CANE JUICE EXTRACTOR

The cane juice extractor includes a wagon that may be attached to or pulled alongside a
harvesting machine or combine for application in-field. The wagon includes a frame having an
upper deck and a lower deck. The upper deck includes an inlet side where harvested cane may be
fed for juice extraction and an outlet side for disposing the pulp. Rotating feeders feed cane to a
cutting station on the upper deck. The cutting station comminutes the cane into billets that are
carried by an endless belt through a series of compression roller sets. Each set of rollers
compress the cut cane down to smaller dimensions to extract the juice. A chute disposed between
the upper and lower decks collects the juices and funnels them into a juice storage tank on the
lower deck. The pulp is expelled from the outlet side to the field.

J. Edwin Roy, Lafeyette, LA (US), Patent No.: US 7,918,160 B2

SUGAR CANE JUICE EXTRACTOR

An improved sugar cane juice extractor has removable crushing rollers. The juice extractor
preferably includes a housing with a juice extracting compartment and a closure for accessing the
compartment. The closure is preferably a clear plate which permits viewing of the compartment
during operation and, when removed, allows access to the compartment for removal of the
crushing rollers and cleaning of the rollers and the compartment. A safety switch can be provided
to prevent rotation of the rollers when the closure is displaced. A guide into the compartment is
preferably provided to direct the sugar cane and any flavorings into the crushing rollers. A waste
channel is provided for the exit of crushed cane pulp.

Alfredo J. Sanchez; Rafael E. Sanchez, Jr., both of West Palm Beach; Charles J. Stenmann, Jr.,
Palm Springs, all of Fla., Patent Number: 5,320,035

INFELD MOBILE SYRUP EXTRACTOR

The preferred and illustrated embodiment of this disclosure sets forth a harvesting device for
stalk crops such as sweet sorghum or sugar cane. The apparatus incorporates a pair of spaced
counter-rotating cutter blades which include cutters or splines which pinch the stalks at many
places to feed the stalks. They feed the stalks toward an extraction drum. The extraction drum
crushes the stalks cooperative with a pair of counter rotating rollers. This squeezes the
recoverable liquid and pulp from the stalk, and that flows downwardly into the bottom of the
apparatus where a container collects it and it is subsequently removed. The dry, broken pieces of
the stalks are then fed out of the apparatus into a chopper and then into a large centrifugal blower
which blows the pulp and chopped pieces away from the apparatus.

Arlen G. Brune; Nelson Schmidt, both of Columbus, Tex., Patent Number: 4,407,111
MILL ROLL WITH INCREASED JUICE FLOW CAPACTY

A mill roll for a juice extracting system having a plurality of circumferential grooves and a
plurality of spiral flow passages extending from end to end below the surface of the roll. A
plurality of holes around each circumferential groove open into the flow passages so that juice
squeezed between the rolls flows through the holes and out the spiral passages. With the
passages disposed spirally, the rolls may be used as the bottom roll in a three roll mill because
juice squeezed between the top roll and a bottom roll and flowing into a channel will exit below
the restraining flange normally provided on the top roll.

Jean Bouvet, 1319 Butterfield Rd., San Anselmo, Calif. 94960, Patent Number: 4,546,698

METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUGAR CANE JUICE

Development of a Sugarcane Juice Extractor for Small Scale Industries

The major areas of need in the cane industry are identified along the plant process as cane
preparation, milling, juice extraction, sugar boiling and separation of crystal. Mechanical power
is the most essential need in these areas, except for juice concentration and sugar boiling that
requires heat. The milling of sugarcane is a unit operation that crucial for making sugarcane juice
available for various applications. The currently available sugarcane juice extractors require high
energy and sophisticated mills, driven mechanically. These are out of the reach of small scale
and rural farmers that are presently involved in processing of cane juice into ethanol, brown
sugar and other related products in Nigeria. The development of a small scale sugarcane juice
extractor was therefore to meet the needs of the small scale farmers who cannot afford the high
capacity and complex cane crushers. This successfully project designed and constructed a simple
mechanical device for extraction of sugarcane juice. The functional performance and economics
operations of the machine were evaluated. The output capacities of 10.50, 12.00 and 14.25 kg/ hr
were obtained at operating speeds of 0.25, 0.3 and 0.36 m/s. The extraction efficiency of the
machine ranged between 40 and 61 % at operating speeds of 0.25 and 0.36 m/s. It was observed
that this optimum performance of the machine cannot be sustained over a long processing period
due to the bluntness development of the perforated grating drum over time. However, conditions
that enhanced in maximum operating performance were enumerated

Olaoye, J. O. (2011) Development of a sugarcane juice extractor for small scale industries.
Journal of Agricultural Technology 7(4):931-944.

Development of a sugarcane juice extractor for small scale industries

A motorized sugarcane juice extractor was developed, constructed and tested to assist the small
and medium sugarcane crusher to extract juice from sugarcane. The machine grinds the vertically
loaded sugarcane stem and presses the macerated stem against the cylindrical cone to extract the
juice from the wet bagasse. The machine consists of the housing, shaft, bearings, keys, pulleys,
rollers, hopper, v belt, adjusters and gears electric motor etc. The performance tests carried out
on the developed machine showed an efficiency of 65%. This machine can be produced in small
machine shops in the sugarcane producing areas instead of depending on the imported ones.

Kehinde A. Adewole, Michael T. Adamolekun, Robinson Akinnusi. Department of Mechanical

Engineering, The Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. 1kaadewole@futa.edu.ng,