from the mash flowing through the mash pipe passes through the openings and into the drainage element. The size and shape of the openings can be designed to control the juice drainage rate from any particular drainage element. In addition, the drainage elements themselves can be specifically sized, placed, and/or oriented along the mash pipe to impart the desired mixing characteristics to the flowing mash.

Abstract: A press particularly useful as a garlic press that includes a two-piece bowl having a plurality of holes through one surface thereof (e.g. the bottom surface). The bowl is preferably hinged along one side wall so that the bowl can be opened into two separate portions connected at the hinge. Each portion of the bowl includes a plurality of grooves on the contacting edges of the two portions. An arm is connected on the side of each bowl opposite the hinge, and when the two arms are brought together, the bottom surface of the bowl is unified with the grooves forming the openings in the bottom surface. A plunger depressed over the garlic minces the garlic or other pressable article placed in the bowl. Then the bowl may be opened about the hinge so as to permit the sidwall of the openings to be exposed for easy cleaning.

Abstract: A centrifugal finisher and method of its operation are disclosed for separating finished juice from an initial juice including substantial solids or for separating finished fluid from any slurry including substantial solids, the slurry being introduced into one end of a cylindrical screen driven in rotation for centrifugally urging the slurry against the screen and causing a fluid component to pass through the screen. Wiper paddles are arranged on a support drum for rotation in wiping contact with the screen and for limited movement relative to the screen for continuously moving solid material from the slurry toward an outlet axial end of the screen.

Abstract: A salad spinner dryer attachment is provided for a food processor having a base housing containing an electrical motor drive with a deck located on top of the base housing for removably mounting a working bowl thereon in predetermined engaged fixed position and having a tool drive shaft projecting vertically above the deck which drive shaft is rotatable by the motor drive at a first rotational speed around a main vertical axis of rotation. The attachement has an upstanding auxiliary bowl removably mountable upon the deck in place of the working bowl in the predetermined engaged fixed position. This auxiliary bowl has an uninterrupted side wall and a bottom trough for catching and holding any water which drains down its inside surface. A slotted basket is rotatably mountable in the auxiliary bowl to rotate around the main vertical axis at a second rotational speed substantially less than the first rotational speed of the tool drive shaft.

Abstract: A filter is described which is particularly designed for use in a high pressure separating press, e.g. a cocoa press, so as to considerably increase the useful life of the filter by avoiding breakage of metal screen components. The filter is characterized by positioning of the screen components in a metal ring provided with a peripheral flange which extends in a radially inward direction towards the axis of the filter, the inner diameter of which flange differs from the inner diameter of the ring by about half the difference between the diameter of the pitch circle of the outer groove of the press platen and the inner diameter of the ring.

Abstract: A process and system for preparing vegetable oilseed meal for subsequent solvent extraction of the contained vegetable oil, comprising a screwpress section and extruding/expanding section, a common worm shaft (10, 11) rotating within a perforated barrel wall section (14) and a non-perforate barrel wall section (18) connected by an annular member (16) with water injection nozzles (17) therein. Meal enters at inlet (13); oil is extracted through wall (14); the meal enters section (18) at increased temperature and moisture content; its temperature is then increased further to a level at which the increased moisture content will flash off as the meal leaves the restricted orifice (19) thus increasing the porosity and extractability of the meal.

Abstract: A dual-cycle method of extracting juice from fruit and a juice extraction installation consisting of two angular presses in tandem arrangement in which the fruit mash yields first quality juice and pomace in the first press, and this pomace is immediately broken up and deposited on the horizontal run of the second press, under the addition of water which soaks and swells the pomace, before it passes through the second extraction press. The latter yields juice of second quality and twice-pressed pomace.

Abstract: A funnel stock/sauce separator for separating fat from liquid is provided and consists of a funnel having a conical vessel for storing therein the liquid which is to be separated from the fat at top of the liquid, a cylindrical housing which supports the funnel onto a support surface and a manually operated closure member positioned within the funnel over a spout for controlling outflow of the liquid through the spout.

Abstract: In a steam juice extractor having a water cup for producing a water steam, a juice collecting container arranged on the water cup and having a funnel and a fruit container having a bottom with a sieve openings for discharging a juice from the fruit container, an outlet of the funnel has a cross-section which is dimensioned so that the water steam discharges from the funnel with a speed of substantially between 2 and 20 m per sec.

