Pasta, pastry, cookie, and hors d'oeuvre maker
AssigneeRonco Marketing Corporation
InventorsAlan L. Backus, Ronald M. Popeil
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Abstract
A device to mix and extrude various ingredients including pastas, pastries, baked goods, hors d'oeuvres, and cookies. The device includes novel measuring, mixing and extrusion arrangements including: an automatic measuring cup; a way to continuously mix and extrude ingredients without intervening cleanings; a mixing and extrusion feed for handling different consistencies of ingredients; an integrated automatic cutter; motor cooling and extruded ingredient drying; as well as various safety devices.
Claims22
A device for making pasta from pasta making ingredients, comprising:
- a container capable of housing pasta making ingredients;
- a housing containing a driven auger screw which conveys pasta making ingredients out from the container when the auger screw is driven;
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- a thrust bearing, the thrust bearing having a first plate and a second washer, the first and the second washers accepting thrust loads from the auger screw when the auger screw is driven, the first washer having an annular portion and a flange portion that extends away from the annular portion, which can be deformed to be snapped on and partially surround the auger screw and rotating with the auger screw when the auger screw is driven and the second washer not rotating with the auger screw when the auger screw is driven.
A farinaceous food product extrusion device, comprising:
- a container for containing the farinaceous food product;
- an essentially cylindrical screw housing;
- an auger screw disposed within the housing, the housing extending into the container;
- a thrust bearing, the thrust bearing having a first washer and a second washer, the first and the second washers accepting thrust loads from the auger screw when the auger screw is driven, the first washer having a first inner diameter and a second inner diameter and being removably attached to the auger screw by a projection extending from the second inner diameter of the first washer that is accepted in a groove in the auger screw, and the first washer rotating with the auger screw when the auger screw is driven and the second washer not rotating with the auger screw when the auger screw is driven;
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- means for rotating the auger screw.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.