Improved Device for Extracting Juice from Lemons, Oranges, and similar Fruits.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 6th July, 1889-Accepted, 31st Aug., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Device for Extracting Juice from Lemons, Oranges, and
similar Fruits.
EDGAR MORRIS BRANDON 15 Essex Street, Strand, W.C. solicitor, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists in the construction of a simple and cheap device for extracting
the juice from lemons, oranges and similar fruits, and is carried out in the following
manner.
I cast in glass or other suitable material a plate of such a size as will fit on the top
of an ordinary tumbler or jug. In the centre of this plate and on the top, I cast a
dome or cone shaped piece, which is hollow, and fluted on the outside. At the base
of the dome or cone, 1 perforate the said plate with a series of holes, which act as a
strainer and allow the juice of the lemon only to run into the tumbler or receptacle
which is beneath.
I cast with the device a rim or rims encircling the said holes and forming a gutter
for the reception of the juice and to prevent the same from running over the edge of
the plate. I also provide a rim or rims on the underside of the said plate so as to
form a complete cover for the tumbler or receptacle, over which the device is
operated.
The working is as follows,
One half of a lemon or orange is pressed on the top of the dome with the cut
surface of the same downwards. By pressing and turning the lemon on the fluted
dome the juice is expressed from same and running down the flutes on the dome
passes into the gutter, and then through the said holes into the tumbler or receptacle.
I preferably cast the device in one piece, and I may if desired perforate the dome
or cone instead of the plate as hereinbefore described.
E. EATON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Device for Extracting Juice from Lemons, Oranges, and
similar Fruits.
EDGAR MORRIS BRANDON 15 Essex Street, Strand London County of Middlesex
Gentleman 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 :-
My invention consists in the construction of a simple and cheap device for extracting
the juice from lemons, oranges and similar fruits and is carried out in the following
manner.
At
I cast in glass or other suitable material a plate of such a size as will fit on the top
of an ordinary tumbler or jug. In the centre of this plate and on the top I cast a
dome or the like or cone shaped piece which is hollow and fluted on the outside.
the base of the dome or cone 1 perforate the said plate with a series of holes or the
like which act as a strainer and allow the juice only of the lemon to run into the
tumbler or receptacle which is beneath. I cast with the device a rim or rims
encircling the said holes and forming a gutter for the reception of the juice and
to prevent the same from running over the edge of the plate. I also provide a
rim or rims on the underside of the said plate so as to form a complete cover for
the tumbler or receptacle over which the device is operated.

page_text: The working is as follows
One half of a lemon or orange is. pressed on the top of the dome with the cut
surface of the same downward. By pressing and turning the lemon on the fluted
dome which is suspended over the glass or jug the juice is expressed from samo and
down the flutes on the dome passes- into the gutter and, then through the said holes
into the tumbler or receptacle.
I preferably cast the device in one pièce and I may if' desired perforate the dome
or cone instead of the plate as hereinbefore described.
In the accompanying drawing
Fig. 1 shows view of a lemon squeezer.
Fig. 2 vertical section cut through X, Y.
A dome. B flutes. C perforated plate forming strainer. D rim or gutter. E rim
on underside.
In the above drawings I have shown the flutes running from the top to the bottom
of the dome in a straight line, but if desired I may make the flutes to run in a zig zag
or inclined direction.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion what I claim and desire to secure by letters patent is
1st. A device for expressing the juice from lemons and the like consisting of a
dome A or the like containing flutes or their equivalent B. perforated plate C. rim D.
and.rim E.. substantially as described.
Dated this 6th day of July 1889.
EDMUND EATON & CO.,
Agents for Applicant.