Stirring tool
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Kenwood
InventorsJamie Cox, Mark Seidler
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Abstract
A stirring tool for a kitchen appliance such as a food processor has a curved, inclined blade to lift food material from the base of the food processor bowl and turns it over. The tool comprises a shaft adapted to be driven in rotation by a drive outlet of the kitchen appliance, and a blade extending outwardly of the shaft at or adjacent a base thereof, the blade being shaped so as to lift food from a leading edge to a trailing edge thereof upon rotation of the blade, and the leading edge being shaped so as to urge food inwardly towards the shaft.
Claims9
A stirring tool for stirring food in a bowl of a kitchen appliance, the tool comprising:
- a shaft adapted to be driven in rotation by a drive outlet of the kitchen appliance about a drive axis of the shaft;
- a blade extending outwardly of the shaft at or adjacent a base thereof, the blade being shaped along a blade length thereof so as to lift food from a leading edge to a trailing edge thereof upon rotation of the blade, and the leading edge being shaped along a leading edge length thereof so as to urge food inwardly towards the shaft, and
- wherein the blade terminates in a scraper having an axially extending end face which extends concentrically of the shaft, wherein the end face is arranged to be closely adjacent an inner peripheral surface of the bowl in use.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.