CN109567543B

CN109567543B - Food processor

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Publication number: CN109567543B
Application number: CN201710898722.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 张义军; 刘云祥; 熊秋亮; 徐俊男; 唐燕
Original assignee: Guangdong Midea Life Electric Manufacturing Co Ltd
Current assignee: Guangdong Midea Life Electric Manufacturing Co Ltd
Priority date: 2017-09-28
Filing date: 2017-09-28
Publication date: 2020-12-15
Anticipated expiration: 2037-09-28
Also published as: CN109567543A

Abstract

The present invention provides a food processor comprising: the host machine component comprises a driving device; the food processing cup can be arranged on the main machine component and comprises a crushing cup and a crushing screw rod which is arranged in the crushing cup and is in driving connection with the driving device; the upper cover comprises a cover plate covered on the crushing cup and a feeding cylinder arranged on the cover plate and extending in the direction far away from the crushing cup, and a feeding channel penetrating through the cover plate is arranged on the feeding cylinder; the cutter head assembly is positioned between the crushing cup and the upper cover and is arranged on the crushing screw in a driving way, and a feeding hole is formed in the cutter head assembly corresponding to the feeding channel; the guide cylinder is detachably arranged in the feeding cylinder; wherein the cross-sectional area of the crushing cup decreases from top to bottom, and the cross-sectional area of the crushing screw increases from top to bottom. The food processor can realize juicing treatment of sugarcane and can normally juicing other food materials, so that the functions of products can be expanded to meet more requirements of users.

Description

Food processor

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of household appliances, in particular to a food processor.

Background

At present, openings of feeding cylinders of food processors such as a juice extractor and a juicer are large, and for slender food materials such as sugarcanes, the slender food materials are very easy to incline after being thrown into the feeding cylinders, so that the food materials such as the sugarcanes cannot be discharged normally when being juiced, and the juice extractor and the juicer cannot normally finish the juicing of the food materials such as the sugarcanes.

Therefore, how to design a food processor for squeezing food materials such as sugar cane is a problem to be solved urgently.

Disclosure of Invention

The present invention is directed to solving at least one of the problems of the prior art.

To this end, it is an object of the present invention to provide a food processor including the above-described cutterhead assembly.

To achieve the above object, a first aspect of the present invention provides a food processor, including: a host assembly including a drive device; the food processing cup can be arranged on the main machine component and comprises a crushing cup and a crushing screw rod arranged in the crushing cup, and the crushing screw rod is in driving connection with the driving device; the upper cover comprises a cover plate and a feeding cylinder, the cover plate can be covered on the crushing cup, the feeding cylinder is arranged on the cover plate and extends in the direction far away from the crushing cup, and a feeding channel penetrating through the cover plate is arranged on the feeding cylinder; the cutter head assembly is positioned between the crushing cup and the upper cover and is arranged on the crushing screw in a driving way, and a feeding hole is formed in the cutter head assembly corresponding to the feeding channel; the guide cylinder is detachably arranged in the feeding cylinder; wherein the cross-sectional area of the grinding cup decreases from the open end of the grinding cup to the bottom of the grinding cup, and the cross-sectional area of the grinding screw increases from near the open end of the grinding cup to the bottom of the grinding cup.

According to the food processor provided by the embodiment of the invention, the upper cover is used for feeding, and the guide cylinder is used for guiding the feeding direction of food such as sugarcane when juice of the food such as the sugarcane is extracted, so that the food such as the sugarcane is prevented from deflecting in the feeding cylinder and being incapable of being cut by the cutter head assembly. And lead a positive section of thick bamboo through setting up for in the edible material such as sugarcane enters into a feed cylinder after, can just set up the feed inlet to cutterhead assembly, thereby make the sugarcane can be according to the feeding direction downfeed that designs in advance, specifically, can make edible material such as sugarcane enter into a feed cylinder in after, can vertical downfeed, thereby make edible material such as sugarcane put into in a feed cylinder cut gradually into the segment by rotatory cutterhead assembly, and enter into in the food processing cup. This kind of setting leads a positive section of thick bamboo through setting up and can prevent food such as sugarcane skew in a feeding section of thick bamboo, therefore makes edible material such as sugarcane can normally feed, then in falling the crushing cup, therefore can realize the normal juice of sugarcane. Meanwhile, when other food materials such as sugar cane and apples are squeezed, the guide cylinder can be taken down to squeeze juice of normal food materials. The food processor can realize juicing treatment of sugarcane and can normally juicing other food materials, so that the functions of products can be expanded to meet more requirements of users.

Wherein, the cross-sectional area of smashing the cup reduces from the open end of smashing the cup to the bottom of smashing the cup, and the cross-sectional area of smashing the screw increases from the open end that is close to smashing the cup to the bottom of smashing the cup, can make the clearance between smashing cup and the crushing screw reduce from the opening of smashing the cup to the bottom of smashing the cup gradually, therefore can increase the extrusion pressure degree to the edible material in proper order to can extrude the edible material more garrulous, therefore can improve juice rate.

In addition, the food processor provided according to the above embodiment of the present invention has the following additional technical features:

in any of the above technical solutions, preferably, the food processor further includes: the two ends of the feeding cup are open and are hollow, and the feeding cup can be rotatably arranged in one end of the feeding cylinder, which is far away from the cover plate; the aperture of the opening at the first end of the feeding cup is smaller than the aperture of the opening at the second end of the feeding cup.

In these technical scheme, throw the material cup through the setting, can throw into less edible material, direct tip through throwing the material cup is thrown in, and when throwing in great edible material, can throw in edible material in throwing the material cup earlier, then the material cup is thrown in the rotation, in order to pour edible material into throwing the feed cylinder, this kind of setting, can throw in not edible material of equidimension, therefore make the product can handle the edible material piece of various sizes, and simultaneously, this kind of setting can also reduce the opening size of throwing the feed cylinder through throwing the tip of material cup when not throwing the material, in preventing that the user directly stretches into the feed cylinder with the hand, thereby can reduce the potential safety hazard of product, and then make the product can satisfy relevant industrial standard.

