Apple juice makes most people positive emotions. But the quality of the product sold in stores does not always satisfy necessary requirements. That's why it's worth getting it with my own hands using special tools.
Why is it so important?
In principle, you can do without an apple crusher, using a meat grinder with special nozzle or even squeezing the juice by hand. But this greatly increases the cost of time and labor. Self-manufacturing of crushing devices allows you to simplify your work. In addition, it is much more profitable than buying a finished product. Crushed into small pieces of apple mass allows you to extract more delicious juice.
Wherein:
- the mass of waste is radically reduced;
- work becomes less tiring;
- crushers designed according to all the rules are not difficult to repair on their own.
How to make everything?
To make a homemade crusher with your own hands, you will need a typical set of tools that almost all craftsmen have. No special fixtures are needed. The grinding design is:
- wooden;
- steel;
- combined type.
You need to start by choosing a sheet of tin. Metal is processed using a lathe, steps for the shaft and bearings are made of tin. In the manufacture of a gear shaft, 8 faces must be removed, and triangular notches must also be formed when help angle grinders. Make the case out of the old washing machine, which has vertical loading. But designs with horizontal loading are not suitable for work.
Taken from the car outer part, which consists of stainless steel up to 0.2 cm thick. When processing, a metal workpiece must be cut into four segments. Half of them become end elements, and the remaining two become side parts. Next, you need to connect all these parts using welding machine. Before final welding of the side fragments steel sheets the bottom needs a little bending.
In this case, a gap is formed that separates the wall from the rotating shaft. It is very important that the shaft is firmly fixed. If this requirement is not met, the rotation will not be smooth. Mounting on bearing assemblies is recommended, similar topics, which are applied in circular saws Oh. But the vibrating and shaking crusher must be placed very steadily.
The crusher is attached to the support frames. These frames are made with metal corners. Not every tree is suitable for work, but only material from strong rocks. Also, when drawing up drawings, it is required to provide a reservoir for the accumulation of processed apple pulp. This reservoir is placed under pressure.
There are a few more subtleties in the design. A frequent problem is an unusually strong bending of the case. Helps prevent it fixing the body to the upper points of the frame due to bolts. It is necessary to provide a place for installing wide dishes, otherwise the juice will splatter on the sides. A low frame is preferable: if it is high, the pulp will begin to crumble down and also provoke splashes.
To make it more convenient to work later, use a stretching belt. Belt retention is provided by a special bolt. The movement of the main unit will occur along the guide structures. Rollers and a special handle are added to the frame. Thanks to these elements, the movement of the grinder is greatly simplified.
Assembly of other elements
A quality apple crusher should have start adjustment devices. Despite the "high-tech" name, there is nothing complicated about it - it means just a switch button. The electric motor is placed on the side of the main structure of the crusher.
With quality design and careful work, homemade crushers often outperform branded products. It is necessary to think over everything so that washing even the farthest corners of the chopper is not difficult.
Before making your own drawings, you should familiarize yourself with the developments of other craftsmen. In order not to look for which motor to put, you can take the engine from the same washing machines or vacuum cleaners. Instead of metal, sometimes wood is used to construct a crusher. This option is much easier to work with. In this case, the container where the apples are to be loaded is made with three horizontal walls, another one is placed at an angle.
Such a solution has already proved itself many times over by simplifying the loading of processed products. Shafts are formed from steel or from especially durable wood. The caps of the screws screwed into the shaft turn out to be teeth, upon contact with which even the most durable apple is crushed. For your information: constructions in which the screws are placed in a spiral demonstrate increased performance. It is along this trajectory that the pulp moves.
The size of the bunker is always selected according to the number of apples that are planned to be processed. It is very good when the working chamber rests on a special stand with legs. On the side where the container will be placed, a hole is immediately made. The size of the passage should also be selected in accordance with the performance of the crusher. The original way set the shaft in motion - using a drill:
- the axis is immediately brought out;
- a drill tip is placed on this axis;
- this solution helps to ensure fast rotation and process a large volume of apples in a short time.