Abstract: The invention relates to the attachment of a filter mat (10), woven from stainless steel wire, to a press plate (8) of a cocoa press. It is known to insert the bent-over edge part of the mat (10) into a groove (15) in the press plate (8) and fix it by means of a pressed-in cord (19). In order to avoid the mat being broken at the place of bending, it is proposed according to the invention that the opposite walls (16, 17) of the groove against which the peripheral edge of the filter mat (10) and the cord (19) are pressed should form an angle between 25.degree. and 55.degree. with the surface of the press plate.

Abstract: A peanut butter press feeding mechanism has a peanut supply hopper which is controlled by a release gate to supply a volumetric feeder. The volumetric feeder ensures that each of four intermediate holding hoppers at a peanut butter press are filled to capacity. A second release gate controls the outlet of the volumetric feeder, which releases the peanuts into a totalizing scale which weighs peanuts supplied to all four of the intermediate holding hoppers. The totalizing scale supplies peanuts to a conveying arrangement having diverting gates which supply the appropriate intermediate holding hopper with a full supply of peanuts. During operation of the peanut butter press, a predetermined amount of oil is removed from the peanuts based upon the total weight of the peanuts used. This is necessary since merely knowing the volume of the peanuts used is insufficient due to the fluctuations in density of each batch of peanuts.

Abstract: A compression extractor is disclosed. The compression extractor comprises a tank having a flexible membrane mounted therein. The membrane serves to divide the tank into a mash chamber and a pressure chamber. The mash chamber is adapted to receive a fruit mash or other liquid containing material from which liquid is to be extracted. When a pressure medium is introduced into the pressure chamber, the membrane presses on the mash in the mash chamber to extract the liquid therefrom. A liquid collection system is provided to collect the extracted liquid. To improve collection of the extracted liquid, the side of membrane facing the mash chamber is covered at least in part, with drainage canals or the like to direct liquid located near the membrane to the liquid collection system.

Abstract: A separator for reclaiming valuable nutrients not digested by livestock has an inclined bed with closely spaced slots therein and delivery means for a mixture of liquid and solid animal waste material to the bed's upper part for gravity flow along the inclined surface of the bed. The slots are spaced for removal of liquid from the mixture while at the same time preventing the passage of solids. A traveling spray head is positioned over the bed's inclined surface and periodically advanced therealong to clean the screen and remove any solid particles from the slots. A flexible sheet overlies the bed and has means suspending the upper end of the sheet in predetermined spaced relation to the bed to form a delivery entrance for the mixture downwardly between the sheet and bed. The separated liquid is carried into a treatment pond, and the solid material taken off the screen's lower discharge end is advanced into a screw feed conveyor for removal of additional moisture.

Abstract: The invention consists in a device for crushing or mincing garlic or other things. The device has an open topped receptacle formed with sides and a perforated bottom. A plunger fits within but is removable from the receptacle to allow garlic to be placed within it. A forcing means is provided to enable the plunger to be forced towards the bottom of the receptacle thereby crushing the garlic. Rotating means enables the plunger to be rotated to assist in breaking up the garlic. The preferred embodiment has two pivotally attached elongated members, one supporting the receptacle and the other a forcing member to which the plunger is rotatably attached. The elongated members also provide handles.

Abstract: An apparatus for extraction of uncontaminated aloe vera gel from the leaves of aloe vera plants. The harvested leaves of the aloe vera plants are positioned between a pair of endless moving belts for passing by a plurality of crushing rollers arranged in a desired pattern. The rollers first crush the core of the leaf to enable the gel to flow internally while a second set of rollers extrudes the gel from the leaf. The crushed leaf and extruded gel is then deposited on a drain grate to enable gravity flow separation of the gel from the crushed leaves. The drainage grate is sloped in order that the leaves will slowly move across the drain grate to enable separation of the gel while removing the leaf from the gel collection area prior to the flowing of the contaminate aloin from the leaf.

Abstract: The hand-operated press for treating vegetables or fruit comprises two levers, which are connected by an articulated joint and in at least part of their length constitute handles. The material to be treated is forced through at least two holding chambers, one or more of which may be provided on one or each lever. Each holding chamber provided on one lever has associated with it a ram provided on the other lever. As the handles are forced toward each other, each ram enters the associated holding chamber and forces the material to be treated through openings in the bottom defining the holding chamber. The holding chambers are provided with different openings, which may be square or elongated so that the hand-operated press may be used to disintegrate the fruit or vegetables into disc-shaped or prismatic pieces as the fruit or vegetable is forced through the openings.

