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The pomegranate is a globus fruit surmounted by a crown of calyx lobes. The pomegranate may be as small as an orange or as large as a grapefruit. Pomegranates have a thick though fleshy rind often red in color. Inside the fruit are about 840 tiny juice sacks (arils) each containing a small quantity of sweet red juice. Groups of arils within the core of the fruit are encased by a white membrane similar in texture and sourness to a lemon peel. In its natural state, arils are grouped together and connected by this white membrane forming a pattern within the fruit similar to sections within an orange. The sack of the ariel must be pierced or crushed to remove the juice from its core. The juice from 840 arils amount to approximately 6 fluid ounces. Once collected, the juice may be drunk. The juice of the pomegranate is renowned for its health benefits.
The traditional consumer method of producing juice from this fruit has been to peel the fruit from its crown similar to the way an orange is peeled. Then separate each aril by hand from its membrane and collect the arils to be crushed by a mortar and pestle, or similar device, to produce juice.
Prior art includes the mechanical separation of the arils from the fruit by use of pressurized gas. That method lends itself to the commercial production of pomegranate juice.
Up to the present, no acceptable tool is available for the manual extraction of juice directly from the pomegranate fruit. Prior art for manually actuated tools for the preparation of a citrus juice beverage have been related to orange and grapefruit juice extraction which do not apply to the unique physical characteristics of the pomegranate.
The present invention seeks overcome the time consuming and tedious task of hand removing arils from the hull of the pomegranate and then crushing the arils in a bowl to produce pomegranate juice from each fruit.
There is thus provided in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention a manually actuated tool to allow the user to render the juice from the pomegranate without first removing the arils from the rind of the fruit.
Further, in accordance with the embodiment of the present invention, the user cuts the pomegranate in half revealing the several sections of this fruit. An embodiment of the present invention is then manually lowered down into the fruit with cutting tine(s) lined up to enter a section(s) of the fruit. The user lowers the present invention down into the center of the fruit causing the tine(s) to break the lining of the arils releasing their juice. As the tine(s) bite down into the section of arils, the juice of each aril flows through the tine extrusion holes contained within an embodiment of the present invention. The juice rises above the tine but remains within the husk of the fruit. When all juice has been extruded, the user pours the juice from the husk of the pomegranate into a glass to be consumed. The entire process takes only a few seconds with only the present invention to be cleaned.
The present invention will be more fully understood and appreciated from the following brief description taken in conjunction with the drawing in which:
In preparation for use of the present invention, the pomegranate is sliced horizontally in half revealing the fruits sections. The present invention is then grasped on the handle by the user and lower into the fruit with the tines lined up with the fruit sections. The user may twist the tool breaking the arils and allowing the tine to be dug further into the fruit as layers of arils are burst. Using this motion the arils are fully burst in a matter of seconds. The tool is then removed from the hull of the fruit with the juice at the surface of the hull. The juice is then poured into a glass for consumption.