In any of the above technical solutions, preferably, the food processor further includes: the fixed ring is arranged on the feeding cylinder, and the feeding cup is rotationally arranged on the feeding cylinder through the fixed ring.

In these technical scheme, can set up a retainer plate on the feed cylinder to come the simple fixed of realizing throwing the material cup fast through the retainer plate.

Preferably, the opening of the first end of the feeding cup is circular, and the diameter D of the opening of the first end of the feeding cup is less than or equal to 45 mm. The feed inlet can be arranged to be maximized, and the size of the actual feed inlet of the food processor is reduced, so that the product can meet the standards of related industries.

In any of the above technical solutions, preferably, a plurality of positioning ribs are arranged on an outer side wall of the correcting cylinder, and the plurality of positioning ribs are arranged at intervals along a circumferential direction of the correcting cylinder; the inner side wall of the feeding cylinder is provided with a plurality of positioning grooves, and the guide cylinder is detachably installed in the feeding cylinder through the matching of the positioning ribs and the positioning grooves.

In these technical scheme, the cooperation of accessible location muscle and constant head tank will lead a fixed mounting in the feed cylinder, and this kind of cooperation that sets up location muscle and constant head tank can also carry on spacingly to the rotational degree of freedom that leads a positive section of thick bamboo, and then can prevent to lead a positive section of thick bamboo at the feed cylinder internal rotation, and then can improve the stability of leading a positive section of thick bamboo installation.

In any of the above technical solutions, preferably, the positioning rib is parallel to an axis of the correcting cylinder; and/or a plurality of positioning ribs are symmetrically distributed on the correcting cylinder.

In these technical scheme, the location muscle is parallel with the axis of leading just a section of thick bamboo, that is to say the location muscle is vertical setting on leading just a section of thick bamboo, and this kind of setting can make the length of location muscle shorter, therefore can reduce product cost. Of course, the positioning rib can also be arranged on the guide cylinder in an inclined way from top to bottom. And a plurality of location muscle on leading just section of thick bamboo symmetric distribution can make leading just section of thick bamboo and form the axisymmetrical structure, therefore can make the structure of leading just section of thick bamboo simpler, therefore better processing.

In any one of the above technical solutions, preferably, an inclined material guide plate is arranged on the pulverizing screw, the middle of the inclined material guide plate is installed on a screw shaft of the pulverizing screw, two ends of the inclined material guide plate are installed to the cutter head assembly, and the inclined material guide plate extends obliquely from the cutter head assembly to a direction away from the feed port.

In these technical scheme, can be on smashing the screw rod, the below slope of blade disc subassembly sets up an slope stock guide to can utilize this slope stock guide to guide the edible material that falls into in smashing the cup from the feed inlet on the one hand, to prevent to eat material and fall into to smash the cup back four scattering from the feed inlet, and then just can guide the accurate region of smashing the screw rod with the edible material that falls into in smashing the cup from the feed inlet, take place in order to prevent to eat the condition that the material piles up on smashing the terminal surface of screw rod etc.. On the other hand, the pulverizing screw can be mounted to the cutter head assembly again by tilting the deflector, so that the reliability of connection between the cutter head assembly and the pulverizing screw can be improved.

Wherein, preferably, both ends of the inclined guide plate are mounted to the cutter head assembly through a plurality of screws or a plurality of bolts.

In these technical schemes, the both ends of slope stock guide are installed to the cutter head assembly through a plurality of screws or bolts, on the one hand can simply realize the installation between slope stock guide and the cutter head assembly fast, therefore can reduce the cost of product, and on the other hand screw connection and bolted connection are more firm, therefore can ensure the joint strength between slope stock guide and the cutter head assembly. In addition, the inclined guide plates can be easily detached from the cutter head assembly through screw connection, so that the replacement, maintenance and cleaning of the inclined guide plates and the cutter head assembly are facilitated.

In the above technical solutions, preferably, the food processing cup further includes: the extrusion cup is connected with the crushing cup, and an extrusion screw is arranged in the extrusion cup; wherein, drive arrangement includes first drive shaft and second drive shaft, first drive shaft with smash the screw drive and be connected, be used for the drive smash the screw and smash edible material, the second drive shaft with the extrusion screw drive is connected, is used for the drive the extrusion screw extrudes edible material so that edible material juice sediment separation.

In the technical schemes, after the food materials enter the crushing cup, the crushing screw rod is matched with the side wall of the crushing cup under the driving of the first driving shaft so as to crush the food materials, the crushed food materials enter the extrusion cup under the action of the crushing screw rod, and the extrusion screw rod extrudes the food materials under the driving of the second driving shaft so as to separate juice and dregs of the food materials. This technical scheme is with the crushing process and the crowded juice slag removal process of edible material separately go on, and at crushing in-process, owing to need not crowded juice row sediment, therefore, parts such as filter screen and rotatory brush need not be set up in the crushing cup, thereby make the edible material in the crushing cup can be smashed under the combined action of crushing cup and crushing screw, simultaneously can be with the roughly level setting of extrusion screw at crowded juice row sediment in-process, can set the crowded juice slag removal system into horizontal, thereby can be very convenient for with the juice sediment separation of food, the juice rate of food processor can be ensured on the one hand in this kind of setting, on the other hand can avoid using the filter screen, spare parts such as rotatory brush, thereby make food processor's simple structure and easily installation, simultaneously because cancelled the filter screen, therefore can reduce user's washing difficulty, and then can promote user experience.

In any of the above technical solutions, preferably, an included angle between the axis of the squeezing cup and the axis of the pulverizing cup is greater than or equal to 75 ° and less than or equal to 180 °, or an included angle between the axis of the squeezing cup and the axis of the pulverizing cup is greater than or equal to 90 ° and less than or equal to 135 °.

