Kitchen apparatus for producing farinaceous products

• US 4,146,333 A
• Filed: 03/14/1978
• Issued: 03/27/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: SPA R Bialetti & C
• Original Assignee: SPA R Bialetti & C
• Inventors: Zani, Gianmauro
• Primary Examiner(s): McCarthy, Edward J.
• Application Number:
  US05/886,357
• Time in Patent Office: 378 Days
• Field of Search: 366/69, 366/96, 366/97, 366/98, 366/99, 366/100, 366/193, 366/194, 366/196, 366/197, 366/204, 366/206, 366/241, 366/242, 366/244, 366/245, 366/249, 366/251, 366/261, 366/272 , 366/279, 366/341, 366/282, 366/347, 366/186, 366/279, 366/283
• US Class Current: 366/99
• CPC Class Codes: A21C 1/06 with horizontally-mounted mixing or kneading tools; Worm or screw mixers
• CPC Class Codes: A21C 1/144 Discharge mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: A21C 11/20 with worms
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 43/04 Machines for domestic use not covered elsewhere, e.g. for grinding, mixing, stirring, kneading, emulsifying, whipping or beating foodstuffs, e.g. power-driven
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 27/60 with stirrers rotating about a horizontal or inclined axis

Abstract

A household appliance, to be used in the production of spaghetti, noodles and other farinaceous products, has a housing which contains a generally semicylindrical mixing vessel axially traversed by a horizontal shaft fitted with a set of axially spaced and angularly offset radially extending rods for beating a mass of dough. The rods, inserted into bores of the shaft, can be extracted to facilitate an axial withdrawal of the shaft from the housing whereupon the vessel can also be removed. The dough may be flattened and/or sliced by ancillary attachments powered by the shaft drive. One such attachment, designed to produce maccaroni, comprises an extruder screw at the bottom of the housing into which the dough can be discharged through a normally obstructed bottom slot in the mixing vessel.

Claims

1. A household appliance for producing farinaceous products, comprising:

a housing having an end wall provided with a seat aperture;

a mixing vessel in said housing centered on an axis in line with said seat;

bearing means in said seat aperture centered on said axis;

agitating means in said vessel for beating a mass of dough, said agitating means including a shaft in line with said axis and a set of stirring elements detachably secured to said shaft, a free end of said shaft being rotatably journaled in said bearing means;

drive means in said housing positively coupled with an opposite end of said shaft, the latter being disengageable from said drive means and axially withdrawable from said housing through said seat aperture upon detachment of said stirring elements; and

removable cover means on said housing giving access to the interior of said vessel.

2. An appliance as defined in claim 1 wherein said stirring elements are cylindrical rods fitted into through-going transverse bores of said shaft.

3. An appliance as defined in claim 1 wherein said vessel is generally semicylindrical, said axis being horizontal.

4. An appliance as defined in claim 3, further comprising ancillary dough-shaping means secured to said housing for actuation by said drive means.

5. An appliance as defined in claim 4 wherein said dough-shaping means comprises an extruder underneath said vessel, the latter having a bottom slot provided with closure means removable to let dough pass from said vessel to said extruder.

6. An appliance as defined in claim 1 wherein said drive means comprises a motor and a speed reducer coupled with said motor, said speed reducer normally engaging said opposite end.

7. An appliance as defined in claim 6 wherein said housing, said vessel and said speed reducer consist of thermoplastic material.

8. An appliance as defined in claim 6 wherein said motor has an energizing circuit including switch means openable by said cover means upon removal thereof to deactivate said drive means.

9. An appliance as defined in claim 1, further comprising timing means for automatically deactivating said drive means after a predetermined operating period.

10. An appliance as defined in claim 1, further comprising an ancillary dough-shaping attachment receivable in said seat upon removal of said bearing means, and transmission means emplaceable in said housing for operatively linking said attachment with said drive means.