Food processing apparatus

• US 4,124,310 A
• Filed: 06/06/1977
• Issued: 11/07/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Premark FEG LLC (Illinois Tool Works Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hobart Corporation (Illinois Tool Works Inc.)
• Inventors: Athey, Stuart E., Brackman, Donald A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Jenkins, Robert W.
• Application Number:
  US05/803,459
• Time in Patent Office: 519 Days
• Field of Search: 366/185, 366/189, 366/305, 366/306, 366/309, 366/312, 366/293, 366/295, 366/296, 366/313, 366/314, 366/245, 366/247, 241/92, 241/282.1, 241/282.2, 241/199.7, 51/163.1, 51/164, 99/348
• US Class Current: 366/314
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 27/231 with a variable orientation during mixing operation, e.g. with tiltable rotor axis
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 27/808 with stirrers driven from the bottom of the receptacle
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 35/3213 at the lower side of the axis, e.g. driving the stirrer from the bottom of a receptacle
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 35/75 Discharge mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 35/7548 using tilting or pivoting means for emptying the mixing receptacle
• CPC Class Codes: B02C 18/12 with drive arranged below container B02C18/083 takes precedence

Abstract

Processing of certain foodstuffs in a high speed food processing apparatus is facilitated through the use of a flexible, non-ductile food basket, the shape of which is restored by the bowl when the basket is inserted into the bowl.

Claims

1. In an apparatus for processing foodstuffs, including a mixing bowl having a drive shaft extending into the bowl through the bottom thereof, a motor mounted outside the bowl and connected to rotate the drive shaft, food processing blades mountable on the drive shaft within the bowl for processing foodstuffs therein when the motor is operated, and a cover system including a lid for closing the top of the bowl, the improvement comprising a flexible, semi-rigid, perforated, non-ductile, contents supporting food basket, the exterior of which is shaped to conform to the shape of the interior surface of the bowl and to fit the bowl interior closely to cause the bowl to restore said basket to its proper, bowl matching shape whenever inserted into the bowl, and to support and retain foodstuffs therein when removed from the bowl.