Elongated Edged Member Patents (Class 241/282.1)
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Publication number: 20030226923Abstract: A food processor for processing foodstuffs including a housing having a motor covering a base. The food processor further including a driveshaft, a bowl, a lid and a first tool. The driveshaft protrudes from the base and includes a first end proximate the base and a second end distal therefrom. The bowl is removably securable to the base. The lid is removably securable to the bowl creating a processing chamber between inner surfaces of the bowl and the lid. The first tool is rotatably securable to the driveshaft adjacent the first end in a first operating mode and is rotatably securable to the driveshaft adjacent the second end in a second operating mode. The food processor further includes a disk that is rotatably securable adjacent the second end creating a sub-processing chamber between the first surface and the inner surfaces in the second operating mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2002Publication date: December 11, 2003Applicant: Hamilton Beach/Proctor-Silex, Inc.Inventors: Dane Starr, Jeffery Thomas Mauch, Michael M. Pierce
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Patent number: 6634580Abstract: In a kitchen appliance (1) having firstly a container (3) and having secondly a cover (11) for the container (3) and having thirdly a tool drive means (10) which is accommodated in the container (3) and which is rotatably supported in the container (3) with the aid of bearing means (9, 21) which allow a pivotal movement, which tool drive means is passed through an opening (15) in the cover (11) and is disposed in the opening (15) so as to be clear of the cover (11) in order to allow a pivotal movement of the tool drive means (10), and having fourthly a drive arrangement (28) placed on the cover (11) coupled to the tool drive means (10) so as to be in driving engagement therewith, the tool drive means (10) is, in the fifth place, provided with a brake means (30), whose braking function is disabled when the drive arrangement (28) is coupled to the tool drive means (10) and which in response to a disengagement of the drive arrangement (28) from the tool drive means (10) performs its braking function as a resultType: GrantFiled: October 12, 2001Date of Patent: October 21, 2003Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventor: Heimo Obersteiner
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Patent number: 6616324Abstract: A food processing appliance such as a blender comprises a container (22) and a base (20) housing an electric motor for driving the tool support assembly (2) which comprises a generally conical support (15) which is open inside and flares out to a enlarge periphral edge part which is removably securable in said opening, the narrow end of the conical support bearing a food processing tool (24). The motor being housed in a compartment (60) in the base space up from the bottom, a storage compartment (70) for storing a tool support assembly (2) of the defined type when the assembly is nit in use, the storage compartment (70) having a recess for receiving therein a tool support assembly placed with its enlarge part down and with its narrow end up.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2002Date of Patent: September 9, 2003Assignee: Arno S.A.Inventors: Rinaldo Planca, José Carlos Veneziano
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Publication number: 20030066917Abstract: A food processor having a drive subassembly is disposed in the housing and coupled to a first and a second output shaft, each output shaft having with at least one coupling location for an attachment and, in addition, by the interposition of a gear mechanism, the output shafts being driven at different rotational speeds. The coupling of attachments requiring relatively small torques is simplified in that, spaced apart at a different level from its one coupling location, at least one of the two output shafts is provided with an additional coupling location for further attachments.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2002Publication date: April 10, 2003Inventors: Peter Brezovnik, Henrik Pavlovic, Jurij Pesec, Igor Zibret
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Patent number: 6532863Abstract: A food processor in the present invention includes a spindle, a blade holder, a positioning member, an elastic retaining member, a flexible member and a push member. Only to press down the push member, engagement hooks and guide blocks of the push member will slide downwards along slide grooves of the positioning member to compress the flexible member and lower an inclined plane of the push member to press against an inner wall surface of a clamp part of the elastic retaining member to force the clamp part to be stretched outwardly so as to release a projection of the spindle, thereby the blade holder can be easily disassembled and assembled for the convenience of completely cleaning residuary foodstuff out of the blade holder to keep the blade holder in a good sanitary condition ready for the next use so as to prolong the working life of the food processor.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2002Date of Patent: March 18, 2003Inventor: Ming-Tsung Lee
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Patent number: 6494392Abstract: The apparatus has a holder having inner grip elements disposed at a periphery of the holder. A bearing assembly is rotatably attached to the holder so that it is co-axial with a first axis. A driving source is rotatable engaging the bearing assembly. A wheel is eccentrically mounted on the bearing assembly and the wheel has outer grip elements that cooperate with the inner grip elements. The wheel is rotatable about a second axis that is not co-axial with the first axis. A first knife member is attached to the wheel and coaxial therewith and a second knife member is eccentrically mounted on the wheel so that the second knife member is rotatable about the first axis.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2000Date of Patent: December 17, 2002Inventor: Kent Vedefors