It is useful to think about interchangeable nozzles. They help to achieve a variety of fruit grinding. Some knives make extruded round holes. Others also make an extruded recess, but already in the form of a slot. Still others extrude a hole again, this time with burrs.
To fasten parts of crushers to each other, they use:
- M8x20 screws with a hexagon inside;
- screws for holding knives with convex heads M3x8;
- bolts M12x25;
- screws with hexagons M10x16 and M10x25;
- 6307 series bearings;
- Belleville washers IS6731-32;
- round nuts with slots version M32x1.5.
additional information
All parts that will come into contact with food products, it is required to make stainless steel of suitable grades. When selecting the pulley diameter, it is necessary to focus on a standardized range of parts with a transmission coefficient of 2.
Crushers for apples allow you to confidently process the pulp of pears as well. Aluminum pans can be used as a container for the fruit mass. You only need to drill holes in it around the perimeter at the same level.
Another production option working chamber involves the use of a cylinder made of stainless steel grades. The length of such a cylinder should be 0.4 m, and the diameter should be 0.2 m. The screws are wound both on the left and on the right. It's like a spring for a car. This technique allows you to radically reduce the noise during operation.
How to make an apple chopper with your own hands, see the following video.
The house I'm renting stands on a plot with several apple trees. The trees are old and tall. Apples are hanging - you can't reach them. You can’t even get everyone from a ladder-ladder.
It is not necessary to wait for full maturation. Apples themselves fall to the ground according to the law of attraction. Any worms and wind help.
Carrion is not stored for more than a week. Broken places rot. Worms are fattening.
Cooking jam requires a huge amount of sugar. And takes a lot of time. And more than one bucket of apples is poured.
Here's to squeezing juice from apples. Freshly squeezed juice without sterilization in the refrigerator will stand for a couple of days.
And if it starts to ferment, add a little sugar, but under the shutter. You look, and here the wine turned out for the new year!
You can, of course, buy a factory juicer. Then squeeze it into filled cabinets in a cramped kitchen, drag around when moving.
And here in the yard there is a garage, a bunch of wooden boards. I also bought all sorts of jigsaw drills for work. Self-tapping screws in the garage are laid out on the shelves.
It remains only to file, drill, twist. So this is my favorite thing!
I climbed into the Internet, watched videos on YouTube, who made what. Lots of homemade apple crushers and juice presses. It seems nothing complicated.
Bought a new two ton car jack and mounting tape from galvanization.
I didn't have time to take pictures while I was assembling the accessories, so I'm only showing how it works and works.
I warn you! If you are an esthete and a lover of beauty, it is better to fall in love with. Squeezing juice in the garage is an unsightly sight.
Apple crusher
I pick apples and wash them with water from dirt. First of all, I crush apples in a homemade crusher.
The crusher drive is a small drill with a power of 350 watts, which is enough to crush whole apples.
Apples are poured in small portions into a bunker made from scraps of laminated chipboard and ground by a drum. The hopper itself is simply placed on top and is not attached to anything, which makes it easy to remove it for cleaning.
The work table is a piece of laminated worktop (these remain after inserting the sink into the kitchen furniture). A hole was cut in the tabletop, 60 × 40 mm pine bars were screwed on both sides of it.
In turn, oak planks are fastened with self-tapping screws to pine bars. Holes were drilled in oak planks for a pin on which the crusher drum was mounted. No bearings are used.
The drum is glued together from four pieces of beech board 25 mm thick (an old shelf from the pantry). Boards glued together acrylic adhesive. The resulting beam 100 × 100 mm is slightly rounded with a planer. Then a hole was drilled along the axis and the drum was glued onto a 10 mm diameter stud.
I put the stud with the drum blank in place, securing the long end of the stud in the drill chuck. When you turn on the drill, we get, as it were, a lathe. The drum rotates along with the pin, and using a stand from a bar and a chisel, we give it the shape of an almost perfect cylinder. Having machined the drum, I screwed 25 mm self-tapping screws into it. Self-tapping screws protrude from the wood by about 10 mm.
After the first crushings, the planks were warped due to getting wet and one seam was torn. I had to re-glue and additionally scroll the entire body of the drum with self-tapping screws 70 mm long.
