Kitchen machine
AssigneeModelo Continente Hipermercados, S.A.
InventorsDuarte Nuno FARIA ROCHA, Rui Antonio PINHO
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Abstract
The present invention applies to kitchen machines and aims to improve the operation, safety, ergonomics and versatility in using this house appliance. This house appliance consists essentially of: a machine body (1) inside which there is a main engine (3) with adjustable operation in both directions, and a control panel (2) through which the user interacts with the kitchen machine and is directly connected to the entire set of electronic components (4) intended to control and manage the machine operation.
Claims5
Kitchen machine characterized by the interchangeability between the cup (5) and pan (6) thus ensuring an alternate or complementary use of both containers that clearly have different volumes—the cup (5) which allows cooking meals for two to four persons while the pan (6) allows cooking a larger number of meals for more than four persons due to its considerably higher capacity compared to the cup (5)—wherein all the coupling system of the base (10) of the cup (5) is equivalent and transposable to the coupling system of the base (11) of the pan (6) to the machine body, and thus its alternate use is totally feasible and interchangeable in the same machine, and wherein the locking system is formed in the zone of the machine vat (25) by four cavities (26) distributed at 90° from each other which are recessed and where the couplings (27) of the base of the cup (5) and/or pan (6) are inlaid when placed in the kitchen machine, each cavity (26) having a window (28) which is coincident with the window (29) of the cup base (10) and/or pan base (11) and through which passes the jointly coupling (30) of the rotating locking ring (19), wherein each one and every component in the outer zone of the machine vat (25) is harmonized to both the bases (10, 11) of the containers, namely:
- a block consisting of five pins (23), a hexagonal socket of the engine coupling (24), a block (7) of rotating blades which are movable and applicable inside the containers (5, 6) wherein the entire locking mechanism (14) of the containers (5, 6) to the machine body (1) is also compatible to both containers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.