In the technical scheme, an included angle can be arranged between the extruding cup and the crushing cup as long as the food materials can enter the crushing cup from the extruding cup, wherein, preferably, an included angle which is more than or equal to 90 degrees and less than or equal to 135 degrees is formed between the axis of the extruding cup and the axis of the crushing cup, namely, the extruding cup is horizontally or obliquely arranged downwards, so that the food materials can flow into the extruding cup or flow to a slag outlet in the extruding cup without overcoming the gravity of the food materials at least, and further the flow of the food materials is smoother, further, an included angle which is more than 90 degrees and less than or equal to 135 degrees is formed between the axis of the extruding cup and the axis of the crushing cup, and the food materials can flow out by the extrusion force of the extruding screw, so that the flow rate of the food materials can be accelerated, the juice outlet speed can be improved, and the food materials can be fully extruded, in order to improve juice rate, simultaneously, this kind of setting combines vertical machine and horizontal machine, therefore can make the product both have the effectual advantage of vertical machine crushing, has the abundant advantage of horizontal machine extrusion again, and then can make promptly to eat the material by abundant crushing, can be fully extruded again, and then can improve juice rate.

Wherein, furthermore, the axial line of the extruding cup and the axial line of the crushing cup form an included angle of 90 degrees.

Preferably, an included angle between the axis of the extrusion screw and the axis of the crushing screw is greater than or equal to 75 degrees and less than or equal to 180 degrees, or an included angle between the axis of the extrusion screw and the axis of the crushing screw is greater than or equal to 90 degrees and less than or equal to 135 degrees. This kind of setting can make extrusion cup level or slope set up downwards to eat the material and enter into in the extrusion cup or need not overcome the gravity of eating the material at least when flowing to the slag notch in the extrusion cup, and then make the flow of eating the material more smooth and easy.

Wherein, further, preferably, an included angle of 90 degrees is formed between the axis of the extrusion screw and the axis of the crushing screw.

In any of the above technical solutions, preferably, the food processing cup further includes: the crushing screw is arranged in the cup body; and the filter screen is arranged between the cup body and the crushing screw rod.

In these technical schemes, still can set the food processor to the food processor of single cup single screw rod, at this moment, can set up the filter screen between cup and crushing screw rod to usable crushing screw rod realizes the crushing to eating the material, and after eating the material and smashing, the juice sediment separation of food can be realized to the filter screen.

In a plurality of above technical solutions, preferably, the cutter head assembly includes: the cutter head is positioned between the cover plate and the crushing cup, and the cutter head is provided with the feeding hole and the mounting hole; the connector is arranged in the mounting hole and can be in driving connection with the crushing screw; the cutting knife is arranged on the edge of the feed port of the cutter head; the cutting knife and the cutter head are of an integrated structure, or the cutting knife and the cutter head are of a split structure.

Among these technical scheme, the blade disc subassembly includes the blade disc, connector and cutting sword, and wherein, the cutting sword is used for cutting edible materials such as sugarcane and smashes, and the connector is used for being connected blade disc and crushing screw drive, and this kind of structure is compared in the scheme with blade disc direct mount on crushing screw, and its installation can be simpler, and also makes and to drive the installation better between crushing screw and the blade disc. Simultaneously, this kind of structure is behind installing the cutter head assembly in food processor to can utilize cutting sword to cut stereoplasm material or crude fiber material etc. into crushing cup earlier and crush the screw extrusion after can entering into crushing cup, before crushing screw extrusion, thereby make the material of eating after the cutting of cutting sword can be squeezed crushing by crushing screw easily, thereby make crushing screw can not blocked easily and die, simultaneously, because the material of eating is cut processing into little fragment in advance, therefore the granule of food sediment is also all less, therefore the food sediment can be discharged easily, and can not block up at the slag notch. In addition, since the hard food material, the coarse fiber food material, or the like is cut and processed into small pieces in advance, the food material can be sufficiently squeezed out of the juice by the pulverizing screw in the pulverizing cup, and the juice yield can be improved.

Preferably, the cutting blade and the cutter head are of an integrated structure, so that the strength between the cutting blade and the cutter head can be improved, and the installation stability of the cutting blade is improved. Of course, the cutting knife and the cutter head can be in a split structure, so that the cutting knife and the cutter head can be detached, and the cutting knife can be independently maintained and replaced after being worn, so that the maintenance convenience of the cutter assembly can be improved, and the maintenance cost can be reduced.

In any of the above technical solutions, preferably, the cutter head is circular, and a vertical distance between a circle center of the cutter head and an axis of the feeding barrel is H, wherein H is greater than or equal to 22.5mm and less than or equal to 35 mm.

In these technical schemes, the centre of a circle of blade disc and the axis of a feeding section of thick bamboo are difficult for separating too far away, otherwise can lead to leading just section of thick bamboo and feed inlet skew, and lead to taking place to the condition that edible materials such as sugarcane can't cut. Therefore, the vertical distance H between the circle center of the cutter head and the axis of the feeding barrel is preferably in the range of more than or equal to 22.5mm and less than or equal to 35 mm.

In any one of the above technical solutions, preferably, the cutter head is provided with a first fixing hole, and the cutting blade is provided with a second fixing hole; the cutter head assembly further comprises a connecting piece, one end of the connecting piece is fixed in the first fixing hole, and the other end of the connecting piece is fixed in the second fixing hole.

In the technical schemes, the cutter head and the cutting knife can be provided with fixing holes, and then the connecting piece is used for simply and quickly realizing the detachable connection between the cutter head and the cutting knife.

Wherein, preferably, the connecting piece is a connecting screw. Because the connecting screw is firmly connected and is a standard part, the connecting screw is easy to purchase and is cheap, and the cost of the product can be reduced.

