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US 12,702,249 B2Granted
Kitchen appliance
AssigneeDe'Longhi Braun Household GmbH
InventorsChristof Kleemann, Daniel Lebsack, Christoph Eissengarthen, Johanna Schwinn, Jara Freund
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Abstract
A device is disclosed for peeling foodstuffs, the device comprising a rotatable disc having a first friction surface; and a second, preferably friction, surface encircling the first friction surface. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
Claims15
A kitchen appliance comprising a motor unit, and an attachment for the kitchen appliance, the attachment comprising:
- a coupling to removably attach the attachment to the kitchen appliance, the coupling configured to transmit drive from the motor to the attachment,
- a drive transmission mechanism comprising a gear box arranged to engage with the motor via the coupling, and to provide rotary drive to a drive outlet of the attachment,
- a removably attachable tool connectable to the drive outlet, the tool having an elongated axle extending away from the attachment and carrying a food processing formation at a distal end thereof, whereby a proximal end of the axle of the tool can be detached from the attachment, and
- an ejector actuable to detach the removably attachable tool from the attachment, wherein
- the kitchen appliance further comprisesing a further ejector actuable to detach of the attachment from the kitchen appliance, wherein:
- the further ejector is separate from the ejector for the removably attachable tool;
- the further ejector is spaced apart from the ejector for the removably attachable tool;
- and
- the direction of actuation of the further ejector is different from the direction of actuation of the ejector for the removably attachable tool, the arrangement being such that the further ejector is actuable to release the attachment from the motor unit, and the ejector is actuable subsequently to release the tool from the attachment.
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A kitchen appliance comprising:
- an elongated appliance body comprising a motor;
- an attachment body comprising a coupling configured to removably attach the attachment body to the appliance body, and to transit drive from the kitchen appliance to the attachment, the attachment body comprising a gearbox and a drive outlet;
- a tool having an elongated axle carrying a food processing formation at a distal end thereof, the tool attachable to the drive outlet and extending away from a lower surface of the attachment body;
- a first ejector device configured to selectively detach the attachment body from the appliance body;
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- a second ejector device configured to selectively detach a proximal end of the axle of the tool from the attachment body;
- wherein the first ejector device is spaced apart from the second ejector device and has a different direction of actuation configured such that the first ejector device is actuable to detach the attachment body before the second ejector device is actuated to detach the tool from the attachment body.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.