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The knives on the surface of a peeler and grater disc for a vegetable peeling machine are formed from portions of the disc and are integral therewith. The knives are arranged in generally spiral rows from the center of the disc. Upturned reinforcing lips formed from and integral with the disc are located...     

The knife assembly consists essentially of a relatively light two-edged cutting insert and a heavier holder. The insert is symmetrical about its longitudinal axis. In cross-section the two cutting edges of the insert represent the acute corners of a parallelogram, the obtuse corners of which are occupied...     

In food processing apparatus having a working bowl with a motor-driven shaft extending vertically upwards through the bottom of the bowl and various selected rotary tools having disc-like cutting tool members positioned in the top of the bowl which can be engaged with this shaft for processing food introduced...     

For grating cheese for commercial purposes, a motor driven disk having grating surfaces is provided. A semi-cylindrical trough is aligned below the axis of rotation of the disk. A top is hinged to a housing for the motor and has a guard for the upper half of the disk and a cover for the trough. Within...     

A rotary cutting apparatus having cutters or knife devices which are provided with angularly disposed contact surfaces and which devices are mounted with the contact surfaces in cooperative engagement with angularly disposed supporting or clamping surfaces of opposed knife support members.

Machinery for reducing forest products to wood chips wherein a bed conveyor, a powered roll mounted for vertical movement above the bed conveyor, and powered, generally vertical side roll means downstream of the generally horizontal roll, feed a tree or log to a chipper disc. The chipper disc has at...     

An apparatus for reducing whole trees having attached limbs and branches to chips wherein a power driven disc chipper is mounted on a frame and a tree or brush feeding and conditioning mechanism is driven at a coordinated feeding speed for feeding trees and tree parts into the chipper while folding projecting...     

A base member which may be cylindrical in form has a central post extending therefrom. Surrounding the central post is a tray having a ring running around its edge which forms a perimeter for the tray. Extending up from the tray are a plurality of spikes on which cheese is impaled and thus held in position...     

An appliance for slicing and shredding vegetables, fruits, cheeses and other food products having an improved safety interlock wherein the cover for the receptacle in which the slicing and shredding is performed includes means for completing the mechanical coupling between the motor and the slicing and...     

The food processor includes a housing having a motor chamber disposed alongside of a food processing bowl thereby materially decreasing the overall height of the apparatus. A lid is removably attached to the bowl and when properly in position, actuates a motor control switch on the housing whereby the...     

This invention relates to a device for shaving ice for use in the confections industry. The device comprises a series of components in concentric vertical alignment, at the top of which is an insulated hopper for charging the operating mechanism with a supply of chunks or pieces of ice in regular or...     

Snap-on fastener apparatus for removably holding tools on a drive shaft turned by the motor of a household electrical appliance, particularly shown as a food processor with multiple uses, in which interchangeable rotary tools of various shapes and types are employed as a function of the different food...     

A disk type wood chipper having cutter knives disposed non-radially on a chipper disk to cut a slab of wood from a log and having guide means with ridges over which such slab is caused to slide so that the slab disintegrates into wood chips of substantially uniform size.

The present invention is related to a chipper wherein the housing is divided by a chipper disc into a front chamber and a chip chamber and wherein separate outlets are provided from the front chamber and from the chip chamber respectively for twigs and the like (debris) and for chips whereby separation...     

An apparatus for slicing and cooking potatoes in a chip form is disclosed herein having a cylindrical base with electrical heating elements in the sidewall thereof for holding a quantity of cooking oil. A removable basket is immersed in the cooking oil and is disposed directly beneath a potato slicing...     

In a food processor with a power base and a lid-covered bowl, a feed chute through the lid empties onto a cutting disc rotated by a shaft extending into and terminating in the bowl. To this general combination an improvement in the disc structure is provided comprising a peripheral flange around the...     

A julienne cutter tool and method of making are described, the cutter being intended for use in rotary food processing apparatus of the type having an upright working bowl with a vertical motor-driven tool shaft extending up into the bowl. The julienne cutter has a hub engageable with said tool shaft...     

