Patent ID: 7354192

Claim:
A blender for producing ice-cream and similar, the blender comprising a box-shaped outer casing; a substantially cylindrical tubular bowl extending from the surface of, and inwards of, the box-shaped casing and coaxially with a first reference axis; and a hatch designed to close the inlet of the bowl and fitted movably to said box-shaped casing so as to be positioned closing the inlet of said bowl; said hatch comprising a substantially porthole-like cover, which is designed to close the inlet of the bowl in fluidtight manner, is fitted to said box-shaped casing to move to and from an operating position closing the inlet of the bowl, and has a central through opening positioned close to the centre of the inlet of the bowl when the cover is positioned closing the inlet of the bowl; said hatch also comprising a hopper projecting from the body of the cover and connected to said central through opening, and a safety grille fixed removably to the body of said cover and designed to partly occupy the inlet of said hopper; wherein said cover comprises a number of parallel, aligned, projecting pins projecting from the body of the cover; and said safety grille comprises a supporting crosspiece extending astride said projecting pins and having a number of transverse dead holes engaged firmly, but easily removably, by respective said projecting pins, and a rigid grille structure projecting from said supporting crosspiece to engage the inlet of said hopper.