CN216724279U

CN216724279U - Food processing machine

Info

Publication number: CN216724279U
Application number: CN202122663392.8U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 朱泽春; 尉迟衍敏; 林庆泽; 刘敦国
Original assignee: Joyoung Co Ltd
Current assignee: Joyoung Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-11-02
Filing date: 2021-11-02
Publication date: 2022-06-14
Anticipated expiration: 2031-11-02

Abstract

The utility model discloses a food processor, which relates to the technical field of domestic electric appliances, and comprises a crushing cup, a crushing motor and a crushing device, wherein the crushing motor is arranged at the bottom of the crushing cup, the crushing device is driven by the crushing motor, a through blocking plate is arranged in the crushing cup, the blocking plate and the bottom wall of the crushing cup enclose a crushing cavity, the crushing device is positioned in the crushing cavity, the blocking plate is provided with a first position and a second position, when the blocking plate is positioned at the first position, the blocking plate is transversely arranged in the crushing cup, and the blocking plate can be turned to the second position from the first position. Through setting up the barrier plate to overturn to the second position by primary importance for when the barrier plate is located the second position, the barrier plate slope is put or is erected in crushing intracavity, when carrying out the self-cleaning function, reducing mechanism drives the high-speed rotation of liquid, because the barrier plate is located the second position, has avoided the barrier plate to blockking of liquid, makes liquid can fully splash whole cavity, realizes the abundant washing to smashing cup and bowl cover.

Description

Food processing machine

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the technical field of household appliances, in particular to a food processing machine.

Background

The food processor that has now usually includes crushing cup, install the crushing motor in crushing cup bottom, by crushing motor driven reducing mechanism, when food processor carries out edible material processing, crushing motor drive reducing mechanism rotates at a high speed, the material outwards splashes under reducing mechanism's crushing striking effect, cause the comminuted effect variation, crushing efficiency reduces, in order to solve above-mentioned problem, can set up the barrier plate that transversely arranges in crushing cup and run through in reducing mechanism's top usually, make the material of splashing kick-back to crushing intracavity further crushing after the striking under barrier plate's the effect of blockking, improve crushing efficiency. But current barrier plate usually does the form of an organic whole with smashing the cup or fixes in smashing the cup, when needs wash smashing the cup, the high-speed rotation of water is washd in the reducing mechanism drive, because the water that washs that blocks of barrier plate can not fully splash to whole crushing cup, leads to cleaning performance greatly reduced, washs not thoroughly enough, seriously influences consumer and uses and experiences.

Disclosure of Invention

The utility model aims to provide a food processor, which is used for solving the problems of low crushing efficiency and unclean cleaning of the existing food processor.

In order to achieve the purpose, the utility model provides a food processor which comprises a crushing cup, a crushing motor and a crushing device, wherein the crushing motor is arranged at the bottom of the crushing cup, the crushing device is driven by the crushing motor, a through blocking plate is arranged in the crushing cup, the blocking plate and the bottom wall of the crushing cup enclose a crushing cavity, the crushing device is positioned in the crushing cavity, the blocking plate is provided with a first position and a second position, when the blocking plate is positioned at the first position, the blocking plate is transversely arranged in the crushing cup, and the blocking plate can be turned to the second position from the first position.

This application is through setting up the barrier plate that runs through at crushing intracavity, and the barrier plate encloses synthetic crushing chamber with the diapire of smashing the cup, reducing mechanism is located crushing intracavity, simultaneously the barrier plate has primary importance and second place, and when the primary importance, in the barrier plate transversely put and the crushing cup, make the material when smashing the intracavity, the material outwards splashes under reducing mechanism's crushing striking effect, the material of splash back to smashing the intracavity further crushing after the striking under the blocking effect of barrier plate, improve material and reducing mechanism's contact probability, it is more frequent to smash the circulation, thereby improve crushing efficiency, reduce crushing time, and help reducing the energy consumption. Meanwhile, after the materials are crushed for multiple times, the fineness of the materials is improved, and the taste of the produced materials is improved. And the blocking plate can be turned over from the first position to the second position, namely: when the blocking plate is located at the second position, the blocking plate is obliquely or vertically arranged in the crushing cavity, so that when a user adds materials into the crushing cavity, the blocking of the materials is reduced by the blocking plate located at the second position, the materials can enter the crushing cavity more quickly, and the delivery efficiency is improved; on the other hand is carrying out when self-cleaning function when food preparation machine, reducing mechanism drives the high-speed rotation of liquid, because the barrier plate is located the second position, has avoided the barrier plate to stopping of liquid for liquid can fully splash whole cavity, realizes improving cleaning performance to the abundant washing of smashing cup and bowl cover, has promoted user's use and has experienced.