Preferably, the number of the first fixing holes is multiple, and the number of the second fixing holes and the number of the connecting pieces are the same as the number of the first fixing holes. This arrangement enables the mounting of the cutting blade by the plurality of connecting members, and thus the mounting stability of the cutting blade can be further ensured. In addition, a plurality of connecting pieces correspond to a plurality of first fixed orificess and a plurality of second fixed orificess one-to-one, so can prevent the condition of punching more from taking place.

In any of the above technical solutions, preferably, the cutter is a metal cutter or a plastic cutter.

In the technical schemes, the metal cutterhead has good strength but is expensive, and the plastic cutterhead has weaker strength but is relatively cheap, so that the material of the cutterhead can be selected according to actual needs to be processed into the corresponding metal cutterhead or plastic cutterhead.

In any of the above technical solutions, preferably, the cutting knife is fixed above the cutter head, and a preset distance L is provided between the cutting knife and the cutter head, wherein L is greater than or equal to 0.9mm and less than or equal to 9 mm.

In the technical schemes, a certain gap is preferably formed between the cutter head and the cutting knife, so that the food material can be cut more conveniently, a buffering space can be provided for the food material when the food material is cut, the food material can smoothly flow into the food processing cup from the feed inlet, and the blockage can be further prevented. Preferably, however, the preset distance L between the cutting knife and the cutter head is greater than or equal to 0.9mm and less than or equal to 9 mm.

In any of the above technical solutions, preferably, the cutter head is circular, and/or the feed port is elongated, and the shape of the cutting blade is adapted to the shape of the feed port.

In the technical schemes, the cutter head is a circular cutter head, so that the cutter head can be in a symmetrical structure, and the arrangement ensures the balance between the crushing screw and the cutter head assembly when the cutter head rotates along with the crushing screw, so as to prevent the situation that the gravity centers of the crushing screw and the cutter head assembly are unstable and deflect. Meanwhile, the feed inlet is preferably in a long strip shape, such as an arc shape, a square shape and the like, and the shape of the cutting knife is matched with that of the feed inlet. This kind of setting can make the feed inlet roughly extend along the circumferential direction of blade disc, therefore can make the opening of feed inlet great, and then can improve the edible material volume that the blade disc single was allowed to pass through, on the other hand, the feed inlet is rectangular shape, consequently the cutting sword can be along the long limit distribution of rectangular shape, therefore can make the length of blade longer, and then can improve the cutting process effect of blade.

In the above technical solution, preferably, the host computer assembly further includes: the power supply module is used for supplying power to parts of the food processor, such as a driving device, and at least comprises a power plug which can be plugged into mains supply, so that the power plug can be directly connected with the mains supply to supply power to the food processor when the food processor is used specifically.

In the above technical solutions, preferably, the squeezing cup is provided with a residue outlet and a juice outlet, wherein the food juice separated from the food material juice and the residue in the squeezing cup is discharged from the juice outlet, and the food residue separated from the juice and the residue is discharged from the residue outlet.

In any of the above technical solutions, preferably, the food processor is a juice extractor or a juicer, and of course, the food processor may also be other structures besides a juice extractor and a juicer, such as a juicer, a wall breaking machine, and the like.

Additional aspects and advantages in accordance with the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.

Drawings

The above and/or additional aspects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent and readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a portion of a food processor according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is another exploded schematic view of a portion of a food processor according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 provides an exploded view of the cutterhead assembly, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 provides a schematic structural view of a cutterhead assembly in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 provides another schematic construction of a cutterhead assembly in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

Wherein, the correspondence between the reference numbers and the part names in fig. 1 to 5 is:

1 food processing cup, 12 crushing cup, 14 crushing screw, 142 inclined guide plate, 16 extruding cup, 18 extruding screw, 22 upper cover, 222 cover plate, 224 feeding cylinder, 24 guide cylinder, 242 positioning rib, 26 feeding cup, 28 fixing ring, 3 cutter head assembly, 32 cutter head, 322 feeding hole, 324 mounting hole, 326 first fixing hole, 34 connector, 36 cutting knife and 362 second fixing hole.

Detailed Description

In order that the above objects, features and advantages of the present invention can be more clearly understood, a more particular description of the invention will be rendered by reference to the appended drawings. It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments of the present application may be combined with each other without conflict.

In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention, however, the present invention may be practiced otherwise than as specifically described herein, and thus the scope of the present invention is not limited by the specific embodiments disclosed below.

A food processor provided according to an embodiment of the present invention is described below with reference to fig. 1 to 5.

As shown in fig. 1 to 5, a first aspect embodiment of the present invention provides a food processor, including: the host machine component comprises a driving device; the food processing cup 1 can be arranged on the main machine component, the food processing cup 1 comprises a crushing cup 12 and a crushing screw 14 arranged in the crushing cup 12, and the crushing screw 14 is in driving connection with a driving device; the upper cover 22, the upper cover 22 includes the cover plate 222 and the feed cylinder 224, the cover plate 222 can be covered on the pulverizing cup 12, the feed cylinder 224 is set on the cover plate 222 and extends to the direction far away from the pulverizing cup 12, the feed cylinder 224 is set with the feed channel which runs through the cover plate 222; the cutter head assembly 3 is positioned between the crushing cup 12 and the upper cover 22 and is arranged on the crushing screw 14 in a driving way, and a feeding hole 322 is arranged on the cutter head assembly 3 corresponding to the feeding channel; a righting cylinder 24 removably mounted within the feed cylinder 224; the cross-sectional area of the grinding cup 12 decreases from the open end of the grinding cup 12 to the bottom of the grinding cup 12 and the cross-sectional area of the grinding screw 14 increases from near the open end of the grinding cup 12 to the bottom of the grinding cup 12.