Abstract: A citrus fruit squeezer including a reservoir having a cone-shaped support member on which a fruit to be squeezed is placed. A cover is pivotably supported by a peripheral portion of the reservoir. A pressing member is rotatably supported by the cover and is fitted on and over the fruit on the support member when the covers is pulled over and down against the reservoir. The pressing member is pressed against the fruit and rotated to squeeze juice from the fruit.

Abstract: A filtration/separation apparatus in which a filter cloth is arranged to travel and face a rotor so that a partitioned space chamber defined by the cloth and rotor is gradually narrowed in accordance with the rotation of the rotor. The space chamber defined is partitioned by vanes provided on the rotor, so that the positional relations in contact between the tip ends of the vanes and the filter cloth are maintained desirable with a high accuracy.

Abstract: Apparatus for the extraction of fruit and vegetable pressings and plant raw materials in a closed system. The extraction is effected by simultaneous mechanical and hydrodynamic effects on the materials, the fruit or plant mass being subjected to several extractions in two cyclically alternating modes of fountain-type and turbulent agitation with different intensities with bladed agitator tip speeds in an over-all range of 3 to 25 m/sec. The apparatus has a closed heat-insulated vessel with internal draining wall, a conical bottom, a cover having a ventilation opening, and an opening for the raw material, with a driving unit mounted on the cover with two driving speeds. The driving unit is a shaft on the lower end of which there is mounted an impeller, the shaft resting on a special bearing supported on a grid of blades rectifying the material flow, an elongated diffuser surrounding the impeller, the impeller together with a suction unit leading to the diffuser being fixed to the bottom of the vessel.

Abstract: The garlic squeezer comprises a first rectilinear arm, pivoted at one end to one end of a second rectilinear or straight arm: on the first arm there is formed, at an intermediate position, an open seat, provided with a perforated bottom, and on the second arm there is formed, at a position corresponding to the open seat, a smooth surface ridge, capable of being inserted into the seat and opposite to a ridge provided with tooth members which may be inserted, from the bottom, into the perforations formed in the bottom of the seat, upon rotating the two arms about the pivot axis.

Abstract: An egg separator has a receptacle with a bottom wall which slopes towards the center where there is a tubular hollow upright provided with circumferentially spaced openings leading to a center discharge hole for the egg whites, the yolks being held back at the openings. The separator is especially well suited for separating several eggs at one and the same time.

Abstract: Juice extractor comprising a rotary body having a rotary shaft supported therein in such a manner that the shaft can be rotated and axially moved, and a cover adapted to be screwed to a juice extractor body, the shaft being rotatable with the cover screwed to the juice extractor body, the shaft and cover being combined and rotated together when the latter is loosened, the rotary body being able to be drawn out easily from the juice extractor body.

Abstract: Improvements in a fruit processing juice extractor in which fruit is fed by a feed wheel to conveyors having elastomer cups for holding the fruits and moving them against a stationary cutting knife to provide severed sections which are transported to rotary reamers that remove the juice and juice-bearing material from the peel sections which are subsequently ejected by ejector wheels into a peel chute for delivery to a bar grid in the chute for diverting the peel sections directly to an outlet, or to a separator for separating the juice, pulp and rag from the peel.

Abstract: Apparatus for concentrating fruits which preserves the original coloration and freshness of flavor and retains the structural integrity of the fruit for subsequent preserving or canning operations. The apparatus consists of a first high vacuum chamber means heating the chamber to a temperature to maintain the fruit at a temperature below the boiling temperature of water at a maintained vacuum and a second vacuum chamber in the form of a rotating cylinder such that the juices in the fruit cells migrate to the surface of the fruit and coat the walls of the cylinder, and means heating the second chamber to a temperature above the boiling point of water at the maintained vacuum to boil off this coating.

Abstract: A fruit squeezer, comprising a container and a lid, rotatably mountable thereon, provided with an impacting block extending from the underside of the lid to the bottom of the container, and terminating in a pin-like projection, rotatably insertable in a centered aperture in the container bottom; vertically directed ribs extends outwardly from the interior wall of the container, coacting with the rotatable impacting block to press juice from a fruit placed there between; a cluster of openings surrounds the bottom aperture for the outflow of juice, then channeled through a spout mounted beneath and covering the outflow openings in the container bottom.

