Food processor with a dicing function

• US 9,763,543 B2
• Filed: 08/04/2014
• Issued: 09/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Elec-Tech International Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Elec-Tech International Company Limited
• Inventors: Wang, Tony, Chen, Xuejun, Chen, Jianwei
• Primary Examiner(s): Francis, Faye
• Application Number:
  US14/450,516
• Publication Number:
  US 20150144721A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,142 Days
• Field of Search: 241 92
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 43/044 with tools driven from the top side
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 43/0705 for machines with tools driven from the upper side A47J43/0727 - A47J43/08 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 43/0722 Mixing, whipping or cutting tools
• CPC Class Codes: B26D 3/22 using rotating knives

Abstract

Provided is a food processor with a dicing function, including a driving device and a dicing assembly; the dicing assembly includes a main body, a lid, a driving axle, an annular supporting body and a dicing knife component; and a mesh shaper is disposed on the annular supporting body; the dicing knife component is rotatably disposed on the annular supporting body and is coupling connected to the driving axle; an annular flange of the annular supporting body is extended towards the lid in direction of a central axis of the driving axle, and a limiting groove is disposed on an inner surface of the annular flange; a radial outer end of the dicing knife component is capable of sliding inside the limiting groove. The food processor with a dicing function of the present disclosure has advantages of higher limit precision for cutting, better effect for dicing, and lower noise.

Claims

1. A food processor with a dicing function, comprising:

a driving device and a dicing assembly;

said dicing assembly comprises a main body, a lid, a driving axle, an annular supporting body and a dicing knife component;

said driving axle is disposed inside the main body, said lid is disposed on an opening of said main body, and a feeding channel is disposed on said lid, said annular supporting body is disposed inside said main body, and a mesh shaper is disposed on said annular supporting body;

said dicing knife component is rotatably disposed on said annular supporting body and is coupled to said driving axle;

wherein, said annular supporting body has an annular flange extending towards the lid in direction of a central axis of said driving axle, and a limiting groove is disposed on an inner surface of said annular flange;

wherein a radial outer end of said dicing knife component is slidingly disposed inside said limiting groove; and

wherein one or more knife-in troughs are disposed on an upper wall of said limiting groove, and the radial outer end of said dicing knife component is adapted to enter said limiting groove through the knife-in trough.

2. The food processor with a dicing function according to claim 1, wherein, a convex rib, which is bulged-in, is disposed on an upper part of the inner surface of said annular flange, and said limiting groove is formed by said convex rib, the inner surface of said annular flange and an upper surface of said annular supporting body.

3. The food processor with a dicing function according to claim 2, wherein, said dicing knife component comprises a connecting element coupling connected to an upper end of said driving axle, a straight knife body extending outwards from said connecting element along radial direction of said annular supporting body, and a rotating block disposed on a radial outer end of said straight knife body.

4. The food processor with a dicing function according to claim 1, wherein, said limiting groove has a first height H1, and the radial outer end of said dicing knife component has a second height H2, and 0<

H1−

H2≦

2 mm.

5. The food processor with a dicing function according to claim 4, wherein, said dicing knife component comprises a connecting element coupling connected to an upper end of said driving axle, a straight knife body extending outwards from said connecting element along radial direction of said annular supporting body, and a rotating block disposed on a radial outer end of said straight knife body.

6. The food processor with a dicing function according to claim 1, wherein, a horizontal location of the knife-in trough avoids a horizontal location of said mesh shaper.

7. The food processor with a dicing function according to claim 6, wherein, said dicing knife component comprises a connecting element coupling connected to an upper end of said driving axle, a straight knife body extending outwards from said connecting element along radial direction of said annular supporting body, and a rotating block disposed on a radial outer end of said straight knife body.

8. The food processor with a dicing function according to claim 1, wherein, a slanted knife-in face is disposed on an end of the upper wall of said limiting groove, and said end is approximate to the knife-in trough.

9. The food processor with a dicing function according to claim 8, wherein, said dicing knife component comprises a connecting element coupling connected to an upper end of said driving axle, a straight knife body extending outwards from said connecting element along radial direction of said annular supporting body, and a rotating block disposed on a radial outer end of said straight knife body.

10. The food processor with a dicing function according to claim 9, wherein, said dicing knife component comprises two straight knife bodies radially extending from said connecting element along opposite directions.

11. The food processor with a dicing function according to claim 9, wherein, a knife handle is disposed on an upper end of said connecting element.

12. The food processor with a dicing function according to claim 1, wherein, a slanted into-groove face is disposed on an upper part of the radial outer end of said dicing knife component, and said slanted into-groove face intersects with an upper surface of the radial outer end of said dicing knife component at a certain angle.

13. The food processor with a dicing function according to claim 12, wherein, said dicing knife component comprises a connecting element coupling connected to an upper end of said driving axle, a straight knife body extending outwards from said connecting element along radial direction of said annular supporting body, and a rotating block disposed on a radial outer end of said straight knife body.

14. The food processor with a dicing function according to claim 13, wherein, said dicing knife component comprises two straight knife bodies radially extending from said connecting element along opposite directions.

15. The food processor with a dicing function according to claim 13, wherein, a knife handle is disposed on an upper end of said connecting element.

16. The food processor with a dicing function according to claim 1, wherein, said dicing knife component comprises a connecting element coupling connected to an upper end of said driving axle, a straight knife body extending outwards from said connecting element along radial direction of said annular supporting body, and a rotating block disposed on a radial outer end of said straight knife body.

17. The food processor with a dicing function according to claim 16, wherein, said dicing knife component comprises two straight knife bodies radially extending from said connecting element along opposite directions.

18. The food processor with a dicing function according to claim 16, wherein, a knife handle is disposed on an upper end of said connecting element.