According to the food processor provided by the embodiment of the invention, the upper cover 22 is used for feeding, and the guide cylinder 24 is used for guiding the feeding direction of the food such as sugarcane when the juice of the food such as sugarcane is extracted, so that the food such as sugarcane is prevented from deflecting in the feeding cylinder 224 and being incapable of being cut by the cutter head assembly 3. And through setting up the guide cylinder 24, after food materials such as sugarcane enter into the feed cylinder 224, can just set up the feed inlet 322 to the cutter disc assembly 3, thereby make the sugarcane can according to the feeding direction downfeed that designs in advance, specifically, can make food materials such as sugarcane enter into the feed cylinder 224 in the back, can vertical downfeed, thereby make food materials such as sugarcane put into in the feed cylinder 224 can be cut into the segment by the rotatory cutter disc assembly 3 gradually, and enter into in the food processing cup 1. This kind of setting is led through setting up and is just section of thick bamboo 24 can prevent food such as sugarcane skew in feed cylinder 224, therefore makes edible material such as sugarcane normally feed, then in falling into crushing cup 12, therefore can realize the normal juice of sugarcane. Meanwhile, when other food materials such as sugar cane and apple are squeezed, the guide cylinder 24 can be taken down to squeeze juice from the normal food materials. The food processor can realize juicing treatment of sugarcane and can normally juicing other food materials, so that the functions of products can be expanded to meet more requirements of users.

The cross-sectional area of the grinding cup 12 is reduced from the opening end of the grinding cup 12 to the bottom of the grinding cup 12, the cross-sectional area of the grinding screw 14 is increased from the opening end close to the grinding cup 12 to the bottom of the grinding cup 12, and the gap between the grinding cup 12 and the grinding screw 14 can be gradually reduced from the opening of the grinding cup 12 to the bottom of the grinding cup 12, so that the squeezing pressure degree of the food materials can be sequentially increased, the food materials can be squeezed more and more, and the juice yield can be improved.

In any of the above embodiments, preferably, as shown in fig. 1 and 2, the food processor further includes: a feeding cup 26, wherein the two ends of the feeding cup 26 are open and hollow, and the feeding cup 26 is rotatably arranged in one end of the feeding cylinder 224 far away from the cover plate 222; wherein, the aperture of the opening of the first end of the feeding cup 26 is smaller than the aperture of the opening of the second end of the feeding cup 26.

In these embodiments, through setting up feeding cup 26, can be throwing into less edible material, directly throw in through feeding cup 26's tip, and when throwing in great edible material, can throw in edible material in feeding cup 26 earlier, then rotatory feeding cup 26, in order to pour edible material into feeding barrel, this kind of setting, can throw in edible material of equidimension not, consequently make the product can handle the edible material piece of various sizes, simultaneously, this kind of setting can also reduce feeding barrel's opening size through feeding cup 26's tip when not throwing the material, in order to prevent that the user directly stretches into feeding barrel 224 with the hand, thereby can reduce the potential safety hazard of product, and then make the product can satisfy relevant industry standard.

In any of the above embodiments, preferably, as shown in fig. 1 and 2, the food processor further includes: the fixed ring 28 is arranged on the feeding cylinder 224, and the feeding cup 26 is rotatably arranged on the feeding cylinder 224 through the fixed ring 28.

In such embodiments, a retaining ring 28 may be provided on the feeder cylinder 224 to allow for simple and quick attachment of the dosing cup 26 by the retaining ring 28.

Wherein, preferably, the opening of the first end of the feeding cup 26 is circular, and the diameter D of the opening of the first end of the feeding cup 26 is less than or equal to 45 mm. The feed inlet can be arranged to be maximized, and the size of the actual feed inlet of the food processor is reduced, so that the product can meet the standards of related industries.

In any of the above embodiments, preferably, the outer side wall of the correcting cylinder 24 is provided with a plurality of positioning ribs 242, and the plurality of positioning ribs 242 are arranged at intervals along the circumferential direction of the correcting cylinder 24; the inner side wall of the feeding cylinder 224 is provided with a plurality of positioning grooves, and the correcting cylinder 24 is detachably mounted in the feeding cylinder 224 through the matching of the positioning ribs 242 and the positioning grooves.

In these embodiments, the guiding cylinder 24 can be fixedly installed in the feeding cylinder 224 through the cooperation of the positioning ribs 242 and the positioning grooves, and the rotation degree of freedom of the guiding cylinder 24 can be limited through the cooperation of the positioning ribs 242 and the positioning grooves, so that the guiding cylinder 24 can be prevented from rotating in the feeding cylinder 224, and the installation stability of the guiding cylinder 24 can be improved.

In any of the above embodiments, preferably, as shown in fig. 2, the positioning rib 242 is parallel to the axis of the correcting cylinder 24; and/or a plurality of positioning ribs 242 are symmetrically distributed on the polarization cylinder 24.

In the embodiments, the positioning rib 242 is parallel to the axis of the straightening barrel 24, that is, the positioning rib 242 is vertically arranged on the straightening barrel 24, which can make the length of the positioning rib 242 shorter, thereby reducing the product cost. Of course, the positioning rib 242 may be disposed on the straightening barrel 24 to be inclined from top to bottom. The plurality of positioning ribs 242 are symmetrically distributed on the straightening barrel 24, so that the straightening barrel 24 forms an axisymmetric structure, and the structure of the straightening barrel 24 is simpler, and the machining is better.

In any of the above embodiments, preferably, as shown in fig. 2, the pulverizing screw 14 is provided with an inclined guide plate 142, the middle part of the inclined guide plate 142 is mounted on the screw shaft of the pulverizing screw 14, both ends of the inclined guide plate 142 are mounted to the cutterhead assembly 3, and the inclined guide plate 142 extends obliquely from the cutterhead assembly away from the feed opening.

