Improvements in Lemon Squeezers.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 4th May, 1899-Accepted, 10th June, 1899
UUMI LEIE DROO
[Communicated from abroad by MANNING, BOWMAN & COMPANY, a Corporation
organized under the Laws of the State of Connecticut, United States of
America, and having its Office at Meriden, in the said State of Connecticut,
U.S.A.]
Improvements in Lemon Squeezers.
I, Pillip ARTHUR NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 6, Bream's Buildings,
Chancery Lane, in the County of London, Patent Agent, 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:-
The invention relates to a lemon squeezer in which an inverted cup is arranged
to be forcibly moved toward, and away from, a serrated cone located within a cup,
the latter having a perforated bottom through which the juice is directed into a
vessel beneath it.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a view of the squeezer in side elevation, in position to receive the lemon
to be operated upon.
Fig. 2 is a view of the same, showing the cone, cone-cup, and ring, in vertical
section; and
Fig. 3 is an enlarged top plan view of the cone, cone-cup, and its support.
The supporting frame consists, conveniently, of a casting A, having a stationary
jaw, a, projecting from its back portion, and an arm, a¹, to receive a set screw, B,
having a threaded engagement with the arm a¹, the said set-screw forming the
movable jaw to clamp the frame A to a suitable support.
The casting or frame A is further provided with a vertical barrel ², through
which a plunger C is arranged to reciprocate, the said plunger C being operated by
a bell-crank lever D, the latter having a slot and pin engagement with the upper
portion of the casting or frame A.
The lower end of the plunger C has swivelled thereon an inverted compression
cup E, provided with a handle e for rocking the cup laterally, when the latter
is engaged with the lemon, in order to thoroughly mash the pulp of the lemon.
and remove the juice completely from it, and to further force a little of the oil of
the lemon peel into the juice, as is sometimes desired.
To the casting or frame A, below the barrel a², a ring bracket F is secured,
the interior of said ring being provided with one or more lugs f,-in the
present instance three,-adapted to be received in corresponding recesses or
indentations in the bottom of a cup G, which is arranged to scat within the
ring F. The cup G has a contracted bottom g¹, for directing the juice into a
glass or other vessel H, which may be supported beneath it, conveniently held
in position, by a ring bracket h, fixed in vertical adjustment to a rod h¹, depending
from the bottom of the casting or frame A.
Within the cup G, there is located a serrated cone I. the base of which is
provided with a series of radial fingers i, which rest on a ledge at the bottom of

page_text: the cup G, and, at intervals, straddle lugs or projections uprising from the ledge
at the bottom of the cup G.
In practice, the bottom of the cup may be forced or swaged out of its natural
position to form the indentation for the reception of the lug f, and this sanie
indentation on the exterior of the bottom of the cup will serve to form the raised
lug on the interior of the bottom of the cup, for interlocking with the radial
fingers at the base of the cone, to prevent the latter from a rotary motion within
the cup. The cup itself is prevented from a rotary motion by the engagement
of its indentations with the lugs f in the supporting ring. F.
In operation, the lemon having been cut in half, one half placed, as usual,
on the serrated cone I, the lever D) is rocked, thereby forcing the compression
cup E down onto the lemon, pressing it tightly against the cone I, and, while
so held, the compression cup E may be rocked back and forth by means of the
handle e, to thoroughly force the juice out. The juice itself flows down between
the fingers at the base of the cone, and through the bottom of the cup G, into
the glass or other vessel H.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to
me from abroad, declare that what I claim is:--
The lemon squeezer, having the lever, plunger, rocking compression cup
serrated cone, the cone-cup, and its support, the several parts being arranged to
operate substantially as described.
Dated this 4th dare of Vow. 1900