Claims
- 1. In a method of constructing a food processor of the type including a housing containing an electric motor drive and control means in said housing for rendering said motor drive inoperative unless said control means is actuated, a bowl mountable on said housing for enclosing a rotatable tool within said bowl driveable by a tool drive shaft when said motor drive is rendered operative by actuation of said control means, a removable cover adapted to be locked on said bowl, with a feed tube mounted on said cover forming a passageway for pushing food items toward the rotating tool, the novel safety method of constructing the food processor comprising the steps of:
- providing an outer sleeve nestable in predetermined position around the exterior of said feed tube;
- capturing said food pusher in telescoping relationship with respect to said outer sleeve for enabling said food pusher to be moved longitudinally within said outer sleeve;
- positioning said captured food pusher in alignment with the interior of said outer sleeve for causing said food pusher to become aligned with said food passageway and to be plungeable into said food passageway only when said outer sleeve is nested around said feed tube; and
- allowing actuation of said control means in the food processor only when said outer sleeve is properly nested in said predetermined position around said feed tube;
- thereby inherently causing said food pusher to be blocking access through said passageway into the bowl whenever the motor drive is actuated for rotating the food processing tool in the bowl.
- 2. The novel safety method of constructing the food processor as claimed in claim 1, in which:
- actuation of said control means in the food processor is allowed only when said outer sleeve is nested down fully around said feed tube.
RELATED APPLICATIONS
The present application is a division of prior copending application, Ser. No. 017,822, filed Mar. 5, 1979, and issued as U.S. Pat. No. 4,226,373 on Oct. 7, 1980.
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Divisions (1)
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