# US 10,478,013 B2 · Cooking appliance comprising a lid equipped with a tube for adding food > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,478,013 B2 - Document ID: US10478013B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/086,165 - Filed: 2016-03-31 - Published: 2016-10-06 - Granted: 2019-11-19 - Earliest claimed: 2015-04-01 - Assignees: Seb S.A. - Applicants: Seb S.A. - Inventors: Jean-Louis Deshayes; Jean-Yves Beaudet - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10478013B2 ## CPC - A47J 36/10: Lid-locking devices - A47J 27/004: {with integral electrical heating means (drinking cups with integral heating means A47J36/2466)} - A47J 43/046: with tools driven from the bottom side - A47J 43/0716: {for machines with tools driven from the lower side (A47J43/0727 - A47J43/08 take precedence)} - A47J 43/0772: {activated by the proper positioning of the cover} - B26D 1/29: with cutting member mounted in the plane of a rotating disc, e.g. for slicing beans - A47J: KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES - B26D: CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING (for growing crops or plants A01D, A01G; for fodder or straw A01F; for bulk butter A01J; for dough A21C; slaughtering A22B; for tobacco, cigars or cigarettes A24; marking-out, perforating or making buttonholes A41H25/00; manufacturing footwear A43D; brushmaking A46D; surgery A61B; disintegrating, mincing or shredding in general B02C; cutting wire, making pins or nails B21F, B21G; of the kind used formetal B23; cutting by abrasive fluid jets B24C5/02; hand-held cutting tools B26B; perforating, cutting-out, stamping-out or punching, or severing by means other than cutting B26F; for wood B27; for stone B28D; working of plastics or substances in a plastic state B29; making boxes, cartons, envelopes or bags, of paper or similarly worked materials, e.g. metal foil, B31B; article or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices B65H35/00; for leather or upholstery B68, C14B; for glass C03B; making matches C06F; for peat C10F; for sugar C13B45/00; for textile materials D06H; civil engineering, building, mining, see Section E; for light guides G02B6/25; cutting processed photographic material G03D15/04) ## Abstract Cooking appliance including a lid that closes, in a removable manner, a working container receiving a tool spun by a motor, the lid having a body equipped with a tube for adding food, arranged in an off-center manner on the lid, wherein the lid includes a locking ring that can move by spinning on said body, and the locking ring can be in a closed position in which locking components hold the lid in a closed position on the working container, and in an open position in which the lid can be lifted off of the working container. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A Cooking appliance comprising a lid that closes, in a removable manner, a working container receiving a tool spun by a motor, the lid having a body equipped with a tube for adding food, the tube arranged in an off-center manner on the lid, the lid comprising a locking ring that can move by spinning on said body, and the locking ring can be in a closed position in which the locking ring holds the lid in a closed position on the working container, or an open position in which the lid can be lifted off of the working container, wherein the appliance comprises a drive hub with a lower end that mates, in a removable manner, with a driver arranged in the bottom of the working container and an upper end supporting a vegetable slicing disc, the body of the lid comprising a waste-prevention ring that comes to an edge of the vegetable slicing disc when the lid is in the closed position, wherein the waste prevention ring rises from a lower surface of a bottom wall of the lid and has a smaller diameter than a diameter of an interior skirt extending beneath an upper surface of the lid, and wherein the interior skirt comprises a peripheral groove receiving an airtight gasket with a lip that comes to rest on one upper edge of the working container when the lid closes the working container. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The Cooking appliance described in claim 1, wherein the airtight gasket presses against the working container when the lid is in the closed position. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The Cooking appliance described in claim 1, wherein the tube rises from a bottom of a cavity arranged on the upper surface of the lid. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The Cooking appliance described in claim 3, wherein the cavity has openings leading to the lower surface of the bottom wall of the lid. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The Cooking appliance described in claim 1, further comprising a heating mechanism that can heat contents the working container. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The Cooking appliance described in claim 1, wherein the lid has two handles arranged symmetrically on the locking ring. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The Cooking appliance described in claim 6, wherein the two handles protrude radially from an edge of the lid. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The Cooking appliance described in claim 1, wherein the body of the lid comprises an annular radial rib that is sandwiched between one annular edge of the locking ring and attachment flanges attached to the locking ring. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The Cooking appliance described in claim 1, wherein the locking ring comprises locking components, the locking components consisting of tabs carried by the locking ring, creating a bayonet-type connection with the working container. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The Cooking appliance described in claim 1, wherein the lid comprises a mechanism to prevent the body of the lid from rotating with respect to the locking ring in a direction in which the tool is spinning when the lid is locked on to the working container. ### Claim 11 (depends on 2) The Cooking appliance described in claim 2, wherein the airtight gasket is removable.