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Patent number: 6481342Abstract: A kitchen appliance (1) has a housing (3) having a first housing area (6) in which a first container (8) and a second housing area (7) in which a second container (17) can be placed onto the housing (3), which kitchen appliance (1) has an add-on unit (25) which can be accommodated in the second housing area (7) of the kitchen appliance (1) when the second container (17) is not in place.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2001Date of Patent: November 19, 2002Assignee: Koninklijke Phillips Electronics N.V.Inventor: Donald T. Thackray
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Patent number: 6474578Abstract: A safety push-button keypad for a food processor has a base with an electric motor and its command circuit operated by a push-button key pad. A removable container is mounted on the base and can be closed with a cover. The cover has a cam that comes to rest, when the cover is locked onto the container, on the end of a stem running into a housing extending along an axis relative to the container, which can be cylindrical. Above the stem and in its extension extends a piston on which is fixed a microswitch mounted running into the base, a related push button corresponding with a lever coming to bear, when the piston is down, on the contact of the microswitch.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2000Date of Patent: November 5, 2002Assignee: Robot CoupeInventors: Patrick Gonneaud, Jean-Pierre Lazzer
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Patent number: 6467948Abstract: A food processor having a container and a drive shaft extending through a bottom thereof includes a processing device having an impeller 20 for engaging the drive shaft and a dome-shaped cap or shield 90. The cap includes dimples on a lower surface to assist in breaking up lumps of food in the container. The processing device can rotate in either a clockwise or counterclockwise direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2000Date of Patent: October 22, 2002Assignee: Tilia International, Inc.Inventor: Anthony Charles Lawson
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Publication number: 20020139884Abstract: A cutter for use in a blender includes a central hub portion defining a horizontal plane. First and second pairs of blades extend outwardly from the hub portion. The first pair of blades is oriented on opposite sides of the hub portion and the blades lie in substantially the same horizontal plane as the hub portion. The second pair of blades is oriented on opposite sides of the hub portion and the blades extend upwardly from the horizontal plane of the hub portion, and further wherein the angles of upward extension of each of the second pair of blades is asymmetric. Further, each blade of the first set of blades has a cutting edge and trailing edge, and each blade of the first set of blades is pitched so that there is a downward slope from the cutting edge to the trailing edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2001Publication date: October 3, 2002Applicant: Hamilton Beach/Proctor-Silex. Inc.Inventors: Brian Williams, Brian Sullivan
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Patent number: 6446547Abstract: A food processor that is operable in a dough mixing mode and in at least one other mixing mode. When in the dough mixing mode, the mixing impeller is driven at a continuous speed in the range of about 1,400 to about 1,600 rpm and preferably form about 1,400 rpm to about 1,550 rpm. When in the other mixing mode, the impeller is driven at a speed in excess of 1,600 rpm. The impeller has a blade assembly with an upper blade and a lower blade that are offset vertically and sloped toward one another to thereby slice a relatively wide swath of the dough ball during mixing.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 1999Date of Patent: September 10, 2002Assignee: Conair CorporationInventors: Robert Kubicko, Theodore B. Mulle, Asik Braginsky
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Publication number: 20020096585Abstract: In a kitchen appliance (1) having a housing (3) and having a pot-shaped processing container (13) which can be placed onto a housing wall (9) of the housing (3) a pot-shaped storage container (28) has been provided for the storage of processing tools (39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48) of the kitchen appliance (1), which storage container is of such a design that it can store the processing tools and can be placed into the processing container (13) together with the stored processing tools.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2001Publication date: July 25, 2002Inventor: Johann Unteregger
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Patent number: 6418837Abstract: A kitchen appliance (1) having a container (10) and having a first cover configuration (21) for closing the container (12) advantageously also includes a second cover configuration (25) which can be placed onto the first cover configuration (21), as a result of which a hollow space (29) is formed with the aid of the two cover configurations (21, 25), which hollow space serves to and is adapted to accommodate accessories (31, 32) of the kitchen appliance (1).Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2001Date of Patent: July 16, 2002Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventor: Heimo Obersteiner
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Publication number: 20020047060Abstract: In a kitchen appliance (1) having a rotationally drivable drive section (15) and having a cutting device (16) supported on the drive section (15) the cutting device (16) consists of a holder (32) and a disc (17) which is axially movable with respect to the holder (17) and locked in rotation to the holder (32), and of an actuating knob (56) which is rotatable in tangential directions with respect to the holder (32) and the disc (17) and which is coupled to the disc (17), with the aid of which knob the disc (17) is axially movable, the coupling means (50, 60) being detachable from one another and the actuating knob (56) and the disc (32) being detachable from one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2001Publication date: April 25, 2002Inventor: Jan Juriga
