Vegetable Cutting Machine

Vegetable cutting machine, applicable to the action of cutting vegetables as well as to the treatment and processing of other types of products such as, for example, cheeses, bread, etc., the machine being structured from a base (1) constituting the motor unit, a cover (2) that closes off the top of the base and which provides a cavity for housing the food processing and cutting disk (8), a food feeder part (3) positioned in a manner that can fold over the cover (2) and connected to the latter in a manner that can be dismounted by means of a removable shaft (9), provided with a mouth (5) for feeding food, and a presser (4) having a curvilinear longitudinal outline, connected in a folding manner at one of its ends to a support (10) solid with the aforesaid food feeder part (3) and provided with holding means at the end opposite to the folding end, provided with a cylindrical tubular projection (6) which is housed inside the aforesaid food feeder mouth (5) and which admits the insertion inside it of a food plunger (7), also having a cylindrical shape, the machine being activated by means of an electrical motor (32) mounted on a corresponding support and from which motion is transferred to an output shaft (33) that drives the aforesaid food processing and cutting disk (8),

• characterised in that the connection between the presser (4) and the support (10) solid with the food feeder part (3), is likewise a dismountable connection materialised through a removable shaft (11) configured for an efficient interlock in its operating position;
• in that the machine also incorporates a blocking device between the food feeder part (3) and the cover (2) of the machine which enables the stable selection of the position of the aforesaid blocking device in correspondence with the open or closed condition of the aforesaid food feeder part (3), and
• in that the motor support (31) consists of a support plate configured in such a way that it allows all the driving and motion transfer components of the machine to be mounted on it, together with watertight elements for its mounting and assembly.