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AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsTerukazu Yamauchi, Katsufumi Nishio, Fusao Niino, Toyoaki Murasawa
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For use in a food processor comprising a power unit having a drive shaft, a removable receptacle including a container and a lid having a feed chute communicable to the interior of the receptacle when mounted on the container, and a rotary treating element rotatable within the receptacle together with the drive shaft, a tilt preventing element for preventing a food material inserted into the feed chute from being tilted sideways which comprises an elastic retainer member including a plurality of long elastic tines and a corresponding number of short elastic tines. The long and short tines are curved so that, when the elastic retainer member is removably mounted on the open end of the feed chute opposite to the container, they extend downwardly in the feed chute and diverge outwardly from the surrounding wall defining the feed chute.
A tilt preventing means for use in a food processor of the type which has an electric motor with a drive shaft, a removable receptacle which includes a container and a lid with the lid having an upwardly extending wall which defines a feed chute which connects the exterior at one open end of the chute with the interior of the receptacle at a second end when it is mounted on the container, and a rotary treating element which is caused to rotate at a high speed within the receptacle by the drive shaft, said tilt preventing means comprising:
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