AU2013342295B2 - Juice extraction module for juicer - Google Patents

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AU2013342295B2
AU2013342295B2 AU2013342295A AU2013342295A AU2013342295B2 AU 2013342295 B2 AU2013342295 B2 AU 2013342295B2 AU 2013342295 A AU2013342295 A AU 2013342295A AU 2013342295 A AU2013342295 A AU 2013342295A AU 2013342295 B2 AU2013342295 B2 AU 2013342295B2
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47JKITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES
    • A47J19/00Household machines for straining foodstuffs; Household implements for mashing or straining foodstuffs
    • A47J19/02Citrus fruit squeezers; Other fruit juice extracting devices
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47JKITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES
    • A47J19/00Household machines for straining foodstuffs; Household implements for mashing or straining foodstuffs
    • A47J19/02Citrus fruit squeezers; Other fruit juice extracting devices
    • A47J19/025Citrus fruit squeezers; Other fruit juice extracting devices including a pressing screw
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47JKITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES
    • A47J19/00Household machines for straining foodstuffs; Household implements for mashing or straining foodstuffs
    • A47J19/06Juice presses for vegetables
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47JKITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES
    • A47J43/00Implements for preparing or holding food, not provided for in other groups of this subclass
    • A47J43/04Machines for domestic use not covered elsewhere, e.g. for grinding, mixing, stirring, kneading, emulsifying, whipping or beating foodstuffs, e.g. power-driven
    • A47J43/07Parts or details, e.g. mixing tools, whipping tools
    • A47J43/0716Parts or details, e.g. mixing tools, whipping tools for machines with tools driven from the lower side
    • A47J43/0722Mixing, whipping or cutting tools

Abstract

Disclosed is a juice extraction module for a juicer, and the juice extraction module comprises: a container (100) having a juice outlet (101); a net (200) positioned inside the container (100); a screw (300) for extracting the juice of a material by being positioned inside the net (200); and a cover (400) which is coupled to an upper end of the container (100), and which has a slot (410) into which materials are inserted. The juice extraction module for a juicer further comprises: a crushing part (500) which is formed on an upper end of the screw (300) by having a shape that narrows toward the upper part, and which has a crushing blade (510); and a crushing process part (600) which is connected to the slot (410), wherein the crushing process part (600) is recessed on the lower side of the cover (400) so as to accommodate the crushing part (500) therein.

Description

JUICE EXTRACTION MODULE FOR JUICER BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 5 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a juice extraction module for a juicer, and more specifically, to a juice extraction module for a juicer having an improved structure, an embodiment of which may be capable of reducing or eliminating the inconvenience that a 10 material should be chopped before the material is input into the juicer. 2. Description of the Related Art In general, a juicer includes a main body, and a juice extraction module mounted onto the main body. The juice extraction module includes a container having a juice 15 extraction space, a lid having an input port through which a material is input into the container, a screw for extracting juice from the material in the container, and a sieve for separating juice and residues from each other. The main body includes a driving motor for rotating the screw, and a shaft of the driving motor is connected to the screw in the juice extraction module. In the 20 conventional juicer, the material should be chopped into such a size that the screw can extract juice. As an example, Korean Patent No. 10-0793852 discloses a juicer configured to cut or sever a material by a screw blade protruding from a central axis of a screw toward a lateral side of an uppermost end. 25 However, in the above technique, when a material has a size larger than the length of the screw blade, the material should be chopped in advance into a size smaller than the length of the screw blade. In addition, Korean Patent No. 10-0966607 discloses a juicer having a grater provided in an entire upper surface over a screw to crush a material just before juice is 30 extracted.
