Solid material comminution or disintegration – Apparatus – Rotating comminuting surface
Patent
1999-04-14
2000-07-04
Husar, John M.
Solid material comminution or disintegration
Apparatus
Rotating comminuting surface
2412822, 2412851, 2412852, B02C 1812, B02C 1818
Patent
active
060826487
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to an electric household appliance for processing food, of the type known as a kitchen robot, comprising a housing enclosing a motor group and having a region forming a base on which is removably mounted a bowl whose bottom is traversed by a drive shaft of the motor group, various rotatable working tools fulfilling different functions and mounted alternatively removably in the bowl by being coupled with said drive shaft, as well as a device permitting storing the tools when none is used.
In such an electric household appliance, the different specialized functions for food processing, such as chopping, mixing, grating, mincing or cutting fruits or vegetables, are accomplished by various suitable rotatable tools which are driven in rotation in the working bowl by the motor so as to carry out various processing operations selected by the user.
With such an electric household appliance for food processing which uses a multiplicity of tools of which only one is used for each operation, there is therefore the problem of storing the various tools when none of them is used, which is to say when the apparatus is not in service. To solve this problem, it has thus been proposed to design a storage box for the tools which can be entirely independent of the apparatus itself, or else can be laterally connected to the housing of the apparatus. In all these cases, such a box constitutes a supplemental piece which has the drawback of being particularly cumbersome.
The invention accordingly proposes, solving in a simple and effective manner this problem of storing tools when they are not used.
According to the invention, this object is achieved by an electric household appliance for food processing, of the type described above, which is characterized in that the storage device comprises a tool holding member which is removably mounted in the bowl.
Thus, it will be understood that when no tool is used, the fact of storing the tool carrying member within the interior itself of the bowl resting on the base of the housing of the apparatus, permits storing the various tools without encumbering the tool carrier. Moreover, the bowl of the apparatus preferably serves itself both as the working receptacle of the various tools for processing food when the apparatus is in service, and as the storage box for the tool carrier when the apparatus is not in service.
According to a preferred embodiment, the tool carrying member comprises a circular plate pierced with a plurality of recesses removably receiving various types of tools and whose upper surface is vertically surmounted in its center with a hollow standard of generally approximately cylindrical shape which opens from the lower surface of the plate and on which are removably mounted other types of tools, the assembly carrying the tools and formed by the plate and the standard being mounted in the bowl by engagement of the outlet of said standard about a central mounting extending vertically above the bottom of the bowl and adapted to receive the shaft of the motor group.
The characteristics and advantages of the invention will become further apparent from the description which follows, by way of non-limiting example, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of an electric household appliance for processing foodstuffs and comprising a chopping knife;
FIG. 2 is a perspective view, on an enlarged scale, of the chopping knife of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a disk adapted to support various types of tools;
FIG. 4 is an exploded schematic perspective view of a portion of the electric household appliance comprising a device for storing tools according to the invention;
FIG. 5 is a view similar to FIG. 1 showing schematically the storage device for the tools of FIG. 4;
FIG. 6 is a perspective view, on an enlarged scale, of a member of the storage device of FIG. 2, the tools not being in place;
FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view on the line VII--VII of FIG. 6, the tools being in place;
FIG. 8 is a
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Leverrier Bruno
Marriere Marc
Husar John M.
Moulinex (S.A.)
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