Patent ID: 6955117

Claim:
Tool for a food processing machine, comprising a tubular casing, a drive shaft for rotatingly driving a food processing element, and a centering and guiding element which ensures that the drive shaft is mounted for rotation in the tubular casing, the tubular casing and the drive shaft being provided, at the same first end, with removable means for locking to a machine body and releasable means for coupling to a main shaft of the machine, respectively, the centering and guiding element comprising removable means for fixing to the tubular casing in order to allow the drive shaft to be disassembled from the tubular casing, characterised in that the centering and guiding element is mounted in the tubular casing at a side of the first end, and the fixing means thereof are suitable for being locked in a correct position for fixing to the tubular casing by complementary locking means provided on the machine body when the tubular casing is fixed to the machine body in order to prevent the drive shaft from becoming inadvertently disassembled from the tubular casing when the tool is operated.