Abstract: A safety device for a food processor having a bowl closed by a cover and fed through a chute for introducing products into the working bowl, has a control switch responsive to the position of a pusher guide carrying a pusher. The pusher is slidably mounted for translation in the pusher-guide. The pusher-guide is pivotally mounted to cover over the open end of the chute, and a set of rods connect the pusher-guide to the switch operating safety rod extending along the bowl. The device prevents access of the user's hand to the cutting area, even for a large chute, by blocking the chute when the motor is enabled.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A portable electrical appliance or hand-held blender for processing food. According to the invention, the appliance comprises a case having a handle, the case including an electric motor rotating a first end of a shaft included in a fixed tube, a tool being secured to the shaft, and wherein a removable endpiece secured to the tool is mounted on the second end of the tube. The blender is applicable particularly to catering.

Abstract: Electrical apparatus for thermal processing of food includes a casing which has a transparent portion for viewing the food disposed within the casing. At least one heating element is mounted within the casing for heating the food, the heating element including a heat resistant and mechanically rigid transparent first substrate having a first surface which faces the food and a second opposite facing surface. At least one electrical resistance element is disposed on the second surface, the at least one electrical resistance element being connected to a source of electrical current. At least one second transparent substrate is disposed adjacent the second surface, the at least one second transparent substrate including a transparent infrared reflective coating. Thus, the food disposed within the casing is viewable from the exterior of the casing through at least the first substrate while the food is being heated by the first substrate.

Abstract: A food dispenser gun, comprising a tube holding a quantity of an extrudable food product, a piston sealingly engaged with an interior of the tube, a rod coupled to the piston and an incremental dispenser engaged with the rod and the tube, the incremental dispenser comprising a trigger, or an advancement lever operable to move the rod in a first direction relative to the incremental dispenser in response to the trigger and a retrograde lock operable to prevent the rod from moving in a second direction, wherein the advancement lever and the retrograde lock are completely enclosed by a housing of the incremental dispenser. Other systems, devices and methods are disclosed.

Abstract: An electric locking device includes at least one main switch with a make contact, one secondary magnetic flexible leaf switch with a break contact, at least one auxiliary relay including at least one make contact, and an external control member comprising at least one permanent magnet. The main switch directly controls the relay coil after the secondary switch has been opened by the presence of a magnet in the control member, and the secondary switch, when it closes again, shorts the relay coil. This occurs when the control member and the magnet moves away. The assembly may be constructed such that the approach of the control member, by the presence of the magnet, first causes the opening of the secondary switch, then the closing of the main switch. The control member, during its retraction, releases the main switch that opens before the secondary switch closes.

Abstract: A device controls a switch by means of at least two buttons. The device has at least two buttons acting on levers, each having an end that can bear against the plunger of the switch. The device is particularly applicable to food processors.

Abstract: A device for locking a bowl on a motor support. According to the invention, a latch is hinged to the handle of the bowl and serves to penetrate through a slot into a channel that itself includes a locking surface. The invention is applicable to food processor appliances.

Abstract: The invention provides a safety switch device which is particularly adapted to increase the reliability a food processor. The switch has a piston which is slidably mounted inside a bore formed in a tapering projection in the base of the food processor so as to protect electrical circuitry inside the food processor from ingress of liquid or powder substances. The piston is spring biased and when depressed touches a contact device which is wired between an electrical power source and the food processor motor such that depression of the piston allows operation of the food processor motor. In operation the piston is depressed by a push-rod only when the bowl and the lid are properly installed on the food processor base. The piston is fitted with O-ring which resiliently seals between the piston and the bore. The piston is also formed with a skirt which surrounds and overlies a support for the contact device so that any liquid or powder substances which seep by the O-ring are directed away from the contact device.

Abstract: A food processor has a base and a bowl. The base is arranged to couple with the bowl such that the bowl is held from moving in vertical translation by lugs fixed on the base co-operating with corresponding parts of the bowl. The bowl and base are formed with a cooperating abutment and abutment surface, respectively, which are alignable to abut and prevent the bowl from rotating relative the base.

Abstract: An apparatus for extracting juice and pulp from vegetables and fruits is provided having a base containing an electric motor, and a bowl removably attached to the base. The motor has a drive shaft which projects into the interior of the bowl for receiving process tools. The bowl is provided with a strainer which is equipped with a skirt which fits inside the central tube surrounding the drive shaft. The driving shaft has a spindle fitted thereon in two orientations, one in which the strainer remains static during operation and one in which the strainer is driven rotationally when the driving shaft is turning.

Abstract: An auxiliary working bowl for a food processor is mounted without a lid between the top of the sleeve (4) in the main bowl (1) and beneath the lid (2), with a tool (8) fixed to the drive shaft (5) rotating inside the auxiliary bowl (7).

Abstract: A hopper for inserting foodstuffs into a food processor apparatus comprising a base which includes an electric motor whose shaft projects through the surface of the base, a bowl (2) removably mounted on said base, and a cover (1) capable of being locked onto the bowl (2), the cover having an opening surrounded by a chute (3), and a pusher (8) capable of being inserted into the chute (3) in order to press against food, the hopper being characterized in that a pusher support (5) is pivotally mounted at the top of the chute (3), said support slidably receiving a pusher rod (8) terminated by a blade (9) whose section is substantially equal to the inside section of the chute (3).

Abstract: A magnetic safety device, inter alia for a food processor, wherein, when a cover (10) is locked on a bowl (3), which in turn is locked to a base (1), a permanent magnet (12) is brought towards a magnetically controlled working contact (11) connected in series in the supply circuit of a motor (2).

Abstract: An assembly for use with a food processor and adapted to permit processing of large food items, the assembly including a tubular member mountable on the open end of the processor bowl and provided with an inwardly directed wall terminating in a boss.

Abstract: A screw-extruder for shaped food pastes such as spaghetti is removably mounted on a base containing a prime mover. To ensure the safety of the assembly an activator is associated with the cylinder housing the screw and can only actuate a switch in the base when the cylinder is correctly positioned. The actuator may take the form of a manually operable pushbutton on the cylinder, or a lever acted on by the cylinder and acting as a mechanical interlock with a pushbutton and permitting its operation only when predetermined conditions are satisfied. In each case the pushbutton will only act to permit operation of the motor when it is properly positioned relative to a switch in the base.

Abstract: A kitchen apparatus for treating food wherein the rotary tools of the apparatus are stored in the casing which houses the motor of the apparatus and wherein the tools comprise flat disks and are connectable to the shaft of the motor via a carrier.

Abstract: A citrus fruit juicing attachment for an electrically-driven kitchen robot is described. The attachment of the invention comprises an extension piece for fitting on the motor drive shaft, a basket for mounting on the upper bowl of the kitchen robot which is provided at its edge with a projection adapted to operate a motor control switch and at least one cone which can be driven by the extension piece. The cone can only be mounted in the basket when the extension piece is not engaged therein. The need to remove basket and cone when changing cones, thus disenabling the machine, leads to an increase in safety.