Removable Juice Press Chamber With Supported Disposable Filters
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing juice pressing machines struggle to maximize juice extraction in a short time, minimize machine downtime, prevent solids and juice travel, and simplify cleaning, while using durable yet cost-effective filters.
Innovation Solution
A juice pressing machine with a removable pressing chamber and lightweight, disposable filters, supported by chamber walls, and a funnel system for even foodstuff layering, combined with grooved surfaces to direct juice flow, enhances extraction efficiency and ease of use.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If lightweight, disposable filters are used, then cost is reduced and ease of operation is improved, but filter strength and reliability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs disposable filters made from inexpensive materials such as paper or thin fabric that can be discarded after a single use. This eliminates the need for expensive, durable filters while maintaining sufficient performance for one-time juicing operations, directly resolving the contradiction between filter cost and filter strength.
Solution Approach 2:
The pressing chamber walls provide localized structural support at critical areas where filters are most vulnerable to rupture. This concentrated support system allows the use of weak, disposable filters in non-critical areas while maintaining overall system reliability, resolving the contradiction between using cheap filters and ensuring sufficient strength.
2Ease of operation
If the pressing chamber is made removable, then ease of operation for emptying is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The pressing chamber is designed as a separable component that can be easily removed from the main juicing machine body. This segmentation allows the chamber to be detached for easy emptying and cleaning, while the separation itself simplifies the overall structure rather than complicating it, resolving the contradiction between ease of emptying and device complexity.
3Reliability
If chamber walls support the filters, then filter rupture risk is reduced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The pressing chamber walls provide localized structural support at critical areas where filters are most vulnerable to rupture. This concentrated support system allows the use of weak, disposable filters while maintaining overall system reliability, resolving the contradiction between using cheap filters and ensuring sufficient strength.
4Productivity
If grooved surfaces are added to direct juice flow, then productivity is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Grooved surfaces are incorporated into the pressing chamber walls to create channels that direct juice flow toward collection areas. These curved or linear grooves utilize natural flow dynamics to guide liquid efficiently without requiring complex pumping or mechanical systems, resolving the contradiction between improving juice flow efficiency and increasing device complexity.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution allows for high juice yield with reduced filter rupture risk, minimized machine downtime, and simplified cleaning, using lightweight, cost-effective filters and efficient juice collection.
Implementation Method 1
the platen is moved to the extended position within the pressing chamber. As the platen pushes against the one or more filters and foodstuff, the foodstuff and filter(s) move toward the back wall of the pressing chamber and are pressed between the chamber back wall and platen
Implementation Method 2
Foodstuff which preferably has been first macerated may be held in one or more permeable pressing filters
Data Source
AI summary
A juice pressing machine and methods for pressing juice from a foodstuff includes embodiments having a removable pressing chamber and one or more filters which may be assembled and loaded with macerated foodstuff to form thin layers separated by a pressing plate. Once a juicing operation has been completed, the pressing chamber can be removed from the machine for emptying the pressed filters and solids contents therein. The empty pressing chamber may then be rinsed if needed and reattached to the machine for a subsequent pressing operation with newly filled filter(s). The platen may also be easily removed from the machine for cleaning as desired.