Introducing our NEW! Modular Press
Apple and wine press technology has just not kept up with
advances in the needs of our modern day small orchard or vineyard owners. We
use the very latest in fertilizers and pest control but still rely on the old fashioned
hand cranked wooden cider / wine presses. The small orchard or vineyard owner
with a few trees or acres of vines, has little choice—he can spend as much as
$1000 or more to buy an antiquated wooden machine that he is obligated to
assemble, sandpaper and finish or take his crop to the cider mill where they
still use the old-fashioned and inefficient rack and cloth hydraulic presses.
The Apple and Wine Press Company, an engineering company, has developed a modern processing system that can fit the requirements of any orchard or vineyard.
Over the past two years many small orchard owners have bought and are using the Premium press system that we introduced two years ago. It is designed to process a bushel of apples or 40 pounds of grapes in less than 10 minutes. Now we have developed a new low cost system that meets the needs of even the smallest cider or wine processing requirement and costs less than the marginal antique wooden machine.
Common to the usage of all modules is a specially designed Press Base. It is a stand 16 inches square and 3 feet high, containing a pressing cylinder that holds a bushel of crushed apples or 40 pounds of grapes, and a Pressure Strainer. The press base is designed to accept the working attachments that perform the fruit cutting and cider pressing.
The Apple and Wine Press Company, an engineering company, has developed a modern processing system that can fit the requirements of any orchard or vineyard.
Over the past two years many small orchard owners have bought and are using the Premium press system that we introduced two years ago. It is designed to process a bushel of apples or 40 pounds of grapes in less than 10 minutes. Now we have developed a new low cost system that meets the needs of even the smallest cider or wine processing requirement and costs less than the marginal antique wooden machine.
Common to the usage of all modules is a specially designed Press Base. It is a stand 16 inches square and 3 feet high, containing a pressing cylinder that holds a bushel of crushed apples or 40 pounds of grapes, and a Pressure Strainer. The press base is designed to accept the working attachments that perform the fruit cutting and cider pressing.
Processing the fruit involves cutting/pulverizing the fruit, pressing the pulverized fruit pomace, harvesting the juice and, and collecting the dry fruit pulp.
These requirements are met in the modular system by providing individual components that mount on to the Press Base with a dead-bolt latching system to perform each of the required functions. There are two configurations of cutters/crushers and two configurations of presses. Each, when in use is mounted directly on top of the Press Base and is dead bolted in place.
These requirements are met in the modular system by providing individual components that mount on to the Press Base with a dead-bolt latching system to perform each of the required functions. There are two configurations of cutters/crushers and two configurations of presses. Each, when in use is mounted directly on top of the Press Base and is dead bolted in place.
In the simplest and least expensive configuration, the owner might choose to use the cutter crusher that may be driven with an electric drill or by hand crank. For the same reason that the old fashioned wooden hand cranked machines are next to impossible to use, our cutter crusher when hand cranked requires a great deal of energy for little reward and we discourage that method. Instead, the cutter crusher is set up to be driven by a variable speed hand held drill gun. A half inch drill gun is a necessity in any farming operation and undoubtedly is available for use with this machine. Having the variable speed allows the operator to custom grind his apples, depending upon the apple type, dryness of the year and many other concerns. A bushel of apples can be pulped in less than 2 minutes.
At this point the owner has two choices—he may choose to use a manual jack screw press, or he can use the more expensive but completely effortless pneumatic press. Should he choose the manual version, he removes the cutter crusher by unlatching the deadbolts and lifting the cutter/crusher off the Press Base-replacing it with the manual press. After latching it in place with the dead bolts he now can press the juice by cranking down on the piston. Juice is extruded by means of the Pressure Strainer at the bottom of the cylinder of the Press Base and collected in a pan below. There are no unsightly or bacteria laden pressing cloths.
Alternatively he may choose to use an automatic pneumatically driven press that when in use, is mounted on the top of the press base and latched with the dead bolts. The automatic press has the ability to control the speed of the piston and in the wine press also has the control of the pressure. In making wine each operator and each grape type has an optimum speed and pressure used in its processing. The air pressure supplied by his compressor that he normally uses to service his tractor and car tires is more than adequate and imposes more than 4000 (2.8 bar) pounds of force on the piston squeezing the juice through the Pressure Strainer below.
In either event, the juice is now extracted and may be taken away to be bottled leaving the now press-dry pulp. The Pressure Strainer is now removed from below the pressing cylinder leaving a clear path to push the dry material into a pan placed below. In the case of the pneumatic press, a stroke of the piston clears the cylinder.
In either event, the juice is now extracted and may be taken away to be bottled leaving the now press-dry pulp. The Pressure Strainer is now removed from below the pressing cylinder leaving a clear path to push the dry material into a pan placed below. In the case of the pneumatic press, a stroke of the piston clears the cylinder.
Another alternative for the owner who wishes to process even more fruit, a two speed, roller chain driven motor driven cutter crusher is offered (see figure 2). Again the Motor driven cutter crusher mounts on top of the Press Base and is latched in place with the dead bolt latches. After selecting the desired speed, the motor is switched on and a bushel of apples or 40 pounds of grapes are processed as fast as they can be fed into the chute. The cutter blades are well hidden behind the internal configuration of the chute feeding the fruit into the cutter but a safety y switch also ensures that if the chute is removed the motor will not start.
By providing an assortment of components extending from the very least expensive to the Premium Press allows the orchard or vineyard owner to select the configuration that best fits his needs.
Of course the fully automatic premium press is still available or $2500 The Press Base with manual/drill driven cutter/crusher–manual press combinations is priced slightly below the price of the wooden hand crank press. Why would anyone buy a press that he had to finish himself and may last a year or two when for the same price he can have a press made of steel with food safe surfaces that becomes a permanent machinery item in his orchard or vineyard operation? This combination is the equivalent functions of the wooden models for about the same price including the varnish and pressing cloths, but certainly not the labor required to assemble and finish them.
A Press Base with Manual/drill driven cutter and pneumatic press is priced slightly higher. The pneumatic cylinders cost more than a Jack screw. A Press Base with motor driven cutter and Pneumatic press is priced even a little more since the motor is a part of the machine where in the drill driven driver, the Drill gun is an item of ancillary equipment.
All the components can be bought separately and are priced accordingly.
Please call Apple and Wine Press Company 505 869-0233, or if you like please e-mail us at applesandwinepress@yahoo.com
By providing an assortment of components extending from the very least expensive to the Premium Press allows the orchard or vineyard owner to select the configuration that best fits his needs.
Of course the fully automatic premium press is still available or $2500 The Press Base with manual/drill driven cutter/crusher–manual press combinations is priced slightly below the price of the wooden hand crank press. Why would anyone buy a press that he had to finish himself and may last a year or two when for the same price he can have a press made of steel with food safe surfaces that becomes a permanent machinery item in his orchard or vineyard operation? This combination is the equivalent functions of the wooden models for about the same price including the varnish and pressing cloths, but certainly not the labor required to assemble and finish them.
A Press Base with Manual/drill driven cutter and pneumatic press is priced slightly higher. The pneumatic cylinders cost more than a Jack screw. A Press Base with motor driven cutter and Pneumatic press is priced even a little more since the motor is a part of the machine where in the drill driven driver, the Drill gun is an item of ancillary equipment.
All the components can be bought separately and are priced accordingly.
Please call Apple and Wine Press Company 505 869-0233, or if you like please e-mail us at applesandwinepress@yahoo.com
