Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Toyoaki Murasawa

Katsufumi Nishio

Yuzuru Arao

Masashi Mikami

Fusao Niino

Terukazu Yamauchi

A juice extractor comprising a high-speed rotatable centrifuge basket having a filter in the shape of an inverted frustum of a cone with an open top of larger diameter than the base which is a pot part with cutting teeth on its substantially flat inner bottom face and connected to the base of said filter and a food feeding duct situated substantially perpendicular to and over a portion of the bottom face, wherein the peripheral wall of the pot part is constructed in a manner that the top edge of the wall is situated at a higher position than the bottom face and the lower end of the food feeding duct; the wall of the pot part diverges slightly with its generator having an angle .alpha. of 0.degree.&lt;.alpha.&lt;10.degree. with respect to the axis of the rotation of the food basket.

Juice extractor

For use in a food processor comprising a power unit having a drive shaft, a removable receptacle including a container and a lid having a feed chute communicable to the interior of the receptacle when mounted on the container, and a rotary treating element rotatable within the receptacle together with the drive shaft, a tilt preventing element for preventing a food material inserted into the feed chute from being tilted sideways which comprises an elastic retainer member including a plurality of long elastic tines and a corresponding number of short elastic tines. The long and short tines are curved so that, when the elastic retainer member is removably mounted on the open end of the feed chute opposite to the container, they extend downwardly in the feed chute and diverge outwardly from the surrounding wall defining the feed chute.

Receptacle for motor-driven food processor

A juice extractor capable of adjusting contents of fine sized pulp in the juice comprising

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Nishinomiya, Japan

Toyoaki Murasawa