Abstract: Citrus juice machine with a fruit feed chute, fruit cutting and squeezing means and a peel collection tray. The cutting and squeezing means have a fruit reception cup, located below the fruit feed chute; devices to initiate the rotation of the cup between a vertical fruit reception position and an inverted position; a horizontal tilting blade facing the rotating trajectory of the cup to cut the fruit in an upper and lower half; a retaining stop for the upper half of the fruit; a ramp to support the lower half of the fruit during the rotation of the cup from its vertical position to an inverted position; a squeezing ball located below the cup.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a press for fruit and vegetable products including at least one column that includes a feed element and several pressing stages. Each stage of pressing includes an essentially cylindrical outer shell which is internally associated with a pressure-deformable impermeable membrane which lines a respective pressing chamber in each stage. At least one perforated collector tube is positioned along the column inside each pressing chamber and coaxially to each outer shell.

Abstract: An apparatus for extracting the juice from whole fruit having a rind comprising axially aligned, spaced-apart piston and pressing head arranged to move reciprocally toward and away from each other, for loading a fruit therebetween, at least one perforated coring knife slidingly received in the pressing head for advancing into the fruit in preparation of collecting the extracted juice separate from the rind, and including an elastomeric head positioned over the front portion of the piston, defined by a circular concave portion centered over the piston and extending forward about its circumferencial edge an upstanding rim, and a skirt portion extending from the rim rearward along the outside of the piston to a terminal edge, wherein a ram, slidingly carried in the piston is hydraulically driven to advance beyond the piston to avert the center portion of the elastomeric head against the fruit during compression of the fruit between the ram and the pressing head, the improvement comprising at least one groove for

Abstract: Device for the extraction of juices and essential oils from whole fruits, in particular from citrus fruits, wherein it comprises, in combination, a series of cylindrical elements, having a vertical axis, telescopically set with a slight radial clearance, a second series of cylindrical elements, axially aligned with the preceding one and symmetrically disposed at such an interval as to allow for the insertion of a fruit, and means to draw closer said cylindrical elements of the two series in a differentiated way, so as to cause with their edges, a progressive compressive action, substantially distributed all over the fruit surface.

Abstract: A metal roll is provided with a series of sharp circular fins extending around its periphery, in the form of separate circular fins separated by shallow angular grooves. The grooved roll, in cooperation with a ribbed roll, pulls citrus peel through a shaving knife which separates the albedo from the flavedo before the latter passes between a bite formed between the grooved roll and a cooperating roller. A stationary wiper formed of ultra high molecular weight polyethylene engages the peripheral fins to scrape off flavedo and peel oil liquor which adheres to them.