In a preferred embodiment of the food processor, the grinding cup is also provided on its outer side with a drive for driving the blocking plate in the direction of rotation.

The driving device for driving the blocking plate to overturn is arranged on the outer side of the crushing cup, so that the blocking plate overturns between the first position and the second position under the driving action of the driving device. Meanwhile, the driving device is positioned outside the crushing cup, so that the condition that the food material is not smoothly processed due to the interference of the food material and the driving device in the food material processing process caused by the fact that the driving device is positioned in the crushing cup is avoided.

In a preferred embodiment of the food processor, the drive device comprises a drive motor, the motor shaft of which is connected to the blocking plate through the wall of the comminution cup.

The used driving device is arranged to comprise a driving motor, a motor shaft of the driving motor penetrates through the cup wall of the smashing cup to be connected with the blocking plate, the blocking plate is enabled to be overturned under the driving of the driving motor, and the driving device is more convenient and labor-saving.

In a preferred embodiment of the food processor, the comminution cup has a through-hole through which the motor shaft passes, a sealing element and a positioning ring are arranged between the motor shaft and the inner wall of the through-hole, and the outer wall of the positioning ring is fixed to the inner wall of the through-hole in order to support the motor shaft.

Be equipped with the sealing member between the inner wall through motor shaft and through-hole, improved the leakproofness between motor shaft and the through-hole, guaranteed motor shaft and through-hole sealing connection, avoid thick liquid etc. to lead to in motor shaft rotation unstability and the condition that produces great noise in entering into the through-hole through the clearance between motor shaft and the through-hole. Still be equipped with the holding ring between motor shaft and the through-hole simultaneously, and the outer wall of holding ring is fixed with the inner wall of through-hole for the motor shaft realizes supporting fixedly in the through-hole, guarantees motor shaft and through-hole complex stability, helps reducing the area of contact of motor shaft and through-hole simultaneously, reduces the frictional force that produces between the two, makes the rotation of barrier plate more smooth and easy.

In a preferred embodiment of the food processor, the drive device comprises a handle, which comprises a connecting part and a gripping part, wherein one end of the connecting part is connected to the blocking plate through the wall of the comminution cup and the other end is connected to the gripping part outside the comminution cup.

Through setting up drive arrangement to including the handle, and the handle includes connecting portion and the portion of gripping, connecting portion one end is passed the wall of cup of smashing the cup and is connected with the barrier plate, and the other end is connected with the portion of gripping that is located the crushing cup outside for the user just can realize the control upset to the barrier plate through drive handle, and simple structure and the assembly of being convenient for help reduction in production cost and improve assembly efficiency.

In a preferred embodiment of the food processor, the blocking plate is in the second position, and the angle a between the plane of the blocking plate and the radial direction of the comminuting chamber is such that: a is more than or equal to 30 degrees.

When being located the second position, the baffle plate is arranged in the plane and the radial included angle a between the crushing cavity, the included angle a is set to be larger than or equal to 30 degrees, when the baffle plate is prevented from being located in the second position, the included angle a between the plane where the baffle plate is located and the radial direction of the crushing cavity is too small, so that the baffle plate can generate a large blocking effect on liquid in the crushing cavity, and the liquid can not be fully splashed into the whole cup body and the cleaning effect is not good.

In a preferred embodiment of the food processor, the comminution cup also has a mixing chamber above the comminution chamber, which is constricted relative to the mixing chamber, a transition step being formed between the comminution chamber and the mixing chamber.

Through setting up crushing cup into still having the hybrid chamber that is located crushing chamber top for the volume of crushing cup can enlarge, and the user can once only prepare more thick liquids and eat the material, has promoted user's use and has experienced. And smash chamber and mixing chamber intercommunication and relative mixing chamber shrink for the edible material that is located the mixing chamber can be at edible material self action of gravity down to smashing the chamber extrusion, makes edible material concentrate on smashing the intracavity and concentrates on smashing and grind, has improved and has smashed grinding efficiency.