2 However, there are problems in that the crush using the grater is achieved at a speed higher than an ordinary low speed of the juicer and also a user should press the material against the grater by a large force in order to prevent the rotation of the material due to the high speed of the grater. 5 Also, since the conventional juicer cuts the material and then mills the cut pieces of the material while they are pressed against a sieve in a juice extraction process, the sieve may be deformed in a moment by the pressed cut pieces. Such deformation destroys a molding for holding a shape of the sieve or decreases the bond between the molding and the sieve to generate a gap between the molding and the 10 sieve causing a leakage of residues and a decrease in juice extraction efficiency. Any discussion of documents, acts, materials, devices, articles or the like which has been included in the present specification is not to be taken as an admission that any or all of these matters form part of the prior art base or were common general knowledge in the field relevant to the present disclosure as it existed before the priority date of each 15 claim of this application. Throughout this specification the word "comprise", or variations such as 'comprises" or "comprising", will be understood to imply the inclusion of a stated element, integer or step, or group of elements, integers or steps, but not the exclusion of any other element, integer or step, or group of elements, integers or steps. 20 It would be advantageous to provide a juice extraction module for a juicer, in which a structure of crushing a material in advance is provided in a lid and a screw to reduce or eliminate an inconvenient procedure of chopping or cutting a material in advance before inputting the material. 25 SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In a first aspect, there is provided a juice extraction module for a juicer, which includes a container formed with a juice discharge port, a sieve positioned inside of the container, a screw positioned inside of the sieve to rotate about a central axis and extract 30 juice from a material, and a lid coupled to a top end of the container and formed with a 3 input port through which the material is input, the juice extraction module comprising: a crushing portion formed on a top end of the screw to be narrowed upward, the crushing portion having a crushing blade formed thereon; and a crushing processing portion connected to the input port and formed in a bottom 5 of the lid to be concave for accommodating the crushing portion on the top end of the screw, an inner surface of the crushing processing portion including a crushing processing surface and a material guide surface, wherein the crushing processing surface is formed to be increasingly close to the crushing blade of the screw in a rotational direction in which the crushing blade rotates 10 about the central axis during operation such that a first distance between the crushing processing surface and an outer edge of the crushing blade at a first location rotationally adjacent the input port is greater than a second distance between the crushing processing surface and the outer edge of the crushing blade at a second location rotationally adjacent the first location and such that the second distance between the crushing processing surface 15 and the outer edge of the crushing blade at the second location is greater than a third distance between the crushing processing surface and the outer edge of the crushing blade at a third location rotationally adjacent the second location, wherein the material guide surface continues from the input port and is formed to be inclined toward the central axis, whereby the material guide surface guides the material 20 so that a lateral side of the material begins to be crushed by the crushing blade, and wherein the crushing blade crushes the material in advance within the crushing processing portion formed in the bottom of the lid. In a second aspect, there is provided a juice extraction module for a juicer, comprising: 25 a container formed with a residue discharge port and a juice discharge port; a sieve positioned inside of the container; a screw positioned inside of the sieve to extract juice from a material, and a lid coupled to a top end of the container and formed with a input port through which the material is input, 30 wherein a crushing portion is formed on a top end of the screw to be narrowed 4 upward, the crushing portion having a crushing blade formed thereon, wherein the lid is formed with a crushing processing portion, the crushing processing portion being connected to the input port and accommodating the crushing portion, 5 wherein the input port is disposed to be offset outwards from a central axis of the screw and has a width larger than the shortest distance from the central axis of the screw to an inner circumferential surface of a top end of the sieve, wherein the crushing processing portion is formed with a material guide surface for assisting guidance of the material from the input port to the sieve 10 wherein an inner surface of the crushing processing portion comprises a crushing processing surface that is formed to be increasingly close to the crushing blade of the screw in a rotational direction in which the crushing blade rotates about the central axis during operation such that a first distance between the crushing processing surface and an outer edge of the crushing blade at a first location rotationally adjacent the input port is 15 greater than a second distance between the crushing processing surface and the outer edge of the crushing blade at a second location rotationally adjacent the first location and such that the second distance