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US 7,681,817 B2Granted
Food processor
AssigneeConair Corporation
InventorJill Kreutzer Orent
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Abstract
A food processor (100) includes one or more of a removable feed tubes (155), a cover or lid (156) for a feed tube opening (154), a double sided grating disc (190), a bowl or receptacle (110) having a pour spout and a complimentary hinged spout lid (140s) on the bowl cover (140), a bowl mounted drive shaft (115), an extensible shaft for mounting various blades or discs at various heights, and an adjustable thickness slicing disc (180).
Claims9
A food processor, which comprises:
- a base;
- an enclosure mountable to the base for containing food products and defining an enclosure axis;
- a drive mechanism mounted within the base;
- a drive shaft connected to the drive mechanism and rotatable about a drive axis upon actuation of the drive mechanism, and having a food processing blade mounted to the drive shaft and disposed within the enclosure;
- a lid for covering the enclosure, the lid defining a feed tube opening permitting access to within the enclosure;
- a feed tube removably mounted to the lid;
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- a feed tube opening cover removably mounted to the lid and adapted to selectively cover the feed tube opening.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.