Patent Application
20220022682
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The disclosure relates to juicing devices and more particularly pertains to a new juicing device for simultaneously slicing a lemon and squeezing juice from the lemon.
The prior art relates to juicing devices including a lemon juicer which includes a blade on one side of a lever and a plunger on an opposite side of the lever from the blade. The prior art discloses a lemon juicer which includes a blade and a plunger and which is attachable to a support surface for stability. The prior art further discloses a lemon juicer which includes a first lever, a second lever and a third lever for slicing and squeezing a lemon. The prior art also discloses a lemon juicer which includes a first lever hingedly coupled to a second lever and a third lever extending laterally away from the second lever. The prior art discloses a lemon juicer that includes a plurality of blades and which is structured in a manner that requires reduced effort from a user to squeeze a lemon.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a first lever that has a cup integrated therein to receive a lemon. A blade is fixed in the cup to slice the lemon when the lemon is urged downwardly in the cup. A second lever is pivotally coupled to the first lever and a plunger is integrated therein. The second lever is positionable in a closed position having the second lever lying on the first lever. Thus, the plunger compresses the lemon into the cup. In this way the lemon is sliced and the juice is squeezed from the lemon. The second lever is positionable in an open position having the second lever extending away from the first lever.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The outer wall 28 has a lower side 34 and the lower side 34 is spaced downwardly from the bottom side 26 of the outer surface 22 of the first lever 12. The cup 14 is positioned closer to the second end 20 than the first end 18 of the first lever 12, and the second end 20 is split into a yoke 35. The outer wall 28 has a plurality of holes 36 each extending therethrough to facilitate juice from the lemon 16, or other fruit, to pass therethrough. Each of the holes 36 is located on the lower side 34 of the outer wall 28 and each of the holes 36 is aligned with an apex 38 of the outer wall 28 with respect to the upper edge 30.
A blade 40 is fixed in the cup 14 and the blade 40 slices the lemon 16 when the lemon 16 is urged downwardly in the cup 14. In this way juice can be squeezed from the lemon 16 without requiring the lemon 16 to be cut or sliced beforehand. The blade 40 is coupled to an interior surface 42 of the outer wall 28 of the cup 14 and the blade 40 is coextensive with a center line of the cup 14. The blade 40 has a top edge 43 and the top edge 43 is spaced downwardly from the upper edge 30 of the outer wall 28 of the cup 14. Moreover, the top edge 43 is serrated and the top edge 43 is sharpened for enhancing slicing the lemon 16. The blade 40 is oriented collinear with a line extending between the first end 18 and the second end 20 of the first lever 12.
A second lever 44 is pivotally coupled to the first lever 12 and the second lever 44 has a plunger 46 integrated therein. The second lever 44 is positionable in a closed position having the second lever 44 lying on the first lever 12. In this way the plunger 46 compresses the lemon 16 into the cup 14 and onto the blade 40. The second lever 44 is positionable in an open position having the second lever 44 extending away from the first lever 12. The second lever 44 has a primary end 48, a secondary end 50 and a topmost surface 52 extending therebetween, and the secondary end 50 is pivotally coupled to the second end 20 of the first lever 12. The primary end 48 is aligned with the first end 18 of the first lever 12 when the second lever 44 is positioned in the closed position. Conversely, the second lever 44 extends away from the first lever 12 along a line that is coextensive with the line extending through the first end 18 and the second end 20 of the first lever 12 when the second lever 44 is in the open position.
The plunger 46 is positioned on the topmost surface 52 of the second lever 44 and the plunger 46 has an exterior wall 54 that is coupled to and extends upwardly from the topmost surface 52. The exterior wall 54 is concavely arcuate with respect to the topmost surface 52 such that the plunger 46 has a dome shape. The exterior wall 54 has an outermost surface 56 and the outermost surface 56 a plurality of depressions 58 each extending inwardly therein to enhance gripping the lemon 16. The plurality of depressions 58 extends from substantially between an apex 60 of the plunger 46 and the topmost surface 52. Moreover, the depressions 58 are spaced apart from each other and are distributed around a full circumference of the plunger 46.
The exterior wall 54 has a cut 62 extending therethrough and the cut 62 extends along a line extending between the primary end 48 and the secondary end 50 of the second lever 44. The blade 40 passes through the cut 62 when the second lever 44 is positioned in the closed position. The exterior wall 54 has an opening 64 extending therethrough, the opening 64 is aligned with the cut 62 and the opening 64 is aligned with the apex 60 of the plunger 46. Additionally, the secondary end 50 is positioned in the yoke 35 defined on the second end 20 of the first lever 12. A pin 66 extends through the yoke 35 defined on the first end 18 of the first lever 12 and the pine 66 engages the secondary end 50 of the second lever 44 such that the second lever 44 is pivotally retained on the first lever 12.
In use, the lemon 16, or other similarly sized fruit, is positioned in the cup 14 and the second lever 44 is urged into the closed position. In this way the plunger 46 compresses the lemon 16 onto the blade 40 to slice the lemon 16. Additionally, the lemon 16 is compressed into the cup 14 to squeeze the juice from the lemon 16 and the juice pours outwardly through the holes 36 in the outer wall 28 of the cup 14. Thus, the juice can be squeezed from the lemon 16 without requiring that the lemon 16 be cut or sliced prior to squeezing the juice from the lemon 16.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