between the crushing processing surface and the outer edge of the crushing blade at the second location is greater than a third distance between the crushing processing surface and the outer edge of the crushing blade at a third location rotationally 20 adjacent the second location, and wherein the material guide surface continues from the input port and is formed to be inclined toward the central axis of the screw, whereby the material guide surface guides the material so that a lateral side of the material begins to be crushed by the crushing blade. In a third aspect, there is provided a juice extraction module for a juicer 25 comprising: a container formed with a juice discharge port; a sieve positioned inside of the container; a screw positioned inside of the sieve to rotate about a central axis and extract juice from a material, the screw including a crushing portion formed at a top end thereof 30 which includes a crushing blade formed thereon; and 5 a lid coupled to a top end of the container and formed with an input port through which the material is input and formed with a crushing processing portion connected to the input port at a bottom of the lid, the crushing processing portion being concave to accommodate the crushing portion at the top end of the screw and having an inner surface 5 that includes a crushing processing surface, wherein the crushing processing surface is formed to be increasingly close to the crushing blade of the screw in a rotational direction in which the crushing blade rotates about the central axis during operation such that a first distance between the crushing processing surface and an outer edge of the crushing blade at a first location rotationally 10 adjacent the input port is greater than a second distance between the crushing processing surface and the outer edge of the crushing blade at a second location rotationally adjacent the first location and such that the second distance between the crushing processing surface and the outer edge of the crushing blade at the second location is greater than a third distance between the crushing processing surface and the outer diameter of the crushing 15 blade at a third location rotationally adjacent the second location. In a fourth aspect, there is provided a juice extraction module for a juicer, which includes a container formed with a juice discharge port, a sieve positioned inside of the container, a screw positioned inside of the sieve to extract juice from a material, and a lid coupled to a top end of the container and formed with a input port through which the 20 material is input, the juice extraction module comprising: a crushing portion formed on a top end of the screw to be narrowed upward, the crushing portion having a crushing blade formed thereon; and a crushing processing portion connected to the input port and formed in a bottom of the lid to be concave for accommodating the crushing portion, 25 wherein an inner surface of the crushing processing portion comprises a crushing processing surface formed to be increasingly close to the crushing blade in a direction in which the crushing blade runs from the input port, and the crushing blade crushes the material in advance within the crushing processing portion, wherein the inner surface of the crushing processing portion comprises a material 30 guide surface continuing from the input port and formed to be inclined toward a central 6 axis of the crushing portion, whereby the material guide surface guides the material so that a lateral side of the material begins to be crushed by the crushing blade, wherein the crushing blade is formed so that the material input through the input port is crushed while a lateral side of the material is pushed outwards, and the crushing 5 processing portion is provided with an inner surface to hold the material pushed outwards by the crushing blade, whereby the material is crushed between the crushing blade and the inner surface of the crushing processing portion. Also disclosed herein is a juice extraction module for a juicer, which includes a container 100 formed with a juice discharge port 101, a sieve 200 positioned inside of the 10 container 100, a screw 300 positioned inside of the sieve 200 to extract juice from a material, and a lid 400 coupled to a top end of the container 100 and formed with a input port 410 through which the material is input. The juice extraction module includes a crushing portion 500 formed on a top end of the screw 300 to be narrowed upward, the crushing portion 500 having a crushing blade 15 510 formed thereon; and a crushing processing portion 600 connected to the input port 410 and formed in a bottom of the lid 400 to be concave for accommodating the crushing portion 500, wherein the crushing blade 510 crushes the material in advance within the crushing processing portion 600. According to one embodiment, the crushing blade 510 is formed so that the 20 material input through the input port 410 is crushed while a lateral side of the material is pushed outwards, and the crushing processing portion 600 is provided with an inner surface to hold the material pushed outwards by the crushing blade 510, whereby the material can be crushed between the crushing blade 510 and the inner surface of the crushing processing portion 600. 