In a food processor with a power base and lid-covered bowl, a cutting disc is rotated by a shaft extending into and terminating in the bowl, and structure is provided to reverse the shaft rotation on selection. In this general arrangement, an improvement is provided in the cutting disc comprising a first...     

A mechanism is provided for crushing and grinding cremated remains and includes a vertical cylindrical housing, a stationary bearing plate positioned transversely across the shaft defined within the housing, and a rotatable perforated grinding disk. The weight of the bearing plate crushes the crematory...     

A machine for comminuting clay stock. The machine includes a rotating body and a plurality of cutter blades attached to the body for rotation therewith. Clay stock is directed onto the body by a feed hopper. A non-rotating crowder mechanism is associated with the cutting blades to crowd portions of the...     

A liquid swirler arranged to comminute relatively large solids so as to permit the comminuted solids to pass through openings in the swirler with a liquid flow induced therethrough. In the illustrated embodiment, the apparatus is utilized in a dishwasher having a pump for flowing dishwashing liquid through...     

For use in a food processor comprising a power unit having a drive shaft, a removable receptacle including a container and a lid having a feed chute communicable to the interior of the receptacle when mounted on the container, and a rotary treating element rotatable within the receptacle together with...     

Whole oriented onions are sliced in a slicer by holding the onions on a horizontal cutter-bearing plate and by rotating the plate to continuously remove slices from the lower ends of the onions until the onions are fully sliced. Non-oriented onions are recirculated between a feed hopper and the conveyor...     

In a food processor cutter blade on a disc rotated by a central shaft with the disc having a single rectangular locking-edged opening therethrough on one side only of the disc center with the opening terminating short of the disc center, a narrow slot is provided centrally of the opening and extends...     

An adjustable slicing blade assembly comprises basically a slicing or spacer disk having a centrally disposed circular opening, a cylindrical flange extending from the under side of the spacer disk and surrounding the circular opening, and a rotatable shaft axially movable within the cylindrical flange...     

A wood chipper embodying a pair of adjacent discs mounted in face-to-fact relation on a drive shaft for rotation therewith. The discs are secured to each other and have angularly spaced aligned passageways therethrough. A recess is provided in one disc at the trailing side of each angularly spaced passageway,...     

A chipper having improved means for separating debris from chips is formed by extending the chip slots radially outward beyond the effective cutting length of the knives and is provided with passage means to direct debris from within the chip slots into a front chamber on the infeed side of the disc....     

A rotatable carrier element has a plurality of elongate slots opening out from a work surface thereof with cutter knives projecting from the slots for slicing wafers off pieces of wood bearing against the work surface with the sides and the grain of the pieces extending substantially parallel to the...     

A rotatable carrier has a plurality of cutter knives protruding from a work face thereof. A feed passage is positioned to direct longitudinal sides of wood pieces against the carrier face to enable the knives to slice wafers from the pieces during rotation of the carrier. The feed passage is defined...     

A knife assembly for use in a chopping apparatus of the type having a rotatable disc and an opening therethrough to permit passage of the chopped material through and away from the disc. The assembly comprises a pair of knife holding means for engaging a reversible knife with two cutting edges. One of...     

A rotatable cutting blade assembly for a food processor having an annular flange intended to fit closely in a circular container of a food processor, the flange having in it an aperture above which a blade is mounted, a screw-threaded arrangement being provided whereby the axial distance between the...     

Whole oriented items, such as onions, are sliced in a slicer by holding the items on a horizontal cutter-bearing plate and by rotating the plate to continuously remove slices from the lower ends of the items until they are fully sliced. The holding device include a box-like trap and cylinder-operated...     

A tree is received on a guide and fed toward a rotating disc by a feed roller carried by an arm. The arm pivots to increase the force with which the feed roller engages the tree as the resistance to feeding the tree into the rotating disc increases. Wood chips are cut from the tree by a blade on the...     

