摘要 |
This invention relates to food processor arrangements, of the kind in which the food processor is fitted with a cutter plate located just beneath the lid of its bowl and close to a feed-tube entry through the lid, and the cutter plate, which is in the form of a disc carrying a blade, is rotated rapidly by means of an electric motor. In order to provide such food processors with the adaptability to chop or slice foodstuffs into differently sized pieces whilst mitigating the storage requirements for multiple cutter plates with different blade configurations, the invention provides an arrangement (10) in which individual cutter plates (12a) are made in sections (42, 44) which can be opened out to form complete cutter plates and re-positioned and overlain for compact storage. In preferred embodiments, each cutter plate (12a) comprises two generally semi-circular sections (42, 44) with co-operating central portions (48, 62) allowing the two sections to form a complete cutter plate (12a) or to be axially moved and rotated relative to one another so that one section (44) overlies the other (42), In some particularly preferred embodiments of the invention, the central portions (48, 62) of the two sections (42, 44) of the cutter plate (12a) are provided with co-operative adjustable components whereby the height of the blade (40a) above the section which carries it can be adjusted so as to provide several cutting heights with one cutter plate (12a). |