25 According to one embodiment, the crushing processing portion 600 is formed to cover an entire bottom region of the input port 410 at the height of the crushing processing portion 600 connected to a bottom end of the input port 410. According to one embodiment, a bottom region of the input port 410 is positioned to be offset within a semicircle region of a circle having a diameter corresponding to a 30 diameter of the crushing processing portion 600 with a central shaft 310 of the screw 300 7 as a center. According to one embodiment, the inner surface of the crushing processing portion 600 comprises a crushing processing surface 610 formed to be increasingly close to the crushing blade 510 in a direction in which the crushing blade 510 runs from the input 5 port 410. According to one embodiment, the inner surface of the crushing processing portion 600 comprises a material guide surface 620 continuing from the input port 410 and formed to be inclined toward a central axis of the crushing portion 500, whereby the material guide surface 620 guides the material so that a lateral side of the material begins 10 to be crushed by the crushing blade 510. According to one embodiment, a bottom end of the material guide surface 620 may conform to an inner surface of the sieve 200. According to one embodiment, the crushing portion 500 passes over a top end of the sieve 200 and is accommodated in the crushing processing portion 600, and the 15 crushing blade 510 cooperates with the crushing processing portion 600 to crush the material. Also disclosed herein is a juice extraction module for a juicer, which includes a container 100 formed with a residue discharge port 102 and a juice discharge port 101; a sieve 200 positioned inside of the container 100; a screw 300 positioned inside of the sieve 20 200 to extract juice from a material, and a lid 400 coupled to a top end of the container 100 and formed with a input port 410 through which the material is input, wherein a crushing portion 500 is formed on a top end of the screw 300 to be narrowed upward, the crushing portion 500 having a crushing blade 510 formed thereon, wherein the lid 400 is formed with a crushing processing portion 600, the crushing processing portion 600 being 25 connected to the input port 410 and accommodating the crushing portion 500, wherein the input port 410 is disposed to be offset outwards from a central axis of the screw 300 and has a width larger than the shortest distance from the central axis of the screw 300 to an inner circumferential surface of a top end of the sieve 200, wherein the crushing processing portion 600 is formed with a material guide surface for assisting guidance of the material 30 from the input port 410 to the sieve 200.
8 The crushing blade 510 and the crushing processing portion 600 are formed so that a distance between the crushing blade 510 and an inner surface of the crushing processing portion 600 is gradually reduced by the rotation of the crushing blade 510 The crushing processing portion 600 comprises a crushing processing surface 610, 5 the crushing processing surface 610 is formed with at least one milling blade 630. Also disclosed herein is a juice extraction module for a juicer, which includes a container 100 formed with a juice discharge port 101, a sieve 200 positioned inside of the container 100, a screw 300 positioned inside of the sieve 200 to extract juice from a material, and a lid 400 coupled to a top end of the container 100 and formed with a input 10 port 410 through which the material is input, the juice extraction module comprising: a crushing portion 500 formed on a top end of the screw 300 to be narrowed upward, the crushing portion 500 having a crushing blade 510 formed thereon; and a crushing processing portion 600 connected to the input port 410 and formed in a bottom of the lid 400 to be concave for accommodating the crushing portion 500, wherein an inner surface 15 of the crushing processing portion 600 includes a crushing processing surface 610 formed to be increasingly close to the crushing blade 510 in a direction in which the crushing blade 510 runs from the input port 410, and the crushing blade 510 crushes the material in advance within the crushing processing portion 600. Also disclosed herein is a juice extraction module for a juicer, which includes a 20 container 100 formed with a juice discharge port 101, a sieve 200 positioned inside of the container 100, a screw 300 positioned inside of the sieve 200 to extract juice from a material, and a lid 400 coupled to a top end of the container 100 and formed with a input port 410 through which the material is input, the juice extraction module including: a crushing portion 500 formed on a top end of the screw 300 to be narrowed upward, the 25 crushing portion 500 having a crushing blade 510 formed thereon; and a crushing processing portion 600 connected to the input port 410 and formed in a bottom of the lid 400 to be concave for accommodating the crushing portion 500, wherein an inner surface of the crushing processing portion 600 comprises a material guide surface 620 continuing from the input port 410 and formed to be inclined toward a central axis of the crushing 30 portion 500, whereby the material guide surface 620 guides the material so that a lateral 9 side of the material begins to be crushed by the crushing blade 510, and the crushing blade 510 crushes the material in advance within the crushing processing portion 600. A conventional juicer has inconvenience and difficulty in that an increase in length of a screw blade increases an entire outer diameter of a screw, and thus, a sieve, a 5 container and a lid should be manufactured large so as to be fitted to the screw. However, according to the present disclosure, a material having a diameter larger than a length of a screw blade can be used, and the material can be crushed into a size suitable for extracting juice without increasing an outer diameter of a screw by a crushing processing portion formed to be concave in a bottom of a lid and a crushing portion accommodated in the 10 crushing processing portion and cooperating with the crushing processing portion. An embodiment of the present invention may reduce or eliminate the inconvenience and cumbersomeness that a user should chop a material before the material is input. In addition, in an embodiment disclosed herein, a space between the crushing 15 blade and the crushing processing portion may be gradually narrowed and the material may be caught and simultaneously dragged into between the crushing blade and the crushing processing portion, so that the material is effectively crushed while being automatically supplied to the screw without inconveniently pushing the material. 