In these embodiments, an inclined material guiding plate 142 may be obliquely disposed on the pulverizing screw 14 and below the cutter head assembly 3, so that on one hand, the inclined material guiding plate 142 can be used to guide the food material falling into the pulverizing cup from the feeding port, so as to prevent the food material from falling into the pulverizing cup from the feeding port and scattering around, and further, the food material falling into the pulverizing cup from the feeding port can be guided to the correct region of the pulverizing screw 14, so as to prevent the food material from accumulating on the end surface of the pulverizing screw 14. On the other hand, the pulverizing screw 14 can be attached to the cutterhead assembly 3 again by inclining the deflector, so that the reliability of the connection between the cutterhead assembly 3 and the pulverizing screw 14 can be improved.

Wherein, preferably, as shown in fig. 2, both ends of the inclined guide plate 142 are mounted to the cutterhead assembly 3 by means of a plurality of screws or a plurality of bolts.

In these embodiments, the two ends of the inclined guide plate 142 are mounted to the cutterhead assembly 3 through a plurality of screws or bolts, so that on one hand, the mounting between the inclined guide plate 142 and the cutterhead assembly 3 can be simply and quickly achieved, and thus the cost of the product can be reduced, and on the other hand, the screw connection and the bolt connection are relatively firm, and thus the connection strength between the inclined guide plate 142 and the cutterhead assembly 3 can be ensured. In addition, the inclined guide plate 142 can be easily detached from the cutterhead assembly 3 through screw connection, thereby facilitating replacement, maintenance and cleaning of the inclined guide plate 142 and the cutterhead assembly 3.

In the above embodiments, preferably, as shown in fig. 1, the food processing cup 1 further includes: a squeezing cup 16 connected with the crushing cup 12, wherein a squeezing screw 18 is arranged in the squeezing cup 16; the driving device comprises a first driving shaft and a second driving shaft, the first driving shaft is in driving connection with the crushing screw and used for driving the crushing screw to crush food materials, and the second driving shaft is in driving connection with the extrusion screw 18 and used for driving the extrusion screw 18 to extrude the food materials so as to separate the food materials from juice and residues.

In these embodiments, after the food material enters the grinding cup 12, the grinding screw engages the side wall of the grinding cup 12 under the drive of the first drive shaft to grind the food material, the ground food material enters the extrusion cup 16 under the drive of the grinding screw, and the extrusion screw 18 extrudes the food material under the drive of the second drive shaft to separate the juice and the residue of the food material. This embodiment is with the crushing process and the crowded sediment process of edible material separately go on, and in crushing process, owing to need not squeeze the juice and arrange the sediment, consequently, need not set up parts such as filter screen and rotatory brush in smashing cup 12, thereby make the edible material in smashing cup 12 can be smashed under the combined action of smashing cup 12 and crushing screw, can set up extrusion screw 18 roughly horizontally simultaneously in the crowded sediment process, can set the crowded sediment system into horizontal, thereby can be very convenient for with the juice sediment separation of food, the juice rate of food processor can be ensured on the one hand in this kind of setting, on the other hand can avoid using the filter screen, spare part such as rotatory brush, thereby make the simple structure and the easy installation of food processor, simultaneously because cancelled the filter screen, therefore can reduce user's washing difficulty, and then can promote user experience.

In any of the above embodiments, it is preferable that the axis of the pressing cup 16 and the axis of the grinding cup 12 form an included angle of 75 ° or more and 180 ° or less, or the axis of the pressing cup 16 and the axis of the grinding cup 12 form an included angle of 90 ° or more and 135 ° or less.

In this embodiment, an included angle may be set between the extruding cup 16 and the crushing cup 12, as long as the food material can enter the crushing cup 12 from the extruding cup 16, wherein, preferably, an included angle between the axis of the extruding cup 16 and the axis of the crushing cup 12 is greater than or equal to 90 ° and less than or equal to 135 °, that is, the extruding cup is set horizontally or obliquely downward, so that the food material does not at least overcome the gravity of the food material when entering the extruding cup or flowing to the slag outlet in the extruding cup, and further the flow of the food material is smoother, wherein, further, an included angle between the axis of the extruding cup 16 and the axis of the crushing cup 12 is greater than 90 ° and less than or equal to 135 °, and the food material can flow out by the extruding force of the extruding screw, and can flow out by the gravity of the food material, so that on one hand, the flow rate can be increased to increase the juice speed, and on the other hand, the food material can be, in order to improve juice rate, simultaneously, this kind of setting combines vertical machine and horizontal machine, therefore can make the product both have the effectual advantage of vertical machine crushing, has the abundant advantage of horizontal machine extrusion again, and then can make promptly to eat the material by abundant crushing, can be fully extruded again, and then can improve juice rate.

Wherein, furthermore, the axial line of the squeezing cup 16 and the axial line of the crushing cup 12 are preferably at an included angle of 90 degrees.

Preferably, an included angle between the axis of the extrusion screw 18 and the axis of the pulverizing screw 14 is 75 ° or more and 180 ° or an included angle between the axis of the extrusion screw 18 and the axis of the pulverizing screw 14 is 90 ° or more and 135 ° or less. This kind of setting can make extrusion cup level or slope set up downwards to eat the material and enter into in the extrusion cup or need not overcome the gravity of eating the material at least when flowing to the slag notch in the extrusion cup, and then make the flow of eating the material more smooth and easy.

Wherein, furthermore, the axis of the extrusion screw 18 and the axis of the pulverizing screw 14 are preferably at an angle of 90 °.

In any of the above embodiments (not shown in the figures), preferably, the food processing cup further comprises: the crushing screw rod is arranged in the cup body; and a strainer installed between the cup body and the pulverizing screw 14.

In these embodiments, the food processor may be configured as a single-cup single-screw food processor, and in this case, a filter screen may be disposed between the cup body and the crushing screw 14, so that the crushing screw 14 can crush food materials, and after the food materials are crushed, juice and residue of the food can be separated through the filter screen.