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Patent number: 6375102Abstract: An appliance includes a housing (1) containing a motor (2) whose output shaft (8) passes through the housing base (4) and drives in rotation a tool (16) housed in a bowl (9) locked on the housing and closed by a lid (12); and a safety device (25) having a vertical thruster (27) mounted sliding in the bowl (9) peripheral wall (30) and actuated by a cam (43) borne by the lid (12) so as to penetrate in an opening (39) provided in the base to be urged to actuate a switch controlling the motor. A rigid cover (49) is mounted on the base movable between an inoperative position wherein it conceals the base opening (39), when the bowl is not on the base (4), and an operative position wherein it clears the opening (39) by the action of an actuating member (51) borne by the bowl (9) when the latter is locked on the base (4).Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2000Date of Patent: April 23, 2002Assignee: Moulinex S.A.Inventors: Jean-Paul Bouleau, Joel Deschamps
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Patent number: 6364226Abstract: There is provided a food processor having a motor, an impeller rotatably driven by the motor, a controller for rotating the motor in a first direction or a second direction, and a switch for controlling the controller to change the direction of the rotation of the motor.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2000Date of Patent: April 2, 2002Assignee: Conair CorporationInventor: Robert Kubicko
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Patent number: 6340125Abstract: An apparatus for breaking chips into fragments, including an outer structure which is fixedly provided such that a center line of the outer structure is parallel to a reference direction having a vertical component, an inner structure which is provided inside the outer structure such that the inner structure is concentric with the outer structure, a rotary drive device which rotates, in a rotating direction, the inner structure about the center line, and the inner structure including a central portion which is concentric with the outer structure, and a plurality of blades which extend radially outwardly from an outer circumferential surface of the central portion and each of which is inclined relative to the rotating direction such that a lower surface of the each blade can be seen as viewed from a downstream side of the each blade in the rotating direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 1999Date of Patent: January 22, 2002Assignees: Fuji Machine Mfg. Co., Ltd., Techno21Group CorporationInventors: Shintaro Murata, Tatsuyuki Honda, Toshihiro Kondo, Teruki Kamimura
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Patent number: 6340124Abstract: Electrical household appliance for culinary preparation, of the food processor type having a body forming a base to receive a working receptacle in which can be disposed a rotatable working element driven by a motor disposed in the body, a lid to close the working receptacle, and a mechanism for locking the lid on the working receptacle. The mechanism has jaws movably mounted on the body between a locking position in which they engage the lid to block it vertically and an unlocking position in which the lid can be withdrawn, these jaws being movable against at least one restoring member toward one of the two positions. The appliance further has an unlocking mechanism movably mounted on the body between a rest position in which the jaws are able to lock the lid on the receptacle, and an active position in which the jaws are brought into their unlocking position.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2000Date of Patent: January 22, 2002Assignee: SEB S.A.Inventors: Patrick Charles, Robert Smit, Jean-Luc Bordes, Pierre Bineau, Philippe Gaudez, Manuel Jurado
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Patent number: 6302014Abstract: A rotary food processor comprises an upper lid, a rotary part, and a cutter part. As soon as the locking device in the cutter part is discharged and the turning knob assembly is rotated to make a selected flat surface or the cutters on any one of cutting surfaces on a tool carrier post pass through guide grooves and displace to an axial groove, a lock device is located in place and a treated food is placed between a press disk and a bottom plate in the cutter part to be moved on the bottom plate by the press disk while a handle knob is turned. When the treated food passes through said cutters, the treated food is cut a thrust with a depth and a width and then cut off by the cutters such that finished products with a desired width can fall down through an output slot on the bottom plate.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2001Date of Patent: October 16, 2001Inventor: Huo Feng Hsia Kuan
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Patent number: 6299085Abstract: A cutting device for food processors wherein the processor is a cutting machine for cutting or chopping raw foodstuffs. The machine includes a container. A cutting device that includes a central sleeve-like part is non-rotatably fitted to a driven shaft and carries a cutting tool at its lower end, the cutting tool including knives that extend radially outwards from the sleeve. The cutting device includes a first pair of knives with respective knives extending radially from opposite sides of the central part close to the bottom of the central part. At least one second knife projects radially outwards from the central part higher up from the bottom of the central part than the first pair of knives. The second knife has a shorter bade than the knives of the first pair.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2001Date of Patent: October 9, 2001Assignee: AB Hällde MaskinerInventor: Ulf Ekström
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Patent number: 6298776Abstract: A turning device for food processors that include a rotatable cutter to cut foodstuffs to be processed. A stationary container is fitted with a lid, and a tubular member extends upwardly from the container bottom through which a driven shaft extends. The cutter is mounted on the shaft and includes a sleeve-like central part and radially-outwardly-extending cutting knives. The turning device includes at least a pair of strips that extend axially from a tubular holder that is adapted to fit over the central part of the cutter. In use, the turning device is disposed over the central part of the cutter with the holder positioned above the strips. The turning device extends longitudinally relative to the cutter to cover essentially the whole of the central part of the cutter above the position of the cutting knives, and it is stationary relative to the container during operation of the food processor.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2001Date of Patent: October 9, 2001Assignee: AB Hällde MaskinerInventor: Ulf Ekström