A julienne cutter is provided having a hub removably engageable with the drive of a food processor and a disc-like member secured to the hub. The disc-like member has an opening extending from a region near the hub to a region near the periphery and there is an elevated portion on the member located...     

A kitchen apparatus for treating food wherein the rotary tools of the apparatus are stored in the casing which houses the motor of the apparatus and wherein the tools comprise flat disks and are connectable to the shaft of the motor via a carrier.

A cutter wheel for a brush chipper or the like has a support plate generally centered on, extending perpendicular to, and rotatable in a predetermined rotational sense about a central support axis. This plate is formed with a plurality of slots angularly equispaced about and radially equispaced from...     

An electric food cutting machine which includes a main body, an electric motor and a container mounted on the main body, a disc-shaped cutter in the container rotatively driven by the motor for cutting cut pieces from a food object to be cut, and a disc member positioned in the container below the cutter...     

The comminuting apparatus for waste consists of a housing (1), which is circular in cross-section and defines an upright feed hopper accessible from above and which has a bottom (2) as a lower termination of the interior of the housing. Disposed in the vicinity of the bottom is a discharge opening (12)...     

An assembly for use with a food processor and adapted to permit processing of large food items, the assembly including a tubular member mountable on the open end of the processor bowl and provided with an inwardly directed wall terminating in a boss.

A wood chipping assembly having a discharge chute that includes a directional flap such that, depending upon the position of the flap, the wood chips and the residual material generated by the wood chipping assembly may be commingled or they may be maintained in separate chutes so as to be individually...     

A food processor having many good practical effects. A cover put on a food processor body detachably is provided with a larger-diameter inlet port, into which the food to be cut having a large diameter can be inserted without any trouble of cutting it into smaller pieces beforehand, in addition to a...     

A motor driven slicing machine for potatoes and the like is disclosed. The machine includes a circular fly wheel with a blade thereon which rotates across an exit port. Potatoes enter a feed tube at an entrance port and wedge against an outwardly tapered wall at the exit port so as the potato is sliced...     

A comminuting apparatus for garden waste consists of a cutter support plate rotating about a vertical axis in a cutter housing provided with a laterally directed outlet channel. The support plate includes cutting slots and slicing cutters thereabove. The support plate further includes at least one dependent...     

Wooden logs are chipped by alternating forward feed of the log towards a cutting device, to obtain cutting and retracting the log from the cutting device, either as instigated manually or when the cutter speed drops below a predetermined value.

A cutting device for cutting a vegetable and the like including a cup-shaped lower housing, an inverted cup-shaped upper housing with a connecting apparatus for connecting these housings, a cutter disk arranged in the lower housing, and a fixing apparatus attached to the lower housing. These housings,...     

An improved wood processing apparatus which prevents clogging or fouling of the apparatus by providing a clear opening in the base of the apparatus for the passage of the pieces once cut, this area directing the pieces by gravity away from the drive mechanism. Additionally, the fully enclosed nature...     

A chipper knife includes a pair of elongate blade portions integrally joined at a midplane which longitudinally bisects the blade. The blade portions are symmetrical and have inner and outer surfaces. The outer surface intersects the midplane at an acute angle and the inner surface intersects the midplane...     

A food processor wherein a shaft which extends into the interior of a bowl is driven by an electric motor employs a whipping tool having a hub which receives torque from the shaft, either directly or through the medium of an adapter, and a disc-shaped portion. The underside of the disc-shaped portion...     

A fruit shredding apparatus comprises fruit shredding means for shredding fruits, and fruit conveying and pressing means for conveying and pressing the fruits toward the fruit shredding means. The fruit shredding means in turn comprises a generally planar cutting disc that has a plurality of cutting...     

A protector for a feed tube of a food processor comprises a feed tube protector hingedly mounted to a bowl cover by means of elongated hinge members such that the feed tube protector can be pivotally moved between a closed position over the feed tube and an opened position retracted from the feed tube....     

