You should always get it off the bulk of the lees early after primary as this can cause unwanted flavors and offers no benefit. Small amounts of sediment settling out over time aren't as big of a concern.
With multiple rackings you need to be more concerned with oxidizing. If your not racking...
Grab yourself some pH test strips. Ideally you want to be in the pH 3.5 range but no higher than pH 3.8 if you can avoid it. The pH will rise during fermentation so anything above 3.8 will result in something that has the potential to spoil during aging. Assuming that you won't drink it all in a...
Any idea what apples were used? What the pH, TA, O.G. are?
If your O.G. is low and your pH high you'll have to make some decisions as to if you want to chaptilize and/or add any acid additions or you could end up with 275g of something nobody will want to drink.
http://www.stpats.com/Presses.htm
Not the same as what you asked for but these guys have a lot of different options.
The Vigo one is similar to a goodnature roadsider from a while back but I don't think you can get them any more and like you said a lot of whats out there is pretty...
I bought this for pressing cider with, here's the original amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008XA0BG2/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20
See the (crappy cell phone, sorry) pics of the actual unit attached.
I bought the item brand new last week. I've only used it once and It was great...