Abstract: A roll to be rotatably inserted within a juicer housing is formed in a brimmed spiral at an upper part thereof and in a coiled spiral at a lower part thereof, whereby raw juice is instantly made by a simplified mechanism and an easy operation.

Abstract: A system for controlling the flow of fruit and fruit juice through a juice extraction facility are disclosed. The juice extraction facility includes a bulk storage location for the fruit, a sizer for separating the fruit into size categories, a feeder for feeding the fruit from the storage location to the sizer, a plurality of juice extractors arranged into groups corresponding to the fruit size categories, means for recycling excess fruit from each group of extractors to the fruit storage location, and a juice storage tank. The measured variables include the level in the juice storage tank and the amount of fruit being recycled from each group of extractors to the fruit storage location. The control objectives include equalizing the fruit flow to each group of extractors, minimizing the amount of recycled fruit from each group of extractors, and maintaining the proper level in juice storage tank.

Abstract: A cooking utensil for separating liquid gravy from fats and oil is provided, which utensil has a receptacle in which is placed the mixture of gravy with fats and oil. The bottom of the receptacle has an elongated tubular opening in which a valve is positioned. The liquid gravy is removed from the mixture by gravity through the tubular opening, and the rate of outflow is controlled by a valve. The valve has a flexible closure element which when positioned within the cylindrical portion of the opening closes off the flow of liquid, and when positioned in the truncated conically-shaped outlet of the tubular opening controls the rate of outflow.

Abstract: Apparatus for separating the juice and pulp of fruit or vegetable material comprises a base incorporating a drive mechanism, a case attached to the base and having a conical bore with the axis thereof extending horizontally between end walls of the case, a rotary member rotatably mounted in the case and driven by the drive member, the rotary member comprising a cutting blade portion and a pressing portion. The case is provided on its upper side near the wide end of the bore with a material inlet opening, on its lower side with a liquid outlet opening having a filter therein, and on a lateral side near the narrow end of the bore with a residual solids outlet opening. The cutting blade portion is spiral and has portion disposed near and confronting the material inlet opening. The pressing portion is conical (but oppositely disposed to the conical bore) and has portions disposed near and confronting both the liquid outlet opening and the residual solids discharge opening.

Abstract: An arrangement for continuously separating fruits has a housing, a sieve element rotating in the housing and a hammer element rotating inside the sieve element, wherein the sieve element rotates with the speed which is lower than the speed of rotation of the hammer element and the relation between the speeds of rotation of the hammer element and the sieve element is within the region of between 2:1 and 4:1. A method of continuously separating fruits include withdrawing the extracted fruit juice from the inventive arrangement and supplying the same into a screw centrifuge so as to clarify the fruit juice in the latter and to produce a white wine. Red pigment of the fruit skin can be introduced into the fruit juice so as to produce a red fruit wine.

Abstract: A garlic press with a cylindrical outer shell having a large open top end and a slightly smaller open bottom end. The botton end supports a foraminous plate onto which is placed the herb, such as garlic, which is to be crushed for juice. An inner cylindrical ram is integrally connected to a cap portion, which cap portion threads onto the outside of the larger open end of the outer shell. The ram is grooved with radial slots which contact the herb to be crushed and cooperate with holes in the foraminous plate to extract juice from the herb.

Abstract: A method for controlling the flow of fruit and fruit juice through a juice extraction facility are disclosed. The juice extraction facility includes a bulk storage location for the fruit, a sizer for separating the fruit into size categories, a feeder for feeding the fruit from the storage location to the sizer, a plurality of juice extractors arranged into groups corresponding to the fruit size categories, means for recycling excess fruit from each group of extractors to the fruit storage location, and a juice storage tank. The measured variables include the level in the juice storage tank and the amount of fruit being recycled from each group of extractors to the fruit storage location. The control objectives include equalizing the fruit flow to each group of extractors, minimizing the amount of recycled fruit from each group of extractors, and maintaining the proper level in juice storage tank.

