Patent ID: 6298776
Filing Date: 2001-10-09
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
A turning device for food processors of the kind with which the processor is a cutting machine adapted to cut or chop raw foodstuffs to be processed, said cutting machine including a container fitted with a lid and being stationary during operation of the machine, a tubular member which extends up from the container bottom and through which a driven shaft extends, a cutting device which is non-rotatably mounted on the shaft and which includes a sleeve-like central part outside the upstanding tubular member, wherein the lower end of the sleeve-like central part carries said cutting tool in the form of one or more knives which extend radially out from the sleeve, said turning device comprising: at least one pair of axially extending, curved strips of a sleeve member that has an inner diameter that slightly exceeds an outer diameter of the central part of a rotatable cutting device; wherein one end of the respective strips extends out from a holder which is common to said strips; wherein the turning device is fitted to the central part in the position of use with said holder uppermost so that the turning device defines an extension in a longitudinal direction of the central part such as to overlie essentially the whole of the central part above the knives carried by the central part; wherein the holder is supported by the container lid in the use position of said turning device, such that the turning device is substantially stationary relative to the container during operation of the food processor.