In a preferred realization of the food processor, the top wall of the blocking plate is flush with the bottom wall of the transition step when the blocking plate is in the first position.

When being located the first position through with the barrier plate, the roof of barrier plate sets up to the form that flushes with the diapire of transition step, when avoiding the material to remove from the hybrid chamber to smashing the intracavity, the material is because the barrier plate is highly inconsistent jamming in the difference in height position with the transition step, guarantees the smooth and easy nature that the material flows, avoids the material to remain in the hybrid chamber, further improves crushing efficiency.

In a preferred realization of the food processor, the distance L between the blocking plate and the inner wall of the comminution cup is such that: l is more than or equal to 0.2mm and less than or equal to 1.5 mm.

The distance L between the blocking plate and the inner wall of the crushing cup is set to be 0.2mm or more and L or less than 1.5mm, the situation that the blocking plate cannot overturn due to unstable overturning or even clamping stagnation caused by material clamping stagnation between the blocking plate and the cup wall of the crushing cup due to undersize distance between the blocking plate and the cup wall of the crushing cup is avoided, meanwhile, the situation that the distance between the blocking plate and the cup wall of the crushing cup is too large, food processing machine is caused to process food materials, the materials can splash out through a gap between the inner wall of the crushing cup and the blocking plate, the blocking plate has a blocking function and is lowered, and the situation that the crushing efficiency of the crushing device is reduced is caused.

In a preferred embodiment of the food processor, the distance between the tilting axis of the blocking plate and the top wall of the comminuting means is not less than the tilting radius of the blocking plate.

Set up to the radial form of the upset through the distance between trip shaft with the barrier plate and the reducing mechanism roof into being not less than the barrier plate for the barrier plate can overturn to erectting to be put in crushing intracavity at the upset in-process, makes the barrier plate to the effect that blocks of liquid will be minimum, and the liquid of being convenient for more splashes to whole cup, realizes the abundant washing to smashing cup and bowl cover.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the utility model and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the utility model and together with the description serve to explain the utility model and not to limit the utility model. In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of a blocker plate in a first position according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of portion A of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of a blocking plate in a second position in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view of a food processor in accordance with another embodiment of the present invention.

Description of reference numerals:

1-crushing cup, 11-crushing cavity, 12-mixing cavity, 13-transition step and 14-through hole; 2-crushing device, 21-static grinding head, 22-dynamic grinding head and 23-crushing knife; 3-a barrier plate; 4-driving device, 41-motor shaft; 5-a seal; 6-positioning ring.

Detailed Description

In order to more clearly explain the overall concept of the present invention, the following detailed description is given by way of example in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

It should be noted that 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 in other ways than those specifically described herein, and thus the scope of the present invention is not limited by the specific embodiments disclosed below.

As shown in fig. 1 and 3, the utility model provides a food processor, which comprises a crushing cup 1, a crushing motor arranged at the bottom of the crushing cup 1, and a crushing device 2 driven by the crushing motor, wherein a through blocking plate 3 is arranged in the crushing cup 1, the blocking plate 3 and the bottom wall of the crushing cup 1 enclose a crushing cavity 11, the crushing device 2 is positioned in the crushing cavity 11, the blocking plate 3 has a first position and a second position, when the blocking plate 3 is positioned at the first position, the blocking plate 3 is transversely positioned in the crushing cup 1, and the blocking plate 3 can be turned from the first position to the second position.

