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Pasta extruder attachment for a food processor or the like having a base containing a motor and rotary tool drive, and the attachment including a housing for receiving a pasta mixture to be extruded. The housing carries means for cooperatively engaging an actuator means in the base. A barrel surroun

Pasta extruder attachment for a food processor or the like having a base containing a motor and rotary tool drive, and the attachment including a housing for receiving a pasta mixture to be extruded. The housing carries means for cooperatively engaging an actuator means in the base. A barrel surrounding a feedscrew is positioned in the housing with an opening in the barrel aligned with an opening in the housing for receiving the pasta mixture. An extrusion die bearing a plurality of orifices is mounted on the discharge end of the barrel.

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Pasta extruder apparatus adapted to be mounted as an attachment to the base of a food processor containing a motor drive and a vertical tool shaft rotated by the motor drive, said base having first actuator means for preventing operation of the motor drive unless said first actuator means is actuate

Pasta extruder apparatus adapted to be mounted as an attachment to the base of a food processor containing a motor drive and a vertical tool shaft rotated by the motor drive, said base having first actuator means for preventing operation of the motor drive unless said first actuator means is actuated, said pasta extruder apparatus comprising: a housing containing an extruder feedscrew mounted in a barrel for rotation about the axis of the feedscrew for forcing pasta mixture downstream in the barrel toward the downstream end of the barrel with extrusion die means mountable on the downstream end of the barrel through which the pasta mixture is extruded for forming the desired articles of food, said housing being mountable in operating position upon the base of a food processor, said housing containing a speed-reducing torque-increasing gear mechanism, a coupling connected to the input gear of said gear mechanism with the output of said gear mechanism being coupled to said feedscrew for turning said feedscrew in said barrel, said coupling being engaged in driven relationship with the tool drive shaft when the housing is mounted on said base for causing the rotation of said tool drive shaft to drive said coupling for transmitting greatly increased torque through said gear mechanism to said feedscrew for turning said feedscrew, said housing containing second actuator means which becomes aligned with said first actuator means when the housing is properly mounted on the base, said housing having a socket communicating with the upstream end of said barrel, said socket having an upright axis, a tray removably mountable on said housing, said tray being adapted to hold a pasta mixture in feedable relationship with a feedtube insertable down into said socket with the axis of said feedtube being aligned with the axis of said socket for allowing said tray to be rotated relative to the housing about the axis of said socket, said socket having fastening means engageable with said feedtube in locking relationship for locking the tray onto the housing when said tray is turned into a predetermined position about said axis of said socket, and said tray having third actuator means thereon engageable with said second actuator means for causing said second actuator means to actuate said first actuator means for enabling the motor drive to operate only after said housing has been properly mounted on said base and said feedtube has been inserted into said socket and said tray turned into said predetermined position.