In the above embodiments, preferably, as shown in fig. 3 to 5, the cutterhead assembly 3 includes: the cutter head 32 is positioned between the cover plate and the crushing cup 12, and a feeding hole 322 and a mounting hole 324 are formed in the cutter head 32; the connector 34, the connector 34 is installed in the mounting hole 324, and can be in driving connection with the pulverizing screw 14; a cutter 36 mounted on the edge of the feed port 322 of the cutter head 32; wherein, the cutting knife 36 and the cutter head 32 are in an integral structure, or the cutting knife 36 and the cutter head 32 are in a split structure.

In the embodiments, the cutter head assembly 3 comprises the cutter head 32, the connecting head 34 and the cutting blade 36, wherein the cutting blade 36 is used for cutting and crushing food materials such as sugarcane, and the connecting head 34 is used for driving and connecting the cutter head 32 with the crushing screw 14, and compared with the scheme that the cutter head 32 is directly installed on the crushing screw 14, the structure has the advantages that the installation is simpler, and the driving installation between the crushing screw 14 and the cutter head 32 is better. Meanwhile, after the cutter head assembly 3 is installed in the food processor, the cutting knives 36 can be used for cutting hard food materials or coarse fiber food materials into small fragments after the hard food materials or the coarse fiber food materials enter the crushing cup 12 and before the crushing screws 14 are extruded, so that the food materials cut by the cutting knives 36 can be easily crushed by the crushing screws 14, the crushing screws 14 cannot be easily clamped, and meanwhile, the food materials are cut into small fragments in advance, so that the particles of the food residues are small, the food residues can be easily discharged and cannot be blocked at a residue outlet. In addition, since the hard food material, the coarse fiber food material, or the like is cut into small pieces in advance, the food material can be sufficiently squeezed out of the juice by the pulverizing screw 14 in the pulverizing cup 12, and the juice yield can be improved.

Preferably, the cutting blades 36 and the cutter head 32 are of an integral structure, so that the strength between the cutting blades 36 and the cutter head 32 can be improved, and the installation stability of the cutting blades 36 can be improved. Of course, the cutting blade 36 and the cutter head 32 can be in a split structure, so that the cutting blade 36 and the cutter head 32 can be detached, and the cutting blade 36 can be independently maintained and replaced after the cutting blade 36 is worn, so that the maintenance convenience of the cutter assembly can be improved, and the maintenance cost can be reduced.

In any of the above embodiments, preferably, as shown in fig. 3 to 5, the cutter head 32 is circular, and the vertical distance between the center of the cutter head 32 and the axis of the feeding cylinder 224 is H, wherein H is greater than or equal to 22.5mm and less than or equal to 35 mm.

In these embodiments, the center of the cutter head 32 is not easily separated from the axis of the feeding cylinder 224, otherwise the guide cylinder 24 and the feeding port 322 would be deviated, and the food materials such as sugar cane would not be cut. Therefore, the vertical distance H between the center of the impeller 32 and the axis of the feed cylinder 224 is preferably in the range of 22.5mm or more and 35mm or less.

Wherein, the dotted circle in fig. 4 is the outline of the orthographic projection of the guide cylinder on the cutter head assembly.

In any of the above embodiments, preferably, as shown in fig. 3 and 4, the cutter head 32 is provided with the first fixing hole 326, and the cutter 36 is provided with the second fixing hole 362; the cutterhead assembly 3 further includes a connector, one end of which is fixed in the first fixing hole 326 and the other end of which is fixed in the second fixing hole 362.

In such embodiments, attachment holes may be provided in both the cutter head 32 and the cutting blades 36, and then the removable connection between the cutter head 32 and the cutting blades 36 may be simply and quickly accomplished by means of a connector.

Preferably, as shown in fig. 3 and 4, the number of the first fixing holes 326 is plural, and the number of the second fixing holes 362 and the number of the connecting members are the same as the number of the first fixing holes 326. This arrangement enables the mounting of the cutting blade 36 by a plurality of connectors, and thus the mounting stability of the cutting blade 36 can be further ensured. In addition, the plurality of connection members correspond to the plurality of first fixing holes 326 and the plurality of second fixing holes 362 one to one, so that a multi-hole state can be prevented.

In any of the above embodiments, the cutter head 32 is preferably a metal cutter head or a plastic cutter head.

In these embodiments, the metal cutter has good strength but a little higher price, and the plastic cutter has weaker strength but a relatively lower price, so that the material of the cutter 32 can be selected according to actual needs to be processed into a corresponding metal cutter or plastic cutter.

In any of the above embodiments, preferably, as shown in fig. 5, the cutting blade 36 is fixed above the cutter head 32, and a preset distance L is set between the cutting blade and the cutter head 32, wherein L is greater than or equal to 0.9mm and less than or equal to 9 mm.

In these embodiments, there is preferably a certain clearance between the cutter head 32 and the cutting blades 36, which can facilitate cutting of the food material. Preferably, however, the predetermined distance L between the cutting blades 36 and the cutter head 32 is 0.9mm or more and 9mm or less.

In any of the above embodiments, preferably, the cutter head 32 is circular and/or the feed port 322 is elongated, and the shape of the cutting blades 36 is adapted to the shape of the feed port 322.

In these embodiments, the impeller 32 is a circular impeller so that the impeller 32 can be of a symmetrical configuration, and this arrangement allows the impeller 32 to ensure a balance between the pulverizing screw 14 and the impeller assembly 3 when rotating with the pulverizing screw 14 to prevent the pulverizing screw 14 and the impeller assembly 3 from deflecting due to unstable centers of gravity. Meanwhile, the feed port 322 is preferably formed in a long shape, such as an arc shape, a square shape, etc., in which the shape of the cutting blade 36 is adapted to the shape of the feed port 322. This kind of setting can make feed inlet 322 roughly extend along the circumferential direction of blade disc 32, therefore can make the opening of feed inlet 322 great, and then can improve the edible material volume that blade disc 32 single was allowed to let through, on the other hand, feed inlet 322 is rectangular shape, therefore cutting sword 36 can be distributed along the long limit of rectangular shape, therefore can make the length of blade longer, and then can improve the cutting process effect of blade.

