Patent ID: 7228796

Claim:
A subcombination adapted for use in fruit juice extraction devices comprising, along an axis, a set of opposed intermeshable fixed and mobile peelers, the fixed peeler comprising a plurality of radial blades extending toward the mobile peeler, partially defining a space for a fruit, a perforating filtering tube, comprising a plurality of transverse slits for passage of juice of the fruit, disposed in the fixed peeler so a sharpened extremity of the tube extends a distance into the space for perforating the fruit, the mobile peeler comprising a plurality of radial blades extending toward the fixed peeler, partially defining the space for the fruit, and a piston disposed to move within the perforating filtering tube in order to clean the perforating filtering tube, wherein the opposed intermeshable fixed and mobile peelers further comprise a plurality of blades longer than the respective plurality of radial blades to serve as support for the fruit.