Automatic table-top machine for kneading and extruding pasta

An automatic table-top machine for kneading and extruding pasta, comprising a machine body, which includes electric gear motor means having an output shaft with horizontal axis, transmission means from said output shaft to a driven shaft with axis horizontal and parallel to the axis of said output shaft and coaxial to a shaft of a kneading reel, projecting externally to said machine body in a dough forming tank, having below and parallel to said shaft of the kneading reel an extrusion channel, in which there is arranged a worm screw coaxial with respect to said output shaft, which feeds in the manner of an auger extrusion means for forming pasta, wherein said machine body comprises:

• a load-bearing frame, including a sheet metal plate bent substantially to 90° and which provides, in a single body, a horizontal base, fixed with respect to a support member on said table, and a vertical wall, on the outer face of which said dough forming tank is fixed, and
• an inner reinforcement comprising:
• first plate support means, including a first vertical plate, which is fixed with respect to said horizontal base, parallel to and spaced from said vertical wall,
• second plate support means, including a second vertical plate, which is fixed to the inner face of said vertical wall, and
• bearing means for supporting and sustaining said output shaft and said driven shaft, supported with respect to said first plate and to said second plate, so that the stresses acting on said shafts are transmitted, through said reinforcement, to said load-bearing frame in an evenly distributed manner with respect to said horizontal base and to said vertical wall,
• wherein said inner reinforcement comprises a substantially bell-shaped support, axially perforated, having a peripheral outer flange at the larger base thereof, and fixed by means of said flange to the face of said first plate distal from said vertical wall, said substantially bell-shaped support being axially passed through by said output shaft and supporting said gear motor means in a cantilever fashion.