A New or Improved Lemon or other Fruit Squeezer or Julce Extractor.
Year: 1888

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Lemon or other Fruit Squeezer or Julce
Extractor.
I JAMES DUNLOP MITCHELL of 136 Ingram Street Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Glass
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a new or improved lemon or other fruit squeezer or
juice extractor and it has for its object to construct a simple cheap and efficient
article of this class.
My new. or improved squeezer or juice extractor consists of..a hollow cup or
vessel made preferably of a parabolic-conoidal shape although it may be of a hemi-
spherical or other suitable form. The cup is made of glass, porcelain, enamelled
iron or other suitable material, and has or may, have a number of holes or slots in
it, it is made preferably smooth on its interior surface but it has a corrugated
ridged, serrated or otherwise roughened or jagged exterior surface it has or may
have also a flange or rim at its mouth said. flange being perforated or made with a
number of holes or slots in it.
When using my new or improved squeezer or juice extractor, it is placed. mouth
downwards in the tumbler or other juice receptacle, the lemon or other fruit is then cut
and one half or portion of the fruit is rubbed and pressed at the same time over the jagged
or uneven exterior surface of the cup, the consequence of which is that the juice is
caused to exude and runs down into the tumbler or other receptacle. either through
the holes or slots in the cup itself or through the openings in the flange or through,
both and is thus collected. The remaining portion of the fruit. has .its..juice
extracted in the same manner.
With my new or improved extractor every particle of juice can be..drawn from,
the fruit.
Dated this Twentieth day of November 1888. ·
H. D...FITZPATRICK,..
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow,..
Agent..

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Lemon or other Fruit Squeezer or Juice
Extractor.
I JAMES DUNLOP MITCHELL formerly of 136 Ingram Street now of 83 Hope
Street Glasgow Lanarkshire Glass Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to a new or improved lemon or other fruit squeezer or juice
extractor, and it has for its object to construct a simple and efficient article of this
class.
My new or improved squeezer or juice extractor consists of a hollow cup or vessel,
made preferably of a parabolic conoidal shape, although it may be of a semi-
ellipsoidal, hemispherical or other suitable form. The cup is made of glass, por-
celain, enamelled iron or other suitable material, and has or may have a number of
holes or slots in it; it is made preferably smooth on its interior surface but it has
a corrugated, ridged, serrated or otherwise roughened or jagged exterior surface; it
has or may have also a flange or rim at its mouth, said flange being perforated or
made with a number of holes or slots in it.
And in order that my said invention may be properly understood, I have hereunto
appended an explanatory sheet of drawings, whereon figs. 1. 2. 3. 4. and, 5, repre-
sent, in elevation, different forms of my improved squeezer or juice extractor ;
figs. 6. and, 7. show respectively a plan view and a vertical section of the squeezer
or juice extractor fig. 1; whilst figs. 8. and, 9. show in elevation and vertical section,
respectively, a modification of my squeezer or juice extractor.
Referring to the drawings.
a. is the cup which may be made with vertical ribs or corrugations on its
exterior surface, as shown at fig. 1, or the ribs may be screwed or twisted as shown
at fig. 2. Instead of being corrugated, however, the cup may have rounded
projections as at fig. 3, or be serrated or jagged, as at fig. 4, or it may be otherwise
roughened on its exterior surface. Between each of the ribs or corrugations, when
these are used, a hole or slot, or a series of holes or slots, or their equivalent, may be
made to allow the juice to pass through to the receptacle for receiving it, as shown
at, f. fig. 5. The cup, a, is by preference made with a rim or flange, c, at its mouth,
said flange being perforated or made with a number of slots, holes, or openings, d,
(fig. 6) to allow the juice to pass through to the collecting receptacle. The interior
surface of the cup, a, may be made smooth and it may be gilded or silvered if
desired. Instead of the cup being made hollow it may be solid. A piece of wire
gauze, perforated metal, or equivalent, may be secured at the mouth of the cup, a, as
indicated at, g, fig. 7. to prevent pips entering the juice receptacle.
When using my new or improved squeezer or juice extractor, it is placed, mouth
downwards, on the tumbler or other juice receptacle, the lemon or other fruit is then

page_text: cut, and one half or portion of the fruit is rubbed and pressed at the same time over
the jagged or uneven exterior surface of the cup, the consequence of which is that
the juice is caused to exude and runs down into the tumbler or other receptacle,
either through the holes or slots in the cup itself or through the openings in the
flange, or through both, and is thus collected. The remaining portion of the fruit
has its juice extracted in the same manner.
The extractor or squeezer, as shown at figs. 8. and, 9, is made in one piece with, or
may be fitted on to, a saucer or dish, e, which receives the juice from the lemon or
other fruit and from which the juice can be easily emptied.
The squeezer or juice extractor instead of having its exterior surface roughened,
in the manner shown at figs. 1 to 5. of the drawings, may have it otherwise corru-
gated, jagged or roughened.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is,
A lemon or other fruit squeezer or juice extractor made substantially as herein-
before described and as shown, under several modifications, on the drawings
annexed.
Dated this 15th day of April 1889. .
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow,
Agent.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow,
Agent.