This application is through setting up the barrier plate 3 that runs through in smashing chamber 11, and barrier plate 3 encloses synthetic crushing chamber 11 with the diapire that smashes cup 1, reducing mechanism 2 is located crushing chamber 11, barrier plate 3 has primary importance and second place simultaneously, as shown in figure 1, barrier plate 3 is when primary importance, barrier plate 3 is horizontal and smashes in the cup 1, make the material when smashing in smashing chamber 11, the material outwards splashes under reducing mechanism 2's crushing striking effect, the material that flies out rebounds to the material intracavity further crushing behind barrier plate 3's the effect of blockking down of striking, improve material and reducing mechanism 2's probability of contact, the crushing circulation is more frequent, thereby improve crushing efficiency, reduce crushing time, and help reducing the energy consumption. Meanwhile, after the materials are crushed for multiple times, the fineness of the materials is improved, and the taste of the produced materials is improved. And as shown in fig. 3, the blocking plate 3 can be turned from the first position to the second position, namely: when the blocking plate 3 is located at the second position, the blocking plate 3 is obliquely or vertically arranged in the crushing cavity 11, so that when a user adds materials into the crushing cavity 11, the blocking of the materials is reduced by the blocking plate 3 located at the second position, the materials can enter the crushing cavity 11 more quickly, and the delivery efficiency is improved; on the other hand is carrying out when self-cleaning function when food preparation machine, reducing mechanism 2 drives the high-speed rotation of liquid, because barrier plate 3 is located the second position, has avoided barrier plate 3 to blockking of liquid for liquid can fully splash whole cavity, realizes improving cleaning performance to the abundant washing of smashing cup 1 and bowl cover, has promoted user's use and has experienced.

It should be noted that the present application does not specifically limit the structure of the pulverizer 2, and the pulverizer may be any one of the following embodiments:

example 1: as shown in fig. 1, in this embodiment, the grinding means 2 includes a movable grinding head 22 connected to the motor shaft of the grinding motor and a stationary grinding head 21 fitted to the movable grinding head 22, and the stationary grinding head 21 is fixed to the inner side wall of the grinding cup 1.

Through setting up reducing mechanism 2 to including moving bistrique 22 and with moving bistrique 22 complex quiet bistrique 21, improved reducing mechanism 2's grinding efficiency, guarantee to eat the material and can be by abundant crushing under the grinding of moving bistrique 22 with quiet bistrique 21, improve the fine and smooth degree of eating the material, joyful user uses experience.

Example 2: as shown in fig. 4, in this embodiment, the crushing apparatus 2 is a crushing blade 23.

By providing the crushing apparatus 2 in the form of the crushing blades 23, the crushing effect of the crushing apparatus 2 is improved.

As a preferred embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 1, a driving means 4 for driving the baffle plate 3 to be turned is further provided outside the pulverizing cup 1.

The driving device 4 for driving the blocking plate 3 to overturn is arranged on the outer side of the crushing cup 1, so that the blocking plate 3 overturns between the first position and the second position under the driving action of the driving device 4. Meanwhile, the driving device 4 is located outside the crushing cup 1, so that the condition that the food material is not smoothly processed due to interference between the food material and the driving device 4 in the food material processing process caused by the fact that the driving device 4 is located in the crushing cup 1 is avoided.

It should be noted that the structure of the driving device 4 is not specifically limited in the present application, and may be any one of the following embodiments:

example 1: as shown in fig. 1, in this embodiment, the drive means 4 comprises a drive motor, the motor shaft 41 of which is connected to the blocking plate 3 through the wall of the comminution cup 1.

Used to set up drive arrangement 4 to including driving motor, and driving motor's motor shaft 41 passes the cup wall of smashing cup 1 and is connected with barrier plate 3 for barrier plate 3 realizes the upset under driving motor's drive, and is more convenient laborsaving, and preferably, drive arrangement 4 can realize the upset control to barrier plate 3 when food preparation machine carries out different functions, and is more intelligent and automatic, has promoted user and has used experience.

Further, as shown in fig. 2, the grinding cup 1 has a through hole 14 for the motor shaft 41 to pass through, a sealing member 5 and a positioning ring 6 are disposed between the motor shaft 41 and the inner wall of the through hole 14, and the outer wall of the positioning ring 6 is fixed to the inner wall of the through hole 14 to support the motor shaft 41.

By arranging the sealing element 5 between the motor shaft 41 and the inner wall of the through hole 14, the sealing property between the motor shaft 41 and the through hole 14 is improved, the sealing connection between the motor shaft 41 and the through hole 14 is ensured, and the situation that slurry enters the through hole 14 through the gap between the motor shaft 41 and the through hole 14 to cause the unstable rotation of the motor shaft 41 and generate large noise is avoided. Meanwhile, a positioning ring 6 is further arranged between the motor shaft 41 and the through hole 14, the outer wall of the positioning ring 6 is fixed with the inner wall of the through hole 14, the motor shaft 41 is supported and fixed in the through hole 14, the stability of the motor shaft 41 and the through hole 14 in matching is guaranteed, meanwhile, the contact area between the motor shaft 41 and the through hole 14 is reduced, the friction force generated between the motor shaft 41 and the through hole 14 is reduced, and the blocking plate 3 can rotate more smoothly.