Fifteen to twenty minutes of the crusher, and we already have a bucket of crushed apples, we can move on to squeezing the juice. The frame for wringing is assembled from boards and bars, in places on self-tapping screws, in places on studs.
The lid of the putty bucket serves as a tray for the wringing basket. Of course it would be better to use right size a basin with a flat bottom, in our case we simply tilt the entire frame to drain the juice.
Place the basket on the pallet. The wringing basket is made of slats 20×35 mm fastened together with a perforated galvanized mounting tape. The gaps between the rails were set by eye about 1 cm.
Initially, the basket was about 40 cm high, now it is about 25 cm. At this height, a third of a bucket of chopped apples is placed in the basket.
To filter the juice, we put ordinary gauze folded in half in the basket.
Pour crushed apples into the resulting gauze bag.
The free ends of the gauze are brought together and twisted together.
A piston of two circles of beech board (the same one from which the drum is made) is placed on a bag of gauze. Initially, the piston circles were glued together, but they also warped and the adhesive seam broke. Since everything works in this form, it makes no sense to glue warped mugs.
Juice begins to run even before the piston is pressed down. We tilt the frame so that the juice flows into the substituted bowl. Slightly push the piston by hand. Juice is gone!
We install a two-ton car jack on top of the piston. The jack rod rests against the upper crossbar of the frames reinforced with a strip of metal (to distribute the load).
We tilt the frame for draining the juice into a bowl (we support it with a specially trained rail) and swing the handle of the jack. The process is underway full swing. We squeeze the piston with a jack, wait a bit, we squeeze it again. We give time to drain the juice. For the time being, we can sit down, relax and crack nuts with a homemade nutcracker.
After several spins, instead of a lid, we fit a cropped putty bucket with drilled hole for plum.
As a result, in twenty minutes a bucket of chopped apples turns into 4-5 liters of juice. Apple juice, squeezed out with your own hands with the help of simple homemade devices. What a yummy!!!
How to make an apple chopper with your own hands? To squeeze juice from apples or grapes with a press, you need them Preliminary processing. Apples need to be crushed, and grapes crushed. After all, the higher the degree of grinding, the more output juice. You can not only buy an apple crusher, but also make it yourself. To do this, all you need is the tools that are in your garage and, of course, a little ingenuity will come in handy. Chopper (crusher) for apples, fruits, vegetables and grapes powered by a do-it-yourself drill This is the most cheap way, since you do not need to buy an electric motor, order parts from a turner, etc. An apple and grape chopper can be made from a plastic bucket. 1) Plastic bucket Buy a 20 liter bucket. Remove the plastic cover and handle - they will no longer be useful to you. 2) Cutting knife To make a knife, take a 3mm stainless steel and sharpen it on an emery wheel. Weld a tube in the center, and a hexagon at the end of the tube so that the knife axis can be well clamped in the chuck. On the back of the knife, weld a piece of metal that will cut the way down for the knife. (See photo) 3) Lid Make a stainless steel or plywood lid with a hole in the middle. Make clips on the lid so that you can fix the lid on the bucket. Screw the centering sleeve made of friction plastic to the cover with 4 self-tapping screws. Coat the cover made of plywood with varnish. 4) Foot platform Screw the foot platform to the bottom of the bucket so that the bucket does not scroll while chopping apples. The platform can be made of stainless steel or 10 mm plywood. Lacquer the plywood. 5) Use only a powerful quality drill, or a rotary hammer in drilling mode. To simplify the manufacture of a crusher for apples and grapes, you can buy such a crusher as a whole assembly in our online store or order from us the most difficult parts to manufacture and search for materials (for example, a knife and a bushing). It is very convenient to do this when buying a press, since everything will fit in one box and you will not need to overpay for the delivery of 2 goods. As a result, you will get a ready-made kit for squeezing juice. It remains only to assemble the chopper with your own hands. Do-it-yourself electric grinder (crusher) for apples and fruits for juice (1st option) 1) Crushing cylinder Turn a wooden cylinder with a diameter of about 160 mm and a height of 160-180 mm. Large diameter the cylinder is necessary so that the apples do not have to be pressed and pushed during the chopping process. The cylinder itself will capture them. Turn through in the middle through hole and glue the shaft (stainless steel circle 10-12mm). Screw stainless self-tapping screws into the cylinder in a checkerboard pattern so that the heads of the self-tapping screws protrude by 7-8 mm. The cylinder can also be made from stainless pipe. Slide the bearings onto the shaft ends and screw them onto the housing. Connect the shaft to the electric motor through pulleys and a belt drive. 