Food processing appliance and method
AssigneeConair Corporation
InventorsROBERT KUBICKO, THEODORE B. MULLE, ASIK BRAGINSKY
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A food processor that is operable in a dough mixing mode and in at least one other mixing mode. When in the dough mixing mode, the mixing impeller is driven at a continuous speed in the range of about 1,400 to about 1,600 rpm and preferably form about 1,400 rpm to about 1,550 rpm. When i8n the other mixing mode, the impeller is driven at a speed in excess of 1,600 rpm. The impeller has a blade assembly with an upper blade and a lower blade that are offset vertically and sloped toward one another to thereby slice a relatively wide swath of the dough ball during mixing.
Claims24
A food processor comprising:
- a motor;
- an impeller driven by the motor;
- a mode control that establishes a bread dough mixing mode and at least one other mixing mode;
- and
- a motor control that responds to the mode control to operate the motor to drive the impeller at a continuous speed in the range of about 1,400 rpm to about 1,600 rpm during the bread dough mixing mode and at a speed in excess of 1,600 rpm during the at least one other mode.
A method of operating a food processor that has a mixing impeller operable in a bread dough mixing mode and at least one other mode, said method comprising:
- (a) signaling that the food processor is in the bread dough mixing mode;
- (b) signaling that the food processor is in the at least one other mode;
- (c) in response to step (a), driving a mixing impeller at a continuous speed in the range of about 1,400 rpm to about 1,600 rpm during the bread dough mixing mode;
- and
- (d) in response to step (b), driving the mixing impeller at a speed in excess of 1,600 rpm during the at least one other mode.
An impeller for mixing dough, said impeller comprising an impeller shaft with a blade assembly, the blade assembly including an upper blade and a lower blade offset vertically from one another and sloping toward one another.
A bread dough mixer comprising an impeller driven by a motor at a continuous speed in the range of about 1,400 rpm to about 1,600 rpm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.