Machine and process for simultaneous extraction of juice and the fruit citrus essential oils

摘要

A machine and process for simultaneously extracting the juice and essential oil of citrus fruit, comprising feeding the citrus fruit into a gap formed between a pair of parallel oppositely rotating cylinders, cutting the citrus fruit into halves by a cutting blade arranged in said gap, feeding and squeezing said halves along a narrowing gap formed between the periphery of each of said cylinders and an adjacent perforated metal sheet, collecting the juice below said perforated metal sheet, cutting the membranes and mesocarp of the citrus fruit from the peels, collecting the essential oil adhering to the peripheries of said cylinders by a pad of absorbent material and separately collecting the cut membranes and mesocarp and the cut peels.