A waferizing apparatus having a rotatable disc. There are knife carriers mounted on the disc with spaced openings between the carriers. Openings in the disc correspond to the openings in the carrier and there is a knife associated with each opening. A knife clamp is bolted to the carrier to clamp each...     

An improved electric food processor which may be mainly used at home in general for slicing, cutting into small pieces or shredding vegetables and the like. The food processor is arranged to be capable of charging and cutting materials of a size up to a diameter of its container having a discharge passage...     

A device for use in choppers with a rotating chopper disk (10, 10a) having one or more knives attached to knife holders disposed radially on the chopper disk, which knife holders consist of a filler piece (18, 18a) fitting into a recess (14, 14a) in the chopper disk (10, 10a). The filler piece incorporates...     

A device for shaving ice for making snow cones which includes an elongated housing, a base for supporting the housing upon a suitable platform, a pair of castings with one casting being stationarily mounted in the housing and the other one rotatably mounted therein, the rotatably mounted casting having...     

The specification describes a stump chipping disintegrator wherein stumps are received in a trough having a rotatable chipping disc at one end and a powered ram plate at the other, the ram plate having diagonally extending penetrators. A stump stabilizer anvil adjacent the disc projects radially inwardly...     

A food processor wherein the output member of the prime mover extends vertically upwardly into a removable bowl and drives a rotary torque transmitting member having at its upper end a set of teeth arranged to mate with the teeth of a gear provided in a rotary juice extractor which is installed in a...     

A wood chipper for chipping wood, such as logs, into particles, has a chipping block rotatably mounted in a housing on a shaft, which in turn is mounted to a housing through bearings. Seals protect the bearings from dirt and moisture. The seals on an inlet side of the chipper block are protected by a...     

Chipper apparatus including a rotating disc with one or more knives mounted on the disc operable to produce wood chips under the cutting action of the knives. Each knife comprises an elongate knife body bounded by opposed cutting edges. The knife includes a back side formed by back knife surfaces extending...     

A comminuting device for commercial or industrial waste in the form of paper, plastics and the like comprising a downward feeding hopper, having a rotary cutting mechanism associated with a bottom discharge opening and a crushing and conveying tool above and rotating with the rotor has the discharge...     

The invention is directed to a food processing apparatus (2) having a lid (22) adapted to be placed on a vessel (10), with a cover member (26) of semi-circular cross section and having a passage (24) opening into the vessel (10) being provided on the lid. The cover member (26) is provided with a vertically...     

A cutting device for cutting a vegetable and the like including a cup-shaped lower housing, an inverted cup-shaped upper housing with a connecting apparatus for connecting these housings, a cutter disk arranged in the lower housing, and a fixing apparatus attached to the lower housing. These housings,...     

An improved operating interlock is included in a food processor having a drive motor and a control switch which must be operated by the interlock to enable the operation of the drive motor. A shaft projects upwardly through a working bowl of the food processor and is coupled to the drive motor for rotation...     

Chipper apparatus including a rotating disc with one or more knives mounted on the disc operable to produce wood chips under the cutting action of the knives. Each knife comprises an elongate knife body bounded by opposed cutting edges. The knife includes a back side formed back knife surfaces extending...     

A garden chopping/shredding apparatus has a frame provided with an upwardly open intake hopper on the frame having a lower end in which is in turn provided a generally horizontal blade plate and formed about the axis with a plurality of angularly spaced apertures. Respective flat blades carried on the...     

A wood chipper is disclosed comprising a large rotational disc with a pattern of blade mounting pockets, usually in a spiral, on the front face, such that mounted chipping knives project diagonally from the face of the disc at an acute angle to the disc, with chip passage slots extending through the...     

A knife assembly for a wood chipper has a cassette, a top blade holder, and a trapezoidal cross-section double-edge blade. The cassette is of profiled cross-section, with a full-width proximal section, a stepped-down blade holder support surface on an intermediate section, and a blade support surface...     

A food processor includes a main body with a graspable handle. A drive motor in the main body drives a shaft that projects up into a container and a rotor on the shaft processes food in the vessel. A cover removably disposed on the container is rotatable between an unlocked and a lockable position. An...     

