Rotary food processor

• US 6,302,014 B1
• Filed: 04/25/2001
• Issued: 10/16/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Huo Feng Hsia Kuan
• Original Assignee: Huo Feng Hsia Kuan
• Inventors: Kuan, Huo Feng Hsia
• Primary Examiner(s): Simone, Timothy F.
• Application Number:
  US09/841,111
• Time in Patent Office: 174 Days
• Field of Search: 994/92, 994/95, 995/09--13, 996/23--31, 241/92, 241/93, 241/37.5, 241/68, 241/282.1, 241/282.2, 241/199.12, 241/101.2, 241/285.1, 241/280, 241/166, 241/169.1, 241/273.1, 241/273.2, 241/273.3, 241/278.1, 833/55, 833/563, 835/92, 833/26, 839/32, 834/23, 834/352, 426/112, 426/115, 426/124, 426/130, 366/314, 366/297, 366/279, 366/83-85
• US Class Current: 99/510
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 43/1018 the mixing device being fitted on the cover of, or directly on, the stationary mixing receptacle
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 43/255 with grating discs or drums

Abstract

A rotary food processor comprises an upper lid, a rotary part, and a cutter part. As soon as the locking device in the cutter part is discharged and the turning knob assembly is rotated to make a selected flat surface or the cutters on any one of cutting surfaces on a tool carrier post pass through guide grooves and displace to an axial groove, a lock device is located in place and a treated food is placed between a press disk and a bottom plate in the cutter part to be moved on the bottom plate by the press disk while a handle knob is turned. When the treated food passes through said cutters, the treated food is cut a thrust with a depth and a width and then cut off by the cutters such that finished products with a desired width can fall down through an output slot on the bottom plate.

Claims

1. A rotary food processor, comprising

an upper lid, being a covering with a top central hole;

a rotary part, being a power source, further comprising a spindle with two ends, an end thereof connecting with a handle knob via an extended rod, the other end thereof passing through the top central hole, and a press disk with a central disk hole, the central disk hole connecting with the other end of the spindle to constitute a relationship of joining movement; and

a cutter part, being a box joined to the upper lid, having a bottom plate with a radial output slot, a cutter being provided at the output slot in an inclined position and an axial groove being provided near any lateral position of the cutter, the axial groove at both lateral sides thereof providing a plurality of equal spaced guide grooves respectively, a tool carrier post being disposed at the bottom of the axial groove, the tool carrier post providing an equiangular flat surface and at least a cutting surface, the cutting surface providing a plurality of cutters being arranged to correspond to the guide grooves respectively or to space apart in an equal distance, a turning knob assembly having a stem part passing through a locating hole at the bottom of the box wall and a through hole in the tool carrier post respectively to join the tool carrier post to a bottom of said box, and a lock device being arranged between the turning knob assembly and the box;

whereby, as soon as the lock device is discharged and the turning knob assembly is rotated to make the selected flat surface or the cutters on any one of the cutting surfaces pass through the guide grooves and displace to the axial groove, the lock device is located in place and a treated food is placed between the press disk and the bottom plate to be moved on the bottom plate by the press disk while the handle knob is turned; and

when the treated food passes through said cutters, the treated food is cut a thrust with a depth and a width and then cut off by the cutters such that finished products with a desired width can fall down through the output slot.

2. The rotary food processor as defined in claim 1, wherein the locking device is a turning knob assembly with a stem part passing through a locating hole at the bottom of the box wall and a through hole in the tool carrier post and a locating hole in the lower projection at bottom of the box piercing through a spring to join a lock piece;

a locating hole at another end thereof corresponding provides a plurality of equiangular spaced lock recesses on the circumferential surface thereof based on the sum of the flat surface and the cutting surfaces, and the turning knob assembly at an inner wall thereof provides a plurality of projections corresponding to the lock recesses;

as soon as the turning knob assembly is pulled outward, the lock piece compresses the spring to separate the projections from the lock recesses so as to release the state of locking.

3. The rotary food processor as defined in claim 1, wherein the upper lid at a lower rim thereof provides a plurality of engaging devices corresponding to a plurality of engaging devices at an upper rim of the box wall on the cutter part for the upper lid joining to the cutter part.

4. The rotary food processor as defined in claim 1, wherein the upper lid at a periphery thereof provides a lid step and a plurality of lid lines are provided on the upper lid below the lid step.

5. The rotary food processor as defined in claim 1, wherein the press disk at a bottom thereof provides a plurality of sharp cones and each of the sharp cones has a shape of cone or nail.

6. The rotary food processor as defined in claim 1, wherein the cutting operation is unable to proceed as soon as a cone shaped hole provided under the bottom of the press disk fits with a central cone projection provided on the bottom plate of the cutting part.

7. The rotary food processor as defined in claim 1, further comprises a container with a connection device at an upper rim thereof to engage with a joining device on the cutter part for receiving the finished product falling down from the cutting part.

8. The rotary food processor as defined in claim 7, wherein the container at a lateral side thereof extends outward a grip 42 and a lip, and the lip is disposed opposite to the grip.

9. The rotary food processor as defined in claim 1, wherein the upper lid is preferably transparent.

10. The rotary food processor as defined in claim 6, wherein the container is preferably transparent.