In the above embodiment, preferably, the host component further includes: the power supply module is used for supplying power to parts of the food processor, such as a driving device, and at least comprises a power plug which can be plugged into mains supply, so that the power plug can be directly connected with the mains supply to supply power to the food processor when the food processor is used specifically.

In the above embodiments, preferably, the squeezing cup 16 is provided with a juice outlet and a juice outlet, wherein the food juice separated from the food material juice and the food residue in the squeezing cup 16 is discharged from the juice outlet, and the food residue separated from the juice and the residue is discharged from the residue outlet.

In any of the above embodiments, the food processor is preferably a juicer or a juicer, but the food processor may also be other structures besides a juicer or a juicer, such as a juicer, a wall breaking machine, and the like.

In the description of the present specification, the terms "connect", "mount", "fix", and the like are to be understood in a broad sense, for example, "connect" may be a fixed connection, a detachable connection, or an integral connection; may be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediate. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.

In the description herein, the description of the terms "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "specific embodiments," etc., means that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.

The above is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes will occur to those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A food processor, comprising:

a host assembly including a drive device;

the food processing cup can be arranged on the main machine component and comprises a crushing cup and a crushing screw rod arranged in the crushing cup, and the crushing screw rod is in driving connection with the driving device;

the upper cover comprises a cover plate and a feeding cylinder, the cover plate can be covered on the crushing cup, the feeding cylinder is arranged on the cover plate and extends in the direction far away from the crushing cup, and a feeding channel penetrating through the cover plate is arranged on the feeding cylinder;

the cutter head assembly is positioned between the crushing cup and the upper cover and is arranged on the crushing screw in a driving way, and a feeding hole is formed in the cutter head assembly corresponding to the feeding channel;

the guide cylinder is detachably arranged in the feeding cylinder;

wherein the cross-sectional area of the grinding cup decreases from the open end of the grinding cup to the bottom of the grinding cup, and the cross-sectional area of the grinding screw increases from near the open end of the grinding cup to the bottom of the grinding cup.

2. The food processor of claim 1, further comprising:

the two ends of the feeding cup are open and are hollow, and the feeding cup can be rotatably arranged in one end of the feeding cylinder, which is far away from the cover plate;

the aperture of the opening at the first end of the feeding cup is smaller than the aperture of the opening at the second end of the feeding cup.

3. The food processor of claim 2, further comprising:

the fixed ring is arranged on the feeding cylinder, and the feeding cup is rotationally arranged on the feeding cylinder through the fixed ring.

4. The food processor of claim 2,

the opening of the first end of the feeding cup is circular, and the diameter D of the opening of the first end of the feeding cup is smaller than or equal to 45 mm.

5. The food processor of claim 1,

the outer side wall of the correcting cylinder is provided with a plurality of positioning ribs which are arranged at intervals along the circumferential direction of the correcting cylinder;

the inner side wall of the feeding cylinder is provided with a plurality of positioning grooves, and the guide cylinder is detachably installed in the feeding cylinder through the matching of the positioning ribs and the positioning grooves.

6. The food processor of claim 5,

the positioning rib is parallel to the axis of the guide cylinder; and/or

The positioning ribs are symmetrically distributed on the guide cylinder.

7. The food processor of any one of claims 1 to 6,

the crushing screw is provided with an inclined guide plate, the middle of the inclined guide plate is arranged on a screw shaft of the crushing screw, two ends of the inclined guide plate are arranged on the cutter head assembly, and the inclined guide plate extends obliquely from the cutter head assembly to a direction far away from the feed port.

8. The food processor of any one of claims 1-6, wherein the food processor cup further comprises:

the extrusion cup is connected with the crushing cup, and an extrusion screw is arranged in the extrusion cup;

wherein, drive arrangement includes first drive shaft and second drive shaft, first drive shaft with smash the screw drive and be connected, be used for the drive smash the screw and smash edible material, the second drive shaft with the extrusion screw drive is connected, is used for the drive the extrusion screw extrudes edible material so that edible material juice sediment separation.

9. The food processor of claim 8,

the axis of the extrusion screw and the axis of the crushing screw form an included angle of more than or equal to 75 degrees and less than or equal to 180 degrees, or the axis of the extrusion screw and the axis of the crushing screw form an included angle of more than or equal to 90 degrees and less than or equal to 135 degrees.

10. The food processor of any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the impeller assembly includes:

the cutter head is positioned between the cover plate and the crushing cup, and is provided with a mounting hole and the feeding hole;

the connector is arranged in the mounting hole and can be in driving connection with the crushing screw;

the cutting knife is arranged on the edge of the feed port of the cutter head;

the cutting knife and the cutter head are of an integrated structure, or the cutting knife and the cutter head are of a split structure.

11. The food processor of claim 10,

the cutter head is circular, the vertical distance between the circle center of the cutter head and the axis of the feeding cylinder is H, wherein H is more than or equal to 22.5mm and less than or equal to 35 mm.

12. The food processor of claim 10,

a first fixing hole is formed in the cutter disc, and a second fixing hole is formed in the cutting knife;

the cutter head assembly further comprises a connecting piece, one end of the connecting piece is fixed in the first fixing hole, and the other end of the connecting piece is fixed in the second fixing hole.

13. The food processor of claim 12,

the connecting piece is a connecting screw; and/or

The quantity of first fixed orifices is a plurality of, the quantity of second fixed orifices and the quantity of connecting piece all with the quantity of first fixed orifices is unanimous.

14. The food processor of claim 10,

the cutter head is a metal cutter head or a plastic cutter head; and/or

The cutting knife is fixed above the cutter disc, and a preset distance L is arranged between the cutting knife and the cutter disc, wherein L is more than or equal to 0.9mm and less than or equal to 9 mm; and/or

The cutter head is circular, the feed inlet is of a long strip shape, and the shape of the cutting knife is matched with that of the feed inlet.