A food processor includes a main body with a graspable handle. A base plate is disposed in the main body. The base plate has a peripheral wall for defining a chamber. The peripheral wall has a discharge cutout along one circumferential part. A cover is removably placed over the base plate. A rotary blade...     

A horizontal disk wood flaking machine has two or more continuous feed conveyors each of which has a vertical chute or feed box that brings wooden logs to an upper surface of the cutting disk. The drive motor for the disk is situated below the disk at the under side of the machine, so that the power...     

A chipper knife blade assembly for a rotary disk chipper has first and second flat knife blades of substantially identical construction, with one of the blades serving as a chipper blade and the other serving as a counterknife supporting the chipper blade. The counterknife is seated on a sloping support...     

A combined saw and chipper head comprises a frustoconical body having a circular saw blade mounted on smaller face. A plurality of straight-edged knives are mounted on truncated face of body with corner of each knife positioned in a gullet between a pair of teeth.

A chopping- and slicing machine for the crushing of bulky, hard or soft materials whereby these might also be dirtied by soil and stones. The machine has a system of blades that has sharp cutting blades in one direction of course and blunt cutting blades in the other direction of course.

A double-edged knife detachably mounted on a counter knife. The knife overlies surfaces inclined and oriented so that when the knife is clamped in place, it is held well rearwardly an edge in the knife which is exposed for cutting. Fasteners hold the counter knife and these are protected from damage...     

A chip slicer for slicing wood chips such as for use in a pulp preparation procedure with an annular housing having knives therein and a rotor therein with anvil means for carrying wood chips against the knives with a shaft extending coaxially for diving the rotor, a driving hub mounted on the shaft...     

A drum-type wood chipper having a chipper drum with knives mounted in openings with the drum wall. A chip basket is mounted within the drum behind each knife opening. The chipper knife is spaced from the drum wall at both the leading and trailing edges of the knife to define chip ingress and egress openings...     

A readily portable apparatus for the size reduction of vegetable and cellulosic material is disclosed. A first shredding means having a plurality of knives is coaxially disposed with an impellar. After contacting the shredding knives the impeller directs the partially shredded material to a contacting...     

An improved safety interlock is provided for operating a control switch which enables operator activation of a drive motor of a food processor. The safety interlock comprises an axially movable interlock rod for operating the control switch upon movement of the rod in a first direction. A coil spring...     

The invention pertains to the conversion of rotating disc type wood chippers into a multi-purpose shredding device. Such wood chippers are typically equipped with a power driven rotating disc fitted with chipping knives mounted to the disc feed side and adjacent passageways thereto leading to the opposite...     

A chipper knife assembly for a stump disintegrator is disclosed in which knife holder bodies radially span across pockets or openings formed in a rotating chipper disk. A reversible and replaceable blade insert with a plurality of selectable carbide edges is carried on the leading face of the holder...     

In a wood chipping machine having a rotating cutter disk, a wood chip separator comprising a plurality of fins attached to the back of the cutter disk, near the perimeter, for deflecting wood chips axially away from the cutter disk to minimize the cross over of wood chips to the infeed side of the cutter...     

A poultry pulverizer comprises a portable framework with a vertically oriented hopper secured thereto having an open top end and a lower end. A horizontally disposed shear wheel is positioned at the lower end of the hopper where it forms a bottom wall. The shear wheel has a downwardly extending vertical...     

A mulcher for shredding leaves and other vegetation having a plurality of pivoted plastic cutting blades. The material being shredded is introduced into an upper hopper having a plurality of spaced baffle plates. The hub supporting the cutting blades includes fan bldes for generating a flow through the...     

A mechanized disc flaker for producing curled wood flakes having a rotatable disc plate, and one or more cutting knives mounted to the disc plate so as to provide for a slight "rake angle" defined in accordance with the invention as the angle made between the tool face and a plane perpendicular to the...     