2) Electric motor - Engine power 0.55 kW - Speed 1400-1500 rpm - To be able to plug it into a regular outlet, it is better to take a single-phase motor. When working with a grinder, be sure to use electrical network with grounding! 3) Body The body of the chopper is made of wood or stainless steel in such a way that the container for falling asleep apples gradually narrows towards the chopping cylinder. Do-it-yourself electric chopper (crusher) for apples, fruits (2nd option) 1) Cutting disc Make cutting disc stainless steel 1mm thick. To do this, cut out a circle and drill alternating holes in it with a diameter of 8mm. Of course, it is best to cut such a disk with laser cutting. Then "knock out" the holes and sharpen with a file or cutter for metal. Screw on the other side of the disk 2 blades that will push the chopped apples out. 2) Casing Weld the stainless steel casing in such a way that when crushed, the apples fly out well and the juice does not get on the motor. To do this, you can use the gland or the principle of "inverted glass". 3) Engine - Engine power 0.18-1.3 kW, depending on the required performance - Speed 1400-1500 rpm, - To be able to plug it into a regular outlet, it is better to take a single-phase motor. When working with a grinder, be sure to use an electrical network with grounding!!! 4) Engine support 5) Weld the engine support or make legs so that the shredder is stable when working, and a bucket for crushed raw materials can be placed at the outlet. Making an electric chopper for apples and grapes with your own hands is a rather laborious process, you also need to comply with all electrical safety requirements. Therefore, it is easier to buy a ready-made apple chopper right away. We are manufacturers of juice extraction equipment and in our online store you can buy both a compact electric grinder for own dacha, as well as a fruit grinder for a small line for the production of natural juices of direct extraction. If you still decide to make an electric chopper with your own hands, then we can offer you to buy a ready-made cutting disc, bushing, chopper body or other spare parts from us. Thus, you will greatly simplify your task of manufacturing and save time. Do-it-yourself apple and grape crusher drawings, as well as do-it-yourself apple and grape chopper drawings are the intellectual property of Apple Press Ltd., therefore, this article describes only the basic manufacturing principles. Read more on our website.
Grinding equipment for suburban area has a wide variety of uses. With it, you can grind coarse herbal food, break fruit into juice, create combined mixtures for and animals.
Often such mechanisms are quite expensive. But, there is always an option.
1 Types of crushers for a farm site
Before you do this or that, you should clearly define the type of raw material that it will process. Raw material has a different structure and degree of rigidity, respectively, and grinding equipment will differ in a number of features.
Branch shredder - an indispensable utilizer of plant waste
According to this criterion, there are:
- apple press;
- grape crusher;
- bone crusher;
- universal chopper (for example for).
Of course, this is not the whole list. options. But listed machinery can process most of the agricultural products, and very easy to make.
1.1 How to make a grass chopper with your own hands?
The electric device for processing hay and grass crops does not require special skills. For its manufacture, there are enough improvised materials. The mechanism consists of a hopper for raw materials, a grinding drum with several knives, a crushing mechanism, a special sieve, an outlet channel and an electric drive.
The whole manufacturing process looks like this:
- First of all, you need to take care of the electric drive. An engine with a power of 800 W or more is suitable as a power plant. More powerful models will give a smaller degree of grinding.
- The second point is the manufacture of the drum. For the walls of the grinding chamber and its base, metal with a thickness of 4 mm is suitable. The height of the drum must be at least 10 cm, the width must be at least 30. A hole is cut in the bottom of the grinder for connection with the drive.
- Next comes the base with a pallet and a hopper for raw materials. They can be made from tin or from a galvanized metal barrel.
