Bowl scraper attachment for planetary food mixer

Claim 1

In a food mixer having an upwardly-opening stationary cylindrical bowl, a depending beater shaft rotating on a vertical axis and a vertical depending drive shaft coaxial with the bowl and about which the beater shaft orbits when the bowl is in position to receive and contain product during mixing, said mixer further including means for driving said drive shaft at a preselected speed, a supporting member supported on said drive shaft and rotatably mounting said beater shaft radially-outward therefrom, external gear means on said beater shaft and cooperating stationary internal gear means on said food mixer for rotating the beater shaft at a speed higher than said preselected speed in response to rotation of said supporting member, and food beater means detachably mounted to said beater shaft, the improvement comprising: bowl scraper means removably mounted for rotation with said supporting member for scraping food product being mixed from the inner surface of said bowl and returning it to the path of orbital action and rotation of said beater means, said bowl scraper means including: bracket means mounted at the underside of said supporting member and a single, upwardly-directed bolt for fastening said bracket means to said drive shaft; cooperating means on said bracket means and said supporting member restraining said bracket means against angular movement about said single bolt; a radially-outwardly-and-downwardly depending scraper arm having a downwardly-extending scraper blade at its remote end for essentially vertically contacting the inner surface of said bowl; and means detachably mounting said scraper arm to said bracket means.