20 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing a juice extraction module for a juicer according to one embodiment of the present invention; Fig. 2 is a sectional view showing the juice extraction module according to the 25 embodiment of the present invention; Fig. 3 is a plan view showing a lid of the juice extraction module shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a sectional view of the lid taken along line A-A of Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the lid taken along line B-B of Fig. 3; and Fig. 6 is a front view showing a screw having a crushing portion provided on a top 30 end thereof as a portion of juice extraction module shown in Fig. 1.
10 DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in 5 detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The following embodiments are provided only for illustrative purposes so that those skilled in the art can fully understand the spirit of the present invention. Therefore, the present invention is not limited to the following embodiments but may be implemented in other forms. 10 In the drawings, the widths, lengths, thicknesses and the like of elements may be exaggerated for convenience of illustration. Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing a juice extraction module for a juicer according to one embodiment of the present invention; Fig. 2 is a sectional view showing The juice extraction module according to the embodiment of the present invention; Fig. 3 15 is a plan view showing a lid of the juice extraction module shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a sectional view of the lid taken along line A-A of Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the lid taken along line B-B of Fig. 3; and Fig. 6 is a front view showing a screw having a crushing portion provided on a top end thereof as a portion of juice extraction module shown in Fig. 1. 20 Referring to Figs. 1 to 6, a juice extraction module for a juicer according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a container 100 having a juice extraction space defined therein and having a juice discharge port 101 and a residue discharge port 102 respectively formed in one and another sides of an outer surface thereof, a sieve 200 installed inside of the container 100 to separate juice from material residues generated in 25 juice extraction, a screw 300 installed inside of the sieve 200 to extract juice from the material, and a lid 400 installed to a top end of the container 100 and formed with an input port 410, through which a material is input. Although not shown, an opening/closing means for selectively opening and closing the juice discharge port 101 of the container 100 may be applied to the juice 30 extraction module.
11 As the opening/closing means, a cock valve may be used. The cock valve includes a valve body moving forward or backward in the juice discharge port 101, wherein a leading end of the valve body is preferably oriented toward the juice discharge port 101. 5 In addition, the cock valve may include a juice discharge cock, which may be selectively connected to the juice discharge port 101 by the valve body. As a means for opening and closing the juice discharge port 101, a variety of means may be employed in addition to the above structure. A crushing portion 500 is formed on a top end of the screw 300 to have a shape 10 narrowed upward. The crushing portion 500 has further a crushing blade 510 formed thereon, wherein the crushing blade 510 extends in the shape of a spiral having a width gradually narrowed upward, more preferably toward a top apex of the crushing portion 500. A central shaft 310 of the screw 300 may be formed on the top apex of the 15 crushing portion 500. The lid 400 has a crushing processing portion 600 formed in a bottom thereof to be concave upward from a face coupled with the container 100 in order to accommodate the crushing portion 500. The crushing processing portion 600 has a shape gradually narrowed toward a top 20 apex corresponding to the crushing portion 500. In addition, the top apex of the crushing processing portion 600 is formed with a shaft hole, into which the central shaft 310 of the screw 300 is rotatably fitted. While being connected with the input port 410, the crushing processing portion 600 cooperates with the crushing portion 500 to serve to crush the material input through 25 the input port 410. The crushing blade 510 is inserted and positioned in the crushing processing portion 600, and the crushing blade 510 cooperates with a specific shape of an inner surface of the crushing processing portion 600 to crush the material. The input port 410 is offset toward one side with respect to a central axis of the 30 screw 300 and simultaneously should have such a large bottom width W (or inner 12 diameter) that a large-sized material such as an apple is allowed to be input without being chopped. The sieve 200 has the largest inner diameter at the top end thereof, and thus, a distance from the central axis of the screw 300 to the sieve 200 is set up to be largest at the 5 top end of the sieve 200. The bottom width of the input port 410 is set up to be larger than the shortest