CUTTING DEVICE FOR A KITCHEN UTENSIL

Abstract

A cutting device for insertion into a pot of an electric kitchen appliance includes a lid configured to be installed on the pot, and which has a feed opening. The cutting device includes a drivable cutting disk which, in the installed state, is rotated underneath the feed opening, and an adapter having an adaption interface for a mixing knife disposed in a bottom region of the pot. The mixing knife, during operation, causes the adapter to rotate, wherein the adapter further has a shaft which, in a state of the cutting device having been inserted into the pot, extends centrally in the direction towards the lid, and which is configured for contacting the cutting disk and for transmitting the rotation of the adapter onto the cutting disk during operation. A free end of the adapter shaft is supported in a sliding manner in the lid during operation.

Claims

1. A cutting device for insertion into a pot of an electric kitchen appliance, comprising: a lid, configured to be installed on the pot of the electric kitchen appliance, and which has a feed opening, a drivable cutting disk, in an installed state, is configured to be rotated underneath the feed opening, and an adapter comprising an adaption interface for a mixing knife disposed in a bottom region of the pot of the kitchen appliance, wherein the mixing knife, during the operation of the kitchen appliance, causes the adapter to rotate, wherein the adapter further has a shaft which, in an inserted state of the cutting device having been inserted into the pot, extends centrally in the direction towards the lid, and which is configured for contacting the cutting disk and for transmitting the rotation of the adapter onto the cutting disk during the operation of the kitchen appliance, wherein a free end of the shaft of the adapter is supported in a sliding manner in the lid during the operation of the kitchen appliance.

2. The cutting device according to claim 1, wherein the adapter, in the installed state, covers the mixing knife of the kitchen appliance.

3. The cutting device according to claim 1, wherein the adaption interface has at least two contact surfaces between which the mixing knife of the kitchen appliance extends in the installed state.

4. The cutting device according to claim 1, wherein in the installed state, cutting material collects in the pot between the adapter and the cutting disk during cutting.

5. The cutting device according to claim 4, wherein the collected cutting material rests on a collecting section of the adapter and rotates with the adapter.

6. The cutting device according to claim 1, wherein a central opening for receiving a free end of a drive shaft of the kitchen appliance is provided.

7. The cutting device according to claim 6, wherein the central opening is surrounded by the shaft extending in the direction towards the lid and is closed towards the lid.

8. The cutting device according to claim 1, wherein the collecting section is configured to be circular with a diameter such that, in the inserted state, an outer edge of the collecting section contacts an inner wall of the pot.

9. The cutting device according to claim 1, further comprising a positioning aid visible to a user and facing towards the lid, which in the installed state is in alignment with the mixing knife of the kitchen appliance.

10. The cutting device according to claim 1, wherein a feeding aid is provided such that cutting material is configured to be pressed from above through the feed opening onto the cutting disk.

11. A kitchen appliance, comprising a pot and a rotatable mixing knife disposed in a bottom region of the pot, wherein a cutting device is configured in accordance with claim 1, wherein the mixing knife causes the adapter of the cutting device to rotate in the installed state and during operation of the kitchen appliance.

12. The kitchen appliance according to claim 11, wherein the mixing knife extends between two of the contact surfaces associated with the adaption interface of the adapter.

13. The kitchen appliance according to claim 10, wherein a drive shaft with a free end, on which a central opening of the cutting device is placed.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0026] Other advantages and features of the disclosure become apparent from the following description of exemplary embodiments of the disclosure, which shall be understood not to be limiting and which will be explained below with reference to the drawing. In this drawing, the Figures schematically show:

[0027] FIG. 1 a exploded perspective view of an exemplary embodiment of a cutting device according to the disclosure in a synopsis with an exemplary embodiment of a kitchen appliance according to the disclosure,

[0028] FIG. 2 a sectional view of the cutting device and the kitchen appliance of FIG. 1,

[0029] FIG. 3 an oblique perspective view from above onto the cutting device of FIG. 1,

[0030] FIG. 4 an oblique perspective view from below onto the cutting device of FIG. 1,

[0031] FIG. 5 a bottom view of the cutting device of FIG. 1,

[0032] FIG. 6 a perspective view from above onto an exemplary embodiment of an adapter of the cutting device of FIG. 1, and

[0033] FIG. 7 a side view of the adapter of FIG. 6.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0034] In the various figures, parts that are equivalent with respect to their function are always provided with the same reference numerals, so that they are also only described once, as a rule.

[0035] A preferred exemplary embodiment of the disclosure is illustrated in the attached Figures. FIGS. 1 and 2 show an exemplary embodiment according to the disclosure of a cutting device 20 in a synopsis with an exemplary embodiment of a kitchen appliance 30 according to the disclosure, with which the cutting device 30 can be used. Visible is a mixing knife 40 disposed within a pot 50 in the bottom region of the kitchen appliance 30.

[0036] The cutting device 20 has an adapter 60 with a shaft 70, a cutting disk 80 and a lid 90 with a feed opening 100. By means of a feeding aid 110, the material to be cut can preferably be pressed from above onto the cutting disk 80. The cutting material can collect on a collecting section 160 of the adapter 60. The collecting section 160 rotates with the adapter 60. The lid 90 is configured so that it can be separated from the adapter 60. In the exemplary embodiment shown, the free end 75 of the shaft 70 has a polygonal portion for torque transmission, which extends into a corresponding opening of the also detachable cutting disk 80.

[0037] With respect to a bottom surface facing towards the lid 90, the shaft 70 extends centrally towards the lid 90.

[0038] FIGS. 3 and 5 show the cutting device 20 in different views (FIG. 3 in a perspective view from above, FIG. 4 in a perspective view from below, FIG. 5 from below). FIGS. 6 and 7 only show the adapter 60.

[0039] Particularly FIG. 4 shows a central opening 120 for receiving the free end of a drive shaft 120 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. The opening 120 is surrounded by the shaft 70.

[0040] In FIG. 4, the cutting device 20 can be seen from below. What is shown is, in particular, the centrally disposed opening 120 or receiving portion for the free end of the drive shaft 130 and the contact surfaces 140 for the radially extending cutting tools 45 of the mixing knife 40 (see FIGS. 1 and 2). Of the exemplary eight contact surfaces shown in FIG. 4, only one is labeled with 140. The cutting tools 140 of the mixing knife 40 each extend between two contact surfaces 130, so that an operation in both directions of rotation is possible.

[0041] A positioning aid 150, which is arranged on the adapter 60 and visible to the user from above, is apparent in FIGS. 3 and 6. The adapter 60 is supposed to be installable on a mixing knife located on the bottom of the pot of the electric kitchen appliance 30, in such a way that it is in alignment with the positioning aid 150. This considerably simplifies the proper insertion of the cutting device 20.

[0042] The exemplary embodiment shown in the Figures is to be understood only as an example and may also be configured differently. In particular, the cutting device according to the disclosure and the kitchen appliance disclosed herein are not limited to the specific embodiments respectively described herein, but also include further embodiments having the same effects, which result from technically viable other combinations of the features of all subject matters described herein. The features and combinations of features mentioned above in the general description and the description of the Figures and/or shown in the Figures alone can be used not only in the combinations explicitly specified herein, but also in other combinations or on their own, without departing from the scope of the present disclosure.