Electrical household appliance for culinary purposes

Apparatus for food preparation comprising a base, a mixing bowl received on said base, a rotatable tool within said bowl, a column extending upwardly from said base and having a top end, an arm extending substantially horizontally above the bowl, said arm being supported by the top end of said column and having a free end and said arm further having an upper surface, a spaced lower surface and a lateral surface joining said upper and lower surfaces and defining the lateral extent of the end of the arm, an upwardly extending drive shaft of said tool being engageable with said arm, drive means for said tool contained within said arm, said drive means including a pinion for rotating the drive shaft of said tool, said pinion being fixed to said drive shaft to thereby form a drive assembly for the tool, a recess formed within the free end of said arm within which said drive assembly can be detatchably mounted, a seat for said drive assembly formed within said recess, and an opening provided in said arm by which said recess communicates with the exterior, said opening being so positioned as to enable said drive assembly to be moved into and out of said recess, said opening extending through the lower surface, the lateral surface and the upper surface of the arm, such that said opening comprises a lower zone allowing passage of the drive shaft toward the bowl and a lateral zone allowing passage of the drive shaft laterally out of and into said recess and an upper zone allowing passage of said drive assembly, said bowl being substantially cylindrical in shape, and, when the tool drive assembly is in its mounted position, the drive shaft of the tool extending along the vertical axis of said bowl, and at least one lateral edge of said tool lying in the immediate vicinity of a substantially cylindrical inner wall of said bowl.