| 20110120323 | VERTICAL PRESS FOR GRAPES AND OTHER FRUIT - A press is provided including a perforated draining drum; a juice collecting vat on a bottom of which the perforated drum is rested; a mobile member, located above the drum and activated with a vertical movement by powering device; a presser plate, which descends in the drum, to press the load; raising mechanism for raising the drum to extract the pressed product residue. The press also includes: a stem, carried by the mobile member, having a lower end to which the plate is fixed and having a variable length between a maximum and a minimum length which is reached following descent of the mobile member and an elastic member acting on the stem to increase its length, thereby displacing the residue of pressed product out of the drum. The residue is evacuated automatically by simple bodies which do not require operating liquids which might undesirably fall into the collecting vat. | 05-26-2011 |