- As a cutting element, metal plates (2 or more) are used, which are connected to the drive disk by means of long bolts and sealing washers. If the length of the bolts allows, you can make two levels of knives, which will improve the crushing.
- A do-it-yourself homemade hay crusher ends with an outlet pipe. It is best for him to use polymer pipes from water supply or sewerage. They do not corrode and fit in diameter.
Before actively using the device, it must be carefully examined, then all bolt fasteners are tightened and welding joints are checked. Only after this is the first launch carried out. Large straw is suitable as a test raw material.
2 How to make an apple crusher yourself?
A do-it-yourself apple crusher will make it easy to process fruits to a homogeneous raw material, from which it is easier to get juice later, or use it to create combined feeds. All apple choppers are based on a roller crushing mechanism.
As a working body for such a device, a steel cylinder with a length of 40 cm and 20 cm in cross section is suitable. Along the entire length, diagonally, stainless steel screws or self-tapping screws are screwed in. In this case, it is better to wind symmetrically in both directions of the cylinder.
The working body is installed on a flat polished board, or on an inclined drain made of tin. It is better not to take galvanized tin, as it can interact with apple juice. The cylindrical press is mounted on the shaft with the help of bearings. As a drive for such a device engine is used washing machine. Its power is quite enough for fruit processing. The shaft is connected to the engine by means of an automobile belt mechanism.
If apples will be used in the food industry in the future, a homemade crusher can be made from environmentally friendly wood materials.
In this case, a working cylindrical organ made of beech or aspen will be used. It is mounted with bearings on a rectangular frame. Screws are screwed into the drum, as in the previous version.
A special bunker is installed on top of the cylinder. Its peculiarity lies in the fact that three vertical walls located perpendicular to the surface, and one stands at an angle. This ensures an easy descent of apples under the crushing drum.
The axis of the toothed drum shaft is brought out, where the handle is attached to it. Such a crusher can be made from a grinder. In this made mechanism will process the raw materials automatically. The withdrawn axis is attached to the grinder drive. High speed of the device will evenly spin the shaft, which will ensure continuous work. A container for receiving processed products is installed below the device.
2.1 How is a do-it-yourself grape crusher made?
Making a grape crusher yourself is not so difficult. There are homemade grape crushers with a jaw mechanism, or using a hammer as a working body. In more difficult variant roller crushing is used.
As a working body here rubber rollers will be used to wring clothes from washing machines like "Tavria" or "Riga". You can buy them at almost any flea market or on the Internet. Six guide lines are drawn along each roller. Holes with a cross section of 1 cm and 0.5 cm in depth are made along the entire length of the lines with an interval of 0.5 mm.
The next moment is the most difficult - it is necessary to make two gears for the diameter of the rollers. It is better to entrust this process to an experienced turner.
Next is a bunker for the device. It is made of two wooden and two tin plates, in which the bottom is narrowed. wooden plates installed at an angle, and tin vertically. Two holes are drilled in tin plates at the base, and plates with a welded tube are bolted. The diameter of the tube allows the bearing to be pressed into it (preferably 202). On the one hand, a roller is attached to the bearing, on the other, a gear is put on.
At the end of the installation, the rollers in the base of the hopper should be located with a clearance of 3 mm. As a basis, we take any wide surface(wooden is the easiest to use) and cut a hole under the lower perimeter of the bunker. As a drive, the engine from the washing machine is used. Belt traction is better to take from there. The belt is put on with one side on the engine wheel, and the other on one output of the shaft axis. In this design, the gears will spin in different sides and independently tighten the berries.
This type of grape crusher does not handle waste as well as the destemming roller grape crusher, but has a simpler design.
2.2 Bone crusher and universal grinder
A useful addition to the house will be a garden one, which is suitable for wood chips, bones, solid waste. The device includes the following components:
- power frame;
- working body from saws;
- protective cover;
- bunker for raw materials;
- electric motor.
As a power unit, a gasoline or Electrical engine. For rough materials, you can use the walk-behind tractor drive. The next step is to create a cutting body. To make it, you will need 10-15 circular saws with a diameter of at least 6 cm.