A brush/wood chipper having a small diameter pressing feed cylinder adjacent and parallel to an anvil which is generally perpendicular to the feed disc, the cylinder also being adjacent the chipping disc. This feed cylinder is in an infeed chute, and presses the branches, twigs or other wood against...     

A chipper for cutting uniform chips from a log has a sliver ring mounted on the rotary disc radially outside the cutting blade assemblies, and also has cooperating arcuate wrapper member and special sliver bedknife mounted on the front plate of the chipper housing. The wrapper member is concentric with...     

A cutting device for a chipper used in cutting up garden waste, such as branches, foliage, grass or the like, includes a rotatable cutter disk cooperating with a stationary counter knife located within a cutter housing. The counter knife extends across the cutter disk in a bridge-like manner. A counter...     

A juicer/mixer includes an actuating device for providing electrical power to a rotating shaft thereon, to which a squeezing housing device is engaged, thus allowing food to be processed in the squeezing housing device. Food is milled in the squeezing housing device and, after double filtering, juice...     

An apparatus for shredding debris from lawns and trees, such as twigs, leaves and like material has a housing in which a rotor is rotatably mounted about an upright axis. The plane of the rotor is thus generally horizontal and supported on a frame which permits movement across the ground. A vertical...     

The invention is a center fed hammer mill having a base plate, one or more intermediate plates having a central opening or hole, the intermediate plates being held together in fixed relative position by pins running through the outer edge of the intermediate plates, one or more hammers attached to the...     

The invention is directed to an electrically powered food processing apparatus for processing and preparing any type of food, receiving in a housing (1) an electric motor (8) rotating a processing tool located in a working vessel for processing the food material. The electric motor (8) is supplied with...     

A cylindrical housing having a lid is releasably mounted relative to the lid, with the housing having its axis in a parallel orientation and the lid having a support plate mounting plural pairs of legs that each are of a breakdown construction and employ anchor plugs at their lowermost distal ends for...     

A chipper/shredder having rotatably driven shredding mechanism including a frame rotatable about a central axis, which frame has a plurality of axially spaced disc-shaped supports mounted thereon for rotation therewith and a plurality of carriers extending between and secured to the supports at a radius...     

A knife blade clamp for a Carthage-Norman type of log chipper and having a substantially right triangular cross-sectional contour having an upper face, back face and hypotenuse surface, is provided with a series of slots on its back face. The slots communicate between an elongated depression on the back...     

A food fryer and processor for solid food, such as potatoes, and having a rotatable blade and a rotatable paddle for cutting the food product into segments and ejecting the segments into an adjacent perforated basket within a receptacle having hot oil therein for frying the food product. Several types...     

A hand-driven food slicer which includes a gear box with a shaft extending from it and within the gear box there is a driven gear and a driving gear, the driven gear being adapted to rotate a slicing mechanism in a housing atop the device which has a charging opening and an exit opening and slicer includes...     

A receptacle for cutting and chopping machines having a central circular feed opening with four circular lateral openings that partially overlap the circular feed opening. The four circular openings are grouped in two pairs of two opposed openings each around the central, circular fee opening.

A wood chipping apparatus which includes a substantially closed chipping area for capturing and chipping slivers. The chipping apparatus includes a rotating cutting disk and a first anvil whereby most wood is chipped. Wood that is chipped passes through slots in the cutting disk to the discharge side...     

Methods for producing a chipped wood surfacing material having unusually high shock absorbing capabilities are provided. The chipped wood is processed in order to give it a very high shock absorbing quality. This invention also relates to chipped wood having these unusually high shock absorbing characteristics.

A grinder for dry waste materials includes a vertically-oriented, cylindrically-shaped housing having an opening at its upper end for receiving materials to be comminuted. The shredder element has upwardly-extending impeller blades disposed on its upper surface. The outer perimeter of the shredder element...     

A chipper employs a rotary cutting disk with a plurality of radial knife assemblies. Each knife assembly has a reversible blade of generally trapezoidal cross section. The assembly has a knife holder and a knife clamp that sandwich the blade between them. An elongated load bar is seated in a recess in...