Machine for treating food products of vegetable origin for producing juice and related method for treating

• Main Author: Bertocchi, Alessandro
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 29.07.2025
• Subjects: APPARATUS FOR PREPARING ANIMAL FEEDING- STUFFS; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; MACHINES OR APPARATUS FOR TREATING HARVESTED FRUIT, VEGETABLESOR FLOWER BULBS IN BULK, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PEELING VEGETABLES OR FRUIT IN BULK; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES

A machine for treating a food product of vegetable origin includes a treatment section having an inlet for feeding the food product and an outlet for discharging a treated product. The treatment section has a fixed hollow body, cylindrical, or conical, shaped, and a rotor substantially cylindrical shaped having a diameter ϕr, or substantially conical shaped having a minimum diameter ϕr. The rotor is mounted within the fixed hollow body, has blades, and is operatively connected to a motor group to cause a rotation of the rotor at a rotation speed vr. The rotate such that the product (ϕrvr) of the diameter, or the minimum diameter, ϕr and the rotation speed vr is greater than 700000 r.p.m·mm, whereby the food product is subject to a dynamic compression force, which causes a containment part of the food product to be broken and the liquid fraction, or juice, to exit outside.