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US 8,943,954 B2Granted
Food processor with cleaning tool
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsMichael P. Conti, Keeley Kabala, Kevin James Beber, David J. Gushwa
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Abstract
A food processor having a dicing tool and a cleaning tool to clean out the dicing tool.
Claims15
A food processor comprising:
- a receptacle configured to receive processed food;
- a food guide configured to receive food for processing and in communication with the receptacle to at least partially define a food processing path from the food guide to the receptacle;
- a cutting tool selectively movable through the food processing path to cut food as it passes through the food processing path;
- a dicing tool having multiple dicing openings selectively located in the food processing path, between the cutting tool and the receptacle, having multiple intersecting elements defining multiple dicing openings through which the cut food must pass to dice the cut food;
- a clean-out tool having projections sized to be received within the dicing openings;
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- a drive mechanism coupled to the dicing tool to selectively move the dicing tool into the clean-out tool to remove food remaining in the dicing openings.
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A food processor comprising:
- a receptacle configured to receive processed food;
- a food guide configured to receive food for processing and in communication with the receptacle to at least partially define a food processing path from the food guide to the receptacle;
- a cutting tool selectively movable through the food processing path to cut food as it passes through the food processing path;
- a dicing tool having multiple dicing openings located in the food processing path, between the cutting tool and the receptacle, having multiple intersecting elements defining multiple dicing openings through which the cut food must pass to dice the cut food;
- a clean-out tool having multiple projections sized to be received within the dicing openings;
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- a drive mechanism selectively operably coupled to the dicing tool and the clean-out tool to selectively move the clean-out tool into the dicing tool to remove food remaining in the dicing openings;
- wherein the drive mechanism effects axial movement of the dicing tool out of a rotational path of the clean-out tool, then rotates the clean-out tool into axial alignment with the dicing tool, and then axially moves the dicing tool to insert the projections into the dicing openings.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.