distance from the central axis of the screw 300 to an inner circumferential surface of the top end of the sieve 200. Accordingly, as viewed from the top, a region of the input port 410 partially 10 overlaps with a top end region of the sieve 200 and is out of the top end region of the sieve 200. In contrast, a conventional juicer has a small-sized input port so as to be generally positioned inside of a region of a sieve. Also, the crushing processing portion 600 is formed to cover the entire bottom 15 region of the input port 410 at the height of the crushing processing portion 600 connected to the bottom end of the input port 410. Further, the input port 410 is within a circle region having a diameter corresponding to the diameter of the crushing processing portion 600 with the central shaft 310 of the screw 300 as the center, and more preferably, is positioned to be offset within 20 one side of semicircle regions into which the circle region is divided by a line passing through the central shaft 310. In addition, the inner surface of the crushing processing portion 600, particularly an inner crushing processing surface 610 is formed to be increasingly close to the crushing blade 510 of the crushing portion 500 in a direction in which the crushing blade 510 runs 25 from the bottom end of the input port 410. Accordingly, when the material is expelled out by the crushing blade 510, the material is held by the inner surface of the crushing processing portion 600, so that a lateral side of the material is crushed by the crushing blade 510, and the material is dragged into the crushing processing portion according to the rotation of the crushing portion. 30 This provides an effect of automatically crushing the material even if a user inputs 13 the material and then does not push the material again. The crushing portion 500 further has one or more auxiliary crushing blades formed thereon so that they assist the crushing blade 510 to crush the material more effectively. 5 In such a case, the crushing blade 510 first crushes the material, and the auxiliary crushing blades may crush the material more finely. Also, as the material is dragged into the crushing processing portion, the force of pressing the screw downward is generated, so that there is an effect of suppressing the upward movement of the screw generated by permeation of material residues between a 10 bottom surface of the screw and a floor surface of the container. As mentioned above, since a portion of the input port 410 extends out of the top end region of the sieve 200, a material guide surface 620 is provided on the inner surface of the crushing processing portion 600 so that the material input through the input port 410 can be guided to the sieve 200. 15 That is, the material guide surface 620 is provided as an element for smoothly connecting the sieve 200 and the input port 410 extending to the outside to such an extent as to use an uncut apple as it is. Also, the material guide surface 620 continues from the input port 410 while overlapping with the input port 410 and is formed to be inclined toward the central axis of 20 the crushing portion 500, thereby causing a lateral side of the material to begin to be crushed by the crushing blade 510. In order to improve crushing processibility, one or more milling blades 630 may be further formed on the crushing processing surface 610. In this embodiment, the plurality of milling blades 630 are spaced apart from each 25 other and extend from an upper portion of the crushing processing surface 610 to a lower portion thereof, and each of the milling blades 630 is increasingly close to the crushing blade 510 as it goes from the upper portion toward the lower portion. The crushing portion 500 passes over the top end of the container 100 and sieve 200 and is accommodated and positioned in the crushing processing portion 600 positioned 30 in the lid 400. The crushing portion 500 and the crushing processing portion 600 14 cooperate with each other to fully crush the material input through the input port 410, thereby making it possible to smoothly extract juice from the material even if the user does not chop the material in advance. Since the juice is extracted from the material fully crushed as above in the sieve 5 200, there is an effect of preventing the sieve 200 from being deformed. In addition, a lateral side of the material is processed by the crushing blade 510, which can be performed only by forming the crushing portion 500 to have a length suitable for the height of the material. Thus, the protruding length of the screw blade need not extend in order to cut the material itself. 10 Further, a sieve insertion step 420 may be formed in a bottom of the crushing processing portion 600 to be snugly fitted to the top end of the sieve 200. The bottom end of the material guide surface 620 meets the sieve insertion step 420 in a stepwise manner, wherein the bottom end of the material guide surface 620 is formed to conform to an inner surface of the top end of the sieve 200. 15 Accordingly, the material crushed through the crushing processing portion 600 is smoothly guided into the sieve 200 along the material guide surface 620. As described above, it can be seen that the illustrated embodiments provide a juice extraction module for a juicer, in which a structure of crushing a material in advance is provided in a lid and a screw to reduce or eliminate an inconvenient procedure of chopping 20 or cutting a material in advance before inputting the material. INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY It is obvious to those skilled in the art that various modifications and applications 25 can also be made without departing from the scope of the present invention.

