Food processor appliances
AssigneeAAC Trade Ltd.
InventorsEli Cohen, Ann Grant
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Abstract
A food processor appliance includes various types of adaptors for permitting both liquid and solid food ingredients to be separately or concurrently fed into the appliance for processing therein, or for adapting the appliance particularly for processing long, slim food articles, such as carrots, cucumbers, etc. Another described feature is particularly useful for juicer-type appliances, and includes a base for supporting a juice-receiver receptacle, which base includes a retractable tray for catching drippings when the receptacle is not in place.
Claims33
A food processor appliance, comprising:
- a housing including a food processing device therein;
- a feed tube having an inlet end projecting from an upper surface of said housing for inputting into said housing food articles to be processed by the food processing device;
- a funnel received in said inlet end of the feed tube for feeding the food articles via said feed tube to said food processing device within the housing;
- and a liquid-receiver receptacle configured to occupy only a portion of said funnel such as to permit both liquid and solid food ingredients to be separately or concurrently fed via said feed tube to said food processing device within the housing.
An adaptor for a food processor appliance having a feed tube, said adaptor comprising:
- a funnel receivable within the inlet end of the food tube;
- and a liquid-receiver receptacle configured to occupy only a portion of said funnel such as to permit both liquid and solid food ingredients to be separately or concurrently fed via said feed tube into said food processor appliance.
A base for supporting a food processor appliance comprising a housing including a juice extractor, an outlet for outletting extracted juice, and a juice-receiver receptacle for receiving said extracted juice;
- characterized in that said base includes a tray to underlie said juice outlet for supporting said juice-receiver receptacle and for receiving any drippings from said juice outlet when said juice-receiver receptacle is not supported thereon.
A food processor appliance, comprising:
- a housing including a food processing device therein;
- and a feed tube having an inlet end for inputting into said housing food articles to be processed by said food processing device;
- characterized in that said feed tube includes a plurality of radially-displaceable fingers engageable with food articles fed therethrough, for restricting lateral movement of such food articles within said feed tube during the operation of the food processing device.
A food processor appliance, comprising:
- a housing including a food processing device therein;
- and a feed tube having an inlet end for inputting into said housing food articles to be processed by said food processing device;
- characterized in that said appliance further comprises an adaptor receivable in said feed tube and having a passageway of smaller cross-section than that of said feed tube for adapting the appliance to receive long, slim food articles, such as carrots, cucumbers and the like, in a manner restricting lateral movement thereof within said feed tube during the operation of said food processing device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.