Hand-held food processor
OwnerDavid A. Holcomb, Joshua R. Stewartinventors
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Abstract
A hand-held hand-powered food processor having a pull cord motor for rotating a spindle that carries an arm. The arm can be a cutter blade or an elastomeric flexible peeler arm having a durometer of preferable between Shore 80A and Shore 82A. A food processor having a spindle, an elastomeric arm driven by the spindle, a stop block on a sidewall near the end of the arm, and a drive for rotating the spindle to rub against the skin of food in the processor for peeling the food. The cover of the processor has a flat outer periphery so the cover can be used as a storage unit for the contents of the processor.
Claims37
A hand-powered, hand-held food processor compromising;
- a cup for holding the food to be processed and having a rotatable drive shaft;
- a food processing arm removably drivingly engaged to the drive shaft,
- a cover removably mounted on the cup;
- a hand-powered motor for driving the drive shaft, the hand-powered motor having a one way drive transmission, a pulley connected to the drive transmission, a pull cord having multiple wraps encircling the pulley whereby a pull on the pull cord by the user will rotate the pulley and thus the drive shaft for a long duration at a high one way rate of speed, and a return spring for retracting the extended pull cord to its original multiple wraps around the pulley.
A food processor for peeling food products having a removable skin, such as garlic cloves, the food processor having a food holding cup, a rotatable flexible elastomeric arm, means for rotating the arm within the cup, said cup having a cylindrical sidewall, a stop block on the sidewall for interrupting the free spinning rotating of food in the cup, whereby the food in the cup is rubbed by the rotating elastomeric flexible arm to rub the skin off the food to be processed.
A hand-held food processor comprising a housing having a cup for food to be processed, a food processing arm attached to a drive shaft rotatably mounted in the cup, means for rotating the drive shaft for moving the arm in the cup to process food in the cup, and a cover removably attached to the cup, the cover having a uniform outer periphery to serve as a base when the cover is removed from the cup thereby allowing the contents of the processor to fall into the cover when the cover is positioned beneath the cup and then the cup removed to hold the contents of the cup on a table or counter top.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.