Patent ID: 6029568
Filing Date: 2000-02-29
Classification: A47J,Y10S

Abstract:
A juice extractor comprising:a housing;an induction motor supported by said housing and having a rotatable shaft;means for (i) comminuting food products so as to pulverize said food products into juice bearing pulp, (ii) extracting juice from said pulp, and (iii) ejecting said juiceless pulp, said comminuting means disposed in operative engagement with said shaft;servo-control means arranged in electrical and controlling cooperation with said induction motor and responsive to the rate of rotation of said shaft for maintaining said shaft at a substantially constant rate of rotation when said induction motor is in a power-on state and said comminuting means are comminuting said food products;a bowl positioned in substantially surrounding relation to said comminuting means so as to (i) collect said juice and (ii) direct said juice to an exit opening; anda cover releasably clamped to said collection bowl, said cover having a contour that provides a pathway for directing pulp ejected by said comminuting means into a receptacle.