Abstract: A system for processing citrus fruit includes a juice extractor and finisher from which wet peel and pulp and finished juice are obtained. The stream of wet peel pulp is separated into press liquor and press cake components. The press cake is introduced into a dryer where it is contacted by superheated steam so that the press cake is elevated to a high temperature without oxidation, and moisture is driven from the press cake to provide surplus steam and dried pulp from the dryer. The press liquor is conducted to an evaporator where moisture is removed providing a molasses concentrate. The finished juice is conducted to another evaporator where moisture is removed providing a juice concentrate. The surplus steam is directed from the dryer to both of the evaporators to provide the heat for evaporation. The remainder of the steam from the dryer is directed to a heat exchanger where it is superheated without dilution with noncondensible gases for a subsequent passage through the dryer.

Abstract: A citrus fruit juice extractor capable of processing at least 900 fruit per minute includes a set of lower extractor cups rigidly mounted in a linear arrangement to the extractor frame and a set of movable upper extractor cups adapted to interdigitate with the lower cups to extract juice from fruit received in the lower cups. The upper cups are mounted upon separate drive rods that are respectively clamped to cam follower arms, and the follower arms are sequentially driven by cams affixed in a balanced arrangement upon a camshaft to drive the upper extractor cups in a preselected sequence. The juice extractor further includes perforated strainer tubes extending downwardly of the lower extractor cups and hollow orifice tubes slidably received within the strainer tubes. The orifice tubes are sequentially driven by hydraulic slave cylinders that, in turn, are respectively controlled by master cylinders.

Abstract: Parallel horizontal toothed rolls form bights therebetween for reception of non-spherical citrus fruit such as lemons. A body of liquid submerges the toothed rolls so that puncturing of the peel of the fruit takes place below the liquid level. Groups of the toothed rolls are turned in the same direction but at progressively slower speeds. Adjacent toothed rolls are reciprocated axially in opposite directions to change the orientation of the fruit with respect to the toothed rolls. The rolls may be pushed and pulled from one side of the machine through a cam operated device or they may be pushed from both ends by mechanism on opposite sides of the machine.

Abstract: A method is provided for splitting and extracting green plants, such as lucern, for fodder and preserving of the pulp. The method provides for separatelygathering the juice and the pump with various percentages and at a desired rate for more judicious utilization of those components and in particular, a better valorization of proteins; and forpreserving the pump in commercial fractions by a method of batch-compaction and of anaerobic storage, eliminating all dehydrations and thus exhibiting an appreciable savings of energy.The method is characterized in that it includes a primary phase of crushing and breaking of stems without mixing of the cellulose and a secondary phase in which one realizes a definitive splitting to the desired degree. A device for using the method is also disclosed. The method and device have application in the agro-alimentary industries.

Abstract: A non-destructing eggshell egg contents remover incorporates an egg receiving assembly incorporating an egg cup receptacle having a soft resilient hollow concave recess for placement of an egg therein. Protruding through the bottom portion of the egg receiving assembly is a pair of tubes, an egg contents discharge tube for receiving the extracted contents of the egg and an air inlet tube for forcing compressed air into the egg causing its contents to be removed through the discharge tube. The egg receiving assembly may be placed on a base adapted for holding in the user's hand and incorporating a rubber bulb or bellows positioned thereon for activation by the user's hand while holding the base. Other embodiments of the present invention provide for placing the egg receiving assembly in an open shelf-type housing with the air inlet tube either adjacent the egg contents discharge tube or positioned above the egg and insertable therein.

Abstract: A device for use in separating solids and liquids in a mixture whicn includes an annular centrifugal drum having an annular peripheral perforated surface through which juice is adapted to be extracted from a mixture of solids and liquids within the drum by centrifugal force and a deflector means to deflect the juice extracted to a vessel and wherein a second collector means is provided with a portion extending into the drum to collect solid particles after the liquids have been separated from it and to conduct it exteriorly of the drum for collection and wherein a drive motor is provided and suitable belts for rotating the drum.

Abstract: A perforated drainage plate for use as a lining in a cheese mould has parallel strips punched out of the plane of the plate to one side thereof to form two narrow slots on each side of each strip with the ends of the strips merging smoothly into the undeformed part of the plate. The plate is arranged with the strips abutting against the wall of the mould so that a narrow passageway is formed between the undeformed portion of the plate and the wall of the mould for draining away when forced through the slots. The strips are aligned in the direction in which a cheese block slides out of the mould after removal therefrom. The angle of inclination of the ends of the strips relative to the adjacent portion of the plate does not exceed 30 degrees, the width of the slots does not exceed 0.6 mm, and the radius of curvature of the recessed surfaces of each strip is not less than 1 mm.