Patent ID: 8720325
Filing Date: 2014-05-13
Classification: A47J,B26D

Abstract:
1. A food processor comprising: a base having a motor positioned therein, a removable bowl coupled to the base, a removable lid coupled to the bowl, the lid having a feed tube that opens into the bowl, a cutting blade, including a central shaft, positioned in the bowl and driven by the motor to cut food items advanced through the feed tube, a rotating disk having a sleeve extending downwardly from a lower surface of the rotating disk and upwardly and downwardly moveable along the central shaft relative to the cutting blade to adjust the distance therebetween, a user-operated pin positioned substantially horizontally below the rotating disk and having a pin body extending from a first end through a sidewall of the sleeve having a first plurality of teeth to a second end disposed in an aperture formed in the central shaft, the user-operated pin being moveable between (i) a first position in which the rotating disk is prevented from moving upwardly and downwardly relative to the cutting blade, and (ii) a second position in which the rotating disk is permitted to move upwardly and downwardly relative to the cutting blade; and an outer surface of the pin body including a second plurality of teeth extending therefrom, at least one of the first plurality of teeth engaging the second plurality of teeth when the user-operated pin is in the first position.