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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 1987
Filed:
Nov. 03, 1986
Stefan Henn, Solingen, DE;
Robert Krups Stiftung & Co. KG., Solingen, DE;
Abstract
A food processor wherein the tool in the bowl is rotated by a spindle, which is driven by an electric motor, through the medium of an insulating sleeve and an adapter which receives torque from the sleeve and transmits torque directly to the tool or through the medium of a tool carrier. The insulating sleeve, the spindle and an inner tubular portion of the adapter are surrounded by a tubular extension which is integral with the bottom wall and extends into the interior of the bowl. An outer tubular portion of the adapter has a coupling device which cooperates with the internal coupling device of a tool when the latter is placed around the outer tubular portion. A shank which extends upwardly from the outer tubular portion of the adapter can be centered at the underside of a cover for the bowl and can have an additional external coupling element which transmits torque to a tool or to the carrier. The selected tool or the carrier can but need not be removed from the bowl with the adapter. The cover must be properly attached to the main portion of the bowl as well as to the housing of the food processor before the motor for the spindle can be started to rotate a selected tool in the bowl.