Example 2: in this embodiment, the driving means 4 comprises a handle comprising a connecting portion and a gripping portion, one end of the connecting portion is connected to the blocking plate 3 through the wall of the pulverizing cup 1, and the other end is connected to the gripping portion located outside the pulverizing cup 1.

Through setting up drive arrangement 4 to including the handle, and the handle includes connecting portion and the portion of gripping, connecting portion one end is passed the cup wall of smashing cup 1 and is connected with barrier plate 3, and the other end is connected with the portion of gripping that is located the crushing cup 1 outside for the user passes through drive handle alright realize the control upset to barrier plate 3, and simple structure and the assembly of being convenient for help reduction in production cost and improve assembly efficiency.

Example 3: in this embodiment, the drive means 4 comprise an electromagnet arranged outside the comminution cup 1, with which electromagnet the blocking plate 3 can be magnetically coupled. Specifically, the blocking plate 3 is made of metal and is hinged in the smashing cup 1, a user can change the suction force on the blocking plate 3 by electrifying or powering off the electromagnet, when the electromagnet is powered off, the electromagnet does not have the suction force on the blocking plate 3, the blocking plate 3 is transversely arranged in the smashing cup 1 under the action of gravity, when the electromagnet is electrified, the electromagnet generates the suction force on the blocking plate 3 and is upwards turned to the second position, and preferably, the user can also control the power of the electromagnet so as to control the size of the suction force on the blocking part by the electromagnet. The mode that magnetic force cooperation drive barrier plate 3 overturns is as non-contact transmission's mode, has simplified the structural design of organism inner part and corresponding power transmission, makes the structure of complete machine compacter.

As a preferred embodiment of the present application, when the baffle 3 is located at the second position, the included angle a between the plane of the baffle 3 and the radial direction of the crushing cavity 11 satisfies: a is more than or equal to 30 degrees.

When being located the second position through with barrier plate 3, barrier plate 3 place plane and smash the radial contained angle a between chamber 11 and set up to satisfy a and be greater than or equal to 30, when avoiding barrier plate 3 to be located the second position, barrier plate 3 place plane and smash the radial contained angle a undersize between chamber 11 and lead to barrier plate 3 to produce great barrier effect to the liquid in smashing chamber 11, cause liquid can not fully splash to whole cup and cause the not good condition of cleaning performance.

As a preferred embodiment of the present application, the comminution cup 1 is further provided with a mixing chamber 12 above the comminution chamber 11, as shown in fig. 1, the comminution chamber 11 being constricted relative to the mixing chamber 12, a transition step 13 being formed between the comminution chamber 11 and the mixing chamber 12.

Through setting up crushing cup 1 to still having the mixing chamber 12 that is located crushing chamber 11 top for the volume of crushing cup 1 can enlarge, and the user can once only prepare more thick liquids and eat the material, has promoted the user and has used experience. And smash chamber 11 and mixing chamber 12 intercommunication and relative mixing chamber 12 shrink for the edible material that is located mixing chamber 12 can be under edible material self action of gravity to smashing chamber 11 extrusion, makes edible material concentrate on to smash and grind in the chamber 11, has improved and has smashed grinding efficiency.

Further, as shown in fig. 1, when the blocking plate 3 is located at the first position, the top wall of the blocking plate 3 is flush with the bottom wall of the transition step 13.

When being located the first position through with barrier plate 3, barrier plate 3's roof sets up to the form that flushes with the diapire of transition step 13, avoids the material to remove in crushing chamber 11 from mixing chamber 12 when, and the material is because barrier plate 3 and the high inconsistent jamming of transition step 13 are in the difference in height position, guarantees the smooth and easy nature that the material flows, avoids the material to remain in mixing chamber 12, further improves crushing efficiency.

