Patent ID: 7044051

Claim:
An apparatus for extraction of juice and pulp from plant products, comprising: a motor component; a tank; a cylindrical strainer, symmetrical about an axis, located in the tank, and having a perforated side wall; an opening for introduction of the plant products into the strainer, the strainer being rotated around the axis by the motor component so that plant products introduced into the strainer are lacerated and flattened against the perforated side wall; and a blade located inside the strainer and separated by a gap from the perforated side wall of the strainer so that the strainer rotates relative to the blade and the blade exerts a force on the lacerated plant products flattened against the side wall and thicker than the gap thereby crushing the lacerated plant products during the extraction of the juice and pulp whereby yield in the extraction of juice from the lacerated plant products is increased.