Patent ID: 6722268
Filing Date: 2004-04-20
Classification: A23N

Abstract:
A device for triturating and extracting the juice or pulp from food products, comprising a refiner of known type provided with a rotating shaft, having blades rotating internally of a sieve contained in an external casing; a triturator group is coaxial to the refiner and receives a produce to be processed from an infeeder archimedes screw and introduces the produce into the refiner; characterized in that the triturator group comprises: a fixed cylindrical cage, fixed to a casing which contains the archimedes screw and also fixed to the external casing of the refiner, which cylindrical cage is provided with a plurality of apertures and is arranged coaxially to a common axis of the archimedes screw, the triturator group and the refiner; a cutting group, solid in rotation with the refiner and having a cutting element which acts frontally and perpendicularly to a rotation axis of the refiner and is arranged internally of the cylindrical cage; the cutting element being positioned facing the archimedes screw and being provided with radial blades arranged downstream of the cutting element and internally of the cylindrical cage; a radial distance between the radial blades and an inside of the cylindrical cage being greater than a maximum dimension of any extraneous bodies present in the pulp to be processed.