It should be noted that the distance between the blocking plate 3 and the inner wall of the grinding cup 1 is not specifically limited in the present application, but as a preferred aspect of the present application, as shown in fig. 2, the distance L between the blocking plate 3 and the inner wall of the grinding cup 1 satisfies: l is more than or equal to 0.2mm and less than or equal to 1.5 mm.

The distance L between the barrier plate 3 and the inner wall of the crushing cup 1 is set to be 0.2mm or more and L or less than 1.5mm, the situation that the barrier plate 3 cannot overturn or even is blocked and can not overturn due to the fact that the material is blocked between the barrier plate 3 and the cup wall of the crushing cup 1 when the distance between the barrier plate 3 and the cup wall of the crushing cup 1 is too small is avoided, meanwhile, the situation that the distance between the barrier plate 3 and the cup wall of the crushing cup 1 is too large, the food processing machine is caused to process food materials, the materials can splash out through the gap between the inner wall of the crushing cup 1 and the barrier plate 3, the barrier plate 3 has a barrier function and is lowered, and the situation that the crushing efficiency of the crushing device 2 is lowered is caused.

As a preferred embodiment of the present application, the distance between the overturning shaft of the blocking plate 3 and the top wall of the crushing device 2 is not less than the overturning radius of the blocking plate 3.

Set up to be not less than the turning radius's of barrier plate 3 form through the distance between 2 roof of trip shaft with barrier plate 3 and reducing mechanism for barrier plate 3 can overturn to vertically arrange in crushing chamber 11 at the upset in-process, makes barrier plate 3 will be minimum to the effect that blocks of liquid, and the liquid of being convenient for more splashes to whole cup, realizes the abundant washing to smashing cup 1 and bowl cover.

The technical solutions protected by the present invention are not limited to the above embodiments, and it should be noted that the combination of the technical solution of any one embodiment and the technical solution of one or more other embodiments is within the protection scope of the present invention. Although the utility model has been described in detail above with reference to a general description and specific examples, it will be apparent to one skilled in the art that modifications or improvements may be made thereto based on the utility model. Accordingly, it is intended that all such modifications and alterations be included within the scope of this invention as defined in the appended claims.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a food processor, includes crushing cup, install crushing motor bottom crushing cup, by crushing motor drive's reducing mechanism, its characterized in that, be equipped with the barrier plate that runs through in the crushing cup, the barrier plate with the diapire of crushing cup encloses into crushing chamber, reducing mechanism is located crushing intracavity, the barrier plate has primary importance and second place, the barrier plate is located during the primary importance, the barrier plate transversely is in smash in the cup, just the barrier plate can by primary importance upset extremely the second place.

2. A food processor as claimed in claim 1, wherein the outside of the comminution cup is provided with drive means for driving the blocking plate in a reversing manner.

3. A food processor as claimed in claim 2, wherein the drive means comprises a drive motor, the motor shaft of which is connected to the blocking plate through the wall of the comminution cup.

4. A food processor as defined in claim 3, wherein the grinding cup has a through hole for the motor shaft to pass through, a sealing member and a positioning ring are provided between the motor shaft and the inner wall of the through hole, and the outer wall of the positioning ring is fixed to the inner wall of the through hole to support the motor shaft.

5. A food processor as defined in claim 2, wherein the drive means comprises a handle including a connecting portion and a gripping portion, the connecting portion being connected at one end to the blocking plate through the wall of the grinding cup and at the other end to the gripping portion outside the grinding cup.

6. A food processor as claimed in claim 1, wherein the blocking plate is located in the second position such that an angle a between a plane of the blocking plate and a radial direction of the size reduction chamber is such that: a is more than or equal to 30 degrees.

7. A food processor as defined in claim 1, wherein the grinding cup further has a mixing chamber located above the grinding chamber, the grinding chamber being constricted relative to the mixing chamber, a transition step being formed between the grinding chamber and the mixing chamber.

8. A food processor as claimed in claim 7, wherein the top wall of the blocking plate is flush with the bottom wall of the transition step when the blocking plate is in the first position.

9. A food processor as defined in claim 1, wherein the distance L between the blocking plate and the inner wall of the grinding cup is such that: l is more than or equal to 0.2mm and less than or equal to 1.5 mm.

10. A food processor as defined in claim 1, wherein the distance between the turnover axis of the barrier plate and the top wall of the comminuting device is not less than the turnover radius of the barrier plate.