All saw blades are assembled together on an axle whose diameter depends on the saw hole. A plastic washer is installed between each pair of saws (can be cut from any polymer plate). Such a gasket will prevent the saws from sticking together during operation. On the sides, the cutting body is reinforced with washers or welded. A pulley is attached to the axle. And in general, the cutting body is ready.
The power frame is welded from 4 corners. An axle with saws is attached to one edge. For this purpose, bearings are used, mounted in clamps, which are attached to the frame by welding or bolts. A casing is installed on top of the cutting unit. It is made from sheet steel. Three walls are located in a vertical position, and the fourth has a slight slope towards the base of the frame. A hopper is put on top of the casing, which is also made of sheet or galvanized steel. The hopper is attached to the casing with bolts for ease of maintenance.
Next, the engine is fixed on the frame. A belt drive disk is put on the pulley and attached to the engine disk. For convenience, the system can be equipped with a control system or tumbler. Thus, you get your own. Suitable for, beets, bones, food waste.
A homemade apple chopper is necessary for those who have a large apple orchard and want to prepare a lot of healthy and tasty juice for the winter without much hassle. It is not so difficult to make a device, and the power and functionality is in no way inferior to store-bought counterparts.
A homemade device will save not only money, but also time.
A finely chopped apple is much easier to crush, and it gives many times more juice. One of the main advantages of the device is the possibility of obtaining a homogeneous apple mass.
In addition, the device has the following advantages:
- Allows processing in a short time a large number of fruit,
- Waste-free production: after processing, only a little cake remains,
- The device minimizes the physical work of a person,
- Practicality and reliability
- You can process absolutely any number of apples.
Homemade device to general list adds benefits such as:
- Minimum manufacturing costs
- Ease of repair and replacement of defective parts.
Making an apple chopper
metal
A do-it-yourself apple crusher is made from materials that are in almost every household, and not so many tools are needed for work.
It is better to start manufacturing by studying the drawings, they can be easily found on specialized forums.
The drawings will help to get an idea about the fastening of parts, dimensions, features of the device. Usually the crusher is made of wood, metal or metal, but with wooden parts.
The first step is to take a sheet of metal from which to lathe steps are made for the subsequent mounting of bearings and a steel shaft. Via milling machine eight faces are removed from the shaft, and then small notches are made in the shape of a triangle on the entire surface of the shaft with a grinder.
The body is most often made from the frame of a vertical washing machine, with a wall thickness of at least two millimeters. The lower part of the sides must be slightly bent so that a small gap remains between the walls and the installed working shaft. For better fastening shaft and its free rotation, it is better to use a bearing torque mechanism, which is available in any circular machine.
The next step is welding from corners or metal profile solid frame, and the manufacture of base boards. It is necessary in order to be able to conveniently put buckets for the finished apple mass. When the frame is ready, proceed to assemble the control panel. It consists of a toggle switch to start and stop work. A handle and several rollers are attached to the frame from below - this will make it easy to move the device. To upper corners the frame is bolted to the frame. If you use the frame of the device without a support frame, then under the pressure of the apples, the bottom and walls of the case will begin to deform. The engine is attached to the body from the side, and covered with a reliable casing.
As an engine, you can use a motor from a washing machine or vacuum cleaner.
from wood
A wooden model is easier to assemble than a metal one.
An important point - the tree must have water-repellent properties. The bunker for loading apples is made of three horizontal and one inclined walls. This design will make it easier to fill apples into the device. The main working element of a wooden crusher is a shaft, which can be made of very durable wood or metal. Screws are screwed into the shaft - the caps will play the role of working teeth, which chop the apples. To increase productivity, the screws are arranged in a spiral.
The working chamber is also made of durable boards. The size of the chamber is selected individually based on the planned number of apples for processing. For greater convenience, the working chamber is installed on a special stand with legs. On one side of the working chamber, a hole is cut out for the exit of the finished apple mass, under which a container is installed.
You can put the shaft into operation using conventional drill without drill. The axis of rotation is brought out of the working chamber and the tip of the drill is mounted on it. Such a device will allow the shaft to rotate at high speed, which will ensure good performance. The crusher is ready!
