Patent ID: 7000534

Claim:
A fruit juice extraction apparatus comprising: two fixed peeler cups and two moveable peeler cups attached to a chassis in mating pairs of fixed and moveable peeler cups, said cups being concave hemispheres, each pair being located at opposing ends of said chassis, where said moveable peeler cups are each attached to opposing ends of a single linear drive actuator for driving both movable peeler cups in a back and forth cycle, said moveable peeler cup at each of the ends of said linear actuator being driven in a manner such that when one or the other of said moveable peeler cups is opening to allow an article of fruit to fall within a concave chamber formed in conjunction with its mating fixed peeler cup, said moveable peeler cup at the opposing end of said linear actuator is closing upon an other article of fruit inside a respective concave chamber formed by the intermeshing of said moveable and fixed peeler cups, and shearing a skin of said other article of fruit as it initiates a peeling process and continues to complete a juicing cycle by pumping a core of said other article of fruit through one of two filtering means mounted respectively in each of said mating fixed peeler cups, each said filtering means having a cutting point at its forward opening and radially cut slits to permit said fruit's core to enter completely into said filtering means which allows for the extracted juice to flow through and be collected in juice collection means connected to said fixed peeler cup, followed by the motion of one of two plungers, associated respectively with each of the two fixed peeler cups, which travels through said respective filtering means and pushes directly on said other article of fruit's core until said core is expelled completely from the forward end of said respective filtering means and, whereby, the each dried core falls into and through the respective concave chamber formed by said respective fixed and moveable peeler cups, and is directed to further fall through a respective fruit core receiving means, whereby when one of said moveable peeler cups is in the full open position, said apparatus is positioned to commence another fruit juice extraction cycle.