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Publication number: 20010022139Abstract: A food processor that is operable in a dough mixing mode and in at least one other mixing mode. When in the dough mixing mode, the mixing impeller is driven at a continuous speed in the range of about 1,400 to about 1,600 rpm and preferably form about 1,400 rpm to about 1,550 rpm. When i8n the other mixing mode, the impeller is driven at a speed in excess of 1,600 rpm. The impeller has a blade assembly with an upper blade and a lower blade that are offset vertically and sloped toward one another to thereby slice a relatively wide swath of the dough ball during mixing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 1999Publication date: September 20, 2001Inventors: ROBERT KUBICKO, THEODORE B. MULLE, ASIK BRAGINSKY
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Publication number: 20010008258Abstract: The invention is directed to a device for chopping food, in particular ice cubes, which includes a container body (2) subdivided into an upper processing zone (20) and a lower collecting zone (21). The rotary chopping tool (3) received in the processing zone (20) serves to comminute the food materials. A sieve (4; 25; 26) is provided in the transition region from the processing zone (20) to the collecting zone (21). The device of the invention has the advantage of enabling both foodstuffs and ice cubes to be reduced to defined sizes readily. In addition, ice cubes may be reduced without major amounts of energy being absorbed by the chopping tool (3) and without the reduced parts beginning to melt.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2000Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventors: Antonio Robordosa, Mariano Penaranda, Juan Carlos Coronado, Jose Luis Roman
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Patent number: 6254019Abstract: The invention is a food processor with a blade that moves up and down while rotating, for improved comminuting action. An additional, more general field of this invention is in the area of transmission mechanisms, specifically a mechanism that adds up-and-down motion to rotational motion. The mechanism includes a lifting element which is coupled to the drive shaft and which is also free to move up and down along the shaft. The blade is attached to the lifting element. A cylinder is fixed to the main body of the processor. A thread forms a continuous loop inside the cylinder, beginning at the bottom of the cylinder, extending in a spiral fashion to the top of the cylinder, and returning in a reverse spiral fashion to the bottom of the cylinder. The lifting element fits inside the cylinder, and has a post and a member located thereon. The post and member on the lifting element fit into the thread on the cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 1998Date of Patent: July 3, 2001Inventor: John Alexander Galbreath
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Patent number: 6213008Abstract: A multi-functional food processor comprises a processing rack, a elevated device and/or a rotary device. An appropriate tool stand is selected to fixedly attach an end of the processor rack. Then, adjust the turning knob in the elevated device such that the wedge on the push lever displaces to actuate the wedge together with the base plate displacing vertically for changing the difference of elevation between the base plate and the cutter. When a treated food touches the cutter, the slice product with desired thickness or the powder product with desired grains can be cut or ground properly. For the treated food being cut into shreds, repeat procedures of selecting the tool stand and adjust the elevated device to obtain a desired difference of elevation between the base plate and the cutter.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2000Date of Patent: April 10, 2001Inventor: Huo Feng Hsia Kuan
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Patent number: 6193181Abstract: Electrical household appliance for culinary preparation of the multi-function food processor type composed of a container (1) with a bottom (16) and an opposed opening (19), as well as a rotatable working assembly (2) driven by a motor connected to the working assembly by a driving shaft (4) and on which is mounted a working implement (5) disposed substantially in proximity to the bottom of the container, the implement defining a working zone (3). The container (1) has at least one rib (6) extending along a wall (15) of the container in the working zone (3), the rotatable working assembly (2) is removable with respect to the container (1), and the rotatable working assembly (2) includes a pedestal (7) movable in rotation around the axis A-A′ of the working assembly (2), which comes to bear on a relief (8) formed on the bottom of the container (1).Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1999Date of Patent: February 27, 2001Assignee: SEB S.A.Inventors: Jean-Paul Astegno, Carole L. Tompa
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Patent number: 6189441Abstract: A kitchen robot comprises a housing (2) containing a motor unit (4) whose output shaft (6) vertically projects from the housing and with an upper face (10) for receiving a first removable accessory (22) comprising a bowl (33) housing a rotating implement (36) integral with a vertical shaft (38) coaxially coupled with the motor shaft (6). The housing has a base (12) run through by a driving shaft (14) connected to the motor shaft (6) by a belt hoisting mechanism (16) designed for receiving a second removable accessory (24). The bowl (33) is mounted movable on a base plate (50) run through by the motor shaft (6) and which, before the bowl is fixed, is mounted flatly adjustable on the housing (2) so as to be coaxial with the motor shaft (6), and is fixed on the housing (2) after being adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1999Date of Patent: February 20, 2001Assignee: Moulinex S.A.Inventors: Jean-Yves Beaudet, Marc Marriere