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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 1989
Filed:
Aug. 30, 1988
James A Hedrington, Chippewa Falls, WI (US);
Presto Industries, Inc., Eau Claire, WI (US);
Abstract
An appliance for processing food items including a first housing and a second housing releasably attached to the first housing. The first housing has a handle to facilitate hand-held use. A cutting member is mounted in the second housing and apparatus is mounted in the first housing for driving the cutting member. The driving apparatus is connected to the cutting member and actuated by a switch. A locking member secures the two housings together and an alignment mechanism is provided to position the housings for proper operation of the locking member. In one embodiment the locking member is operatively connected to the switch so that when the appliance is turned on the two housing are simultaneously locked together. The cutting member is a plastic hollow frusto-conical housing with metal cutting blades integrally molded into the housing.