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US 11,786,077 B2Granted
Food processor and food processing method
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorsZhenzhen Cai, Tao Kong, Cong Tian, Jingwei Tan
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Abstract
A food processor combines steaming of food on a support, and blending. The support is rotated about the same shaft as the blender blade, to release the food on the support centrifugally so that it drops to the blender blade. This enables an automated process with optimized steaming and blending.
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A food processor, comprising:
- a vessel for receiving food to be steamed and blended;
- a steaming system for delivering steam to the vessel for steaming the food;
- a support for retaining the food above a base of the vessel during steaming;
- a blender blade at the base of the vessel;
- and
- a drive arrangement for rotating the blender blade and the support about a common axis, for rotating the support to release the retained food and for rotating the blender blade to blend the released food, wherein the food processor is arranged to rotate the support about a rotation axis to release the received food so that it falls to the base of the vessel.
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A food processing method, comprising:
- steaming food in a vessel, while the food is retained by a support above a base of the vessel;
- rotating the support about a rotation axis to release the retained food so that the food falls to the base of the vessel;
- and
- rotating a blender blade at the base of the vessel about the same rotation axis to blend the released food.
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