Patent ID: 8776676

Claim:
An apparatus for a juicer, comprising: a housing including a fruit entry; a cutting chamber within the housing and coupled to the fruit entry for receiving a fruit or vegetable; a squeezing chamber within the housing and adjacent to the cutting chamber; wherein the cutting chamber includes a cutter and wherein the cutting chamber rotates with respect to a reference vertical axis; wherein the cutter cuts the fruit or vegetable within the cutting chamber into sliced portions; wherein the cutting chamber comprises bottom portions that separate from each other in order to permit the sliced portions to fall from the cutting chamber and that move into contact with each other; wherein the squeezing chamber is positioned below the cutting chamber; wherein the squeezing chamber receives the sliced portions that fall from the cutting chamber; wherein the squeezing chamber includes a press for pressing the sliced portions; wherein the squeezing chamber includes a seed guard for preventing a seed from falling into the squeezing chamber as the seed is dropped from the cutting chamber; and a juice collection chamber coupled to the squeezing chamber, wherein juice falls from the squeezing chamber into the juice collection chamber.