Juicer

DETAILED DESCRIPTION One facet of applicant's contribution over the known prior art involves the utilization of more advanced technology with respect to components which are selectively removable from the juicer apparatus.
Heretofore the machine could not be disabled if a critical part were to have been omitted.
For example, when one is juicing, a feeder throat communicating with a juicer body would admit food stuffs to a cutter which would then coact with the food stuffs and either liquefy them or discharge them through an end of the juicer housing as a paste.
More specifically, the juicer body is intended to include a sliding screen holder at a bottom area of the juicer body opposite from the top mounted feeding throat.
When the holder supports a screen below the cutter, liquid would be dispensed through the screen and into an underlying container.
Pulp would be discharged through a discharge end of the juicer body.
On the other hand, should it be desired that the food stuff be rendered into a paste-like form, it is not desirable to separate the juice or oil from the pulp, but rather it is desirable to keep them commingled.
In such event, the screen will have been replaced with a plate that blocks the access normally existing through the screen.
Thus, the entire food product is discharged through the discharge end of the juicer body.
Nut butters can be made this way.
Until now, there was no practical way to disable the machine should the screen holder not be installed on a bottom face of the juicer body.
The effect of its omission is that access to the cutter can be afforded where the screen holder would normally be.
This, by itself, is not objectionable, but should the user also neglect to put a container for catching the liquid that is generated by the action of the cutter, when the machine is operated, liquid will spill onto a counter surface.
Just having the liquid disposed on a counter surface is a relatively minor annoyance.
However, human nature induces a reflexive action in which the user of the machine may attempt to minimize the amount of spillage