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1. A juice extraction module for a juicer, which includes a container formed with a juice discharge port, a sieve positioned inside of the container, a screw positioned inside of 5 the sieve to rotate about a central axis and extract juice from a material, and a lid coupled to a top end of the container and formed with a input port through which the material is input, the juice extraction module comprising: a crushing portion formed on a top end of the screw to be narrowed upward, the crushing portion having a crushing blade formed thereon; and 10 a crushing processing portion connected to the input port and formed in a bottom of the lid to be concave for accommodating the crushing portion on the top end of the screw, an inner surface of the crushing processing portion including a crushing processing surface and a material guide surface, wherein the crushing processing surface is formed to be increasingly close to the 15 crushing blade of the screw in a rotational direction in which the crushing blade rotates about the central axis during operation such that a first distance between the crushing processing surface and an outer edge of the crushing blade at a first location rotationally adjacent the input port is greater than a second distance between the crushing processing surface and the outer edge of the crushing blade at a second location rotationally adjacent 20 the first location and such that the second distance between the crushing processing surface and the outer edge of the crushing blade at the second location is greater than a third distance between the crushing processing surface and the outer edge of the crushing blade at a third location rotationally adjacent the second location, wherein the material guide surface continues from the input port and is formed to 25 be inclined toward the central axis, whereby the material guide surface guides the material so that a lateral side of the material begins to be crushed by the crushing blade, and wherein the crushing blade crushes the material in advance within the crushing processing portion formed in the bottom of the lid. 30
2. The juice extraction module according to claim 1, wherein the crushing blade is 16 formed so that the material input through the input port is crushed while a lateral side of the material is pushed outwards, and the crushing processing portion is provided with an inner surface to hold the material pushed outwards by the crushing blade, whereby the material is crushed between the crushing blade and the inner surface of the crushing 5 processing portion.
3. The juice extraction module according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the crushing processing portion covers an entire bottom region of the input port at the height of the crushing processing portion connected to a bottom end of the input port. 10
4. The juice extraction module according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a bottom region of the input port is positioned to be offset within a semicircle region of a circle having a diameter corresponding to a diameter of the crushing processing portion with a central shaft of the screw as a center. 15
5. The juice extraction module according to claim 1, wherein a bottom end of the material guide surface conforms to an inner surface of the sieve.
6. The juice extraction module according to claim 1, wherein the crushing portion of 20 the screw extends to pass over a top end of the sieve and the crushing portion is accommodated in the crushing processing portion of the lid.
