Patent ID: 6901849

Claim:
A juice extractor appliance for extracting juice from food articles, comprising: a housing having an inlet feed tube for feeding the food articles into the appliance, and an outlet for outletting the juice extracted therefrom; a cutter disc rotatably mounted within said housing eccentrically with respect to said inlet feed tube for cutting the food articles fed into the housing into a pulp saturated with juice; a separator device within said housing for separating the juice from the pulp, which juice is outletted through said housing outlet; and a drive within said housing for driving said cutter disc; said cutter disc being formed on its surface facing the feed tube with a first group of blades in a circular region centrally of the cutter disc, and with a second group of blades in an outer peripheral region of the cutter disc around said central region; said first group of blades consisting of two blades located on opposite sides of said central circular region and diametrically aligned with each other and with the center of said central circular region; one of said blades extending diametrically across one side of said central circular region and terminating substantially at the center thereof, the other of said blades extending diametrically across the opposite side of said central circular region and terminating short of the center thereof; said second group of blades consisting of a plurality of lines of blades in said outer peripheral region radiating from said center circular region; said central region of the cutter disc on which said first group of blades is formed being separate from and rotatable with respect to said outer peripheral region on which said second group of blades is formed.