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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2000
Jean-Paul Bouleau, Champfleur, FR;
Joel Deschamps, Mayenne, FR;
Moulinex S.A., Paris, FR;
Abstract
An appliance includes a housing ( ) containing a motor ( ) whose output shaft ( ) passes through the housing base ( ) and drives in rotation a tool ( ) housed in a bowl ( ) locked on the housing and closed by a lid ( ); and a safety device ( ) having a vertical thruster ( ) mounted sliding in the bowl ( ) peripheral wall ( ) and actuated by a cam ( ) borne by the lid ( ) so as to penetrate in an opening ( ) provided in the base to be urged to actuate a switch controlling the motor. A rigid cover ( ) is mounted on the base movable between an inoperative position wherein it conceals the base opening ( ), when the bowl is not on the base ( ), and an operative position wherein it clears the opening ( ) by the action of an actuating member ( ) borne by the bowl ( ) when the latter is locked on the base ( ).