7. A juice extraction module for a juicer, comprising: a container formed with a residue discharge port and a juice discharge port; 25 a sieve positioned inside of the container; a screw positioned inside of the sieve to extract juice from a material, and a lid coupled to a top end of the container and formed with a input port through which the material is input, wherein a crushing portion is formed on a top end of the screw to be narrowed 30 upward, the crushing portion having a crushing blade formed thereon, 17 wherein the lid is formed with a crushing processing portion, the crushing processing portion being connected to the input port and accommodating the crushing portion, wherein the input port is disposed to be offset outwards from a central axis of the 5 screw and has a width larger than the shortest distance from the central axis of the screw to an inner circumferential surface of a top end of the sieve, wherein the crushing processing portion is formed with a material guide surface for assisting guidance of the material from the input port to the sieve wherein an inner surface of the crushing processing portion comprises a crushing 10 processing surface that is formed to be increasingly close to the crushing blade of the screw in a rotational direction in which the crushing blade rotates about the central axis during operation such that a first distance between the crushing processing surface and an outer edge of the crushing blade at a first location rotationally adjacent the input port is greater than a second distance between the crushing processing surface and the outer edge 15 of the crushing blade at a second location rotationally adjacent the first location and such that the second distance between the crushing processing surface and the outer edge of the crushing blade at the second location is greater than a third distance between the crushing processing surface and the outer edge of the crushing blade at a third location rotationally adjacent the second location, and 20 wherein the material guide surface continues from the input port and is formed to be inclined toward the central axis of the screw, whereby the material guide surface guides the material so that a lateral side of the material begins to be crushed by the crushing blade.
8. The juice extraction module according to claim 7, wherein the crushing 25 processing surface is formed with at least one milling blade.
9. The juice extraction module according to claim 1, wherein the crushing processing surface is formed with at least one milling blade. 30
10. A juice extraction module for a juicer comprising: 18 a container formed with a juice discharge port; a sieve positioned inside of the container; a screw positioned inside of the sieve to rotate about a central axis and extract juice from a material, the screw including a crushing portion formed at a top end thereof 5 which includes a crushing blade formed thereon; and a lid coupled to a top end of the container and formed with an input port through which the material is input and formed with a crushing processing portion connected to the input port at a bottom of the lid, the crushing processing portion being concave to accommodate the crushing portion at the top end of the screw and having an inner surface 10 that includes a crushing processing surface, wherein the crushing processing surface is formed to be increasingly close to the crushing blade of the screw in a rotational direction in which the crushing blade rotates about the central axis during operation such that a first distance between the crushing processing surface and an outer edge of the crushing blade at a first location rotationally 15 adjacent the input port is greater than a second distance between the crushing processing surface and the outer edge of the crushing blade at a second location rotationally adjacent the first location and such that the second distance between the crushing processing surface and the outer edge of the crushing blade at the second location is greater than a third distance between the crushing processing surface and the outer diameter of the crushing 20 blade at a third location rotationally adjacent the second location.
11. The juice extraction module according to claim 10, wherein the crushing processing portion further includes a material guide surface that continues from the input port and is formed to be inclined toward the central axis, whereby the material guide 25 surface guides the material so that a lateral side of the material begins to be crushed by the crushing blade during operation.
12. A juice extraction module for a juicer, which includes a container formed with a juice discharge port, a sieve positioned inside of the container, a screw positioned inside of 30 the sieve to extract juice from a material, and a lid coupled to a top end of the container 19 and formed with a input port through which the material is input, the juice extraction module comprising: a crushing portion formed on a top end of the screw to be narrowed upward, the crushing portion having a crushing blade formed thereon; and 5 a crushing processing portion connected to the input port and formed in a bottom of the lid to be concave for accommodating the crushing portion, wherein an inner surface of the crushing processing portion comprises a crushing processing surface formed to be increasingly close to the crushing blade in a direction in which the crushing blade runs from the input port, and the crushing blade crushes the 10 material in advance within the crushing processing portion, wherein the inner surface of the crushing processing portion comprises a material guide surface continuing from the input port and formed to be inclined toward a central axis of the crushing portion, whereby the material guide surface guides the material so that a lateral side of the material begins to be crushed by the crushing blade, 15 wherein the crushing blade is formed so that the material input through the input port is crushed while a lateral side of the material is pushed outwards, and the crushing processing portion is provided with an inner surface to hold the material pushed outwards by the crushing blade, whereby the material is crushed between the crushing blade and the inner surface of the crushing processing portion. 20
13. The juice extraction module according to claim 12, wherein a bottom end of the material guide surface conforms to an inner surface of the sieve positioned inside of the container.
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