US 10,703,554 B2 · Condiment dispenser-X

Abstract

A condiment dispenser which is activated by an electrical vibrator is described. The dispenser has a container with a storage space filled with condiment. The bottom wall of the container is riddled with a multiplicity of spreading apertures. At the idle state the vibrator is deactivated and the apertures are blocked by a banded frame. The blocking frame isolates the condiment and prevents atmospheric moisture accumulation. At the active state the activated vibrator vibrates the condiment while the banded frame is moved such that the apertures are uncovered and facilitate condiment spreading. A multiple condiments dispenser is also presented. The multiple condiments dispenser has several separate containers and a vibrator which can vibrate all the condiments. The user selects which particular condiment to dispense by pressing the button which uncovers the apertures of the selected container while activating the vibrator.

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Dependent claims

A condiment dispenser comprising of:

a vibrator and
a condiment container comprising:
a storage space filled with the condiment;
wherein the storage space is confined within:
a set of surrounding walls, a bottom wall situated at a bottom side of the storage space and a top wall situated at a top side of the storage space;
wherein the bottom wall includes a multiplicity of dispensing apertures;
wherein the vibrator is configured to vibrate and also to vibrate the condiment when the vibrator is in an active state;
wherein when the vibrator is in the active state, the vibrator is configured to facilitate dispensing the condiment via the multiplicity of dispensing apertures;
wherein the storage space comprises:
an input opening;
wherein the input opening is situated at the top side of the storage space and is configured to facilitate supplementing the condiment container with the condiment;
wherein the input opening is equipped with a rotatable door which has an opened position in which the rotatable door facilitates supplementation of the condiment into the container;
wherein the rotatable door has a closed position in which the rotatable door hermetically seals the input opening.

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A condiment dispenser comprising of

a vibrator and
a condiment container comprising:
a storage space filled with the condiment;
wherein the storage space is confined within:
a set of surrounding walls, a bottom wall situated at a bottom side of the storage space and a top wall situated at a top side of the storage space;
wherein the bottom wall includes a multiplicity of dispensing apertures;
wherein the vibrator is configured to vibrate and also to vibrate the condiment when the vibrator is in an active state;
wherein when the vibrator is in the active state, the vibrator is configured to facilitate dispensing the condiment via the multiplicity of dispensing apertures;
the condiment dispenser comprising:
an electrical power source and an electrical switch;
wherein the electrical switch is electrically connected to the vibrator and to the electrical power source;
wherein activating the electrical switch switches the vibrator into the active state in which the vibrator is vibrating;
wherein when the electrical switch is not activated the vibrator is in an inactive state in which the vibrator is not vibrating;
wherein the storage space comprises:
a banded frame situated on a top side of the bottom wall;
wherein the banded frame comprises of a multiplicity of spaced bands which are configured to cover the multiplicity of dispensing apertures and to block the multiplicity of dispensing apertures when the banded frame is in a blocking position;
wherein when the banded frame is in an unblocking position, the multiplicity of spaced bands are configured not to cover the multiplicity of dispensing apertures and do not block the multiplicity of dispensing apertures;
wherein, at the unblocking position, the banded frame facilitates dispensation of the condiment via the multiplicity of dispensing apertures when the vibrator is in the active state;
wherein the vibrator is mechanically attached by a vibrating bar to the banded frame;
wherein the vibrator facilitates moving the banded frame into the unblocking position when the vibrator is switched into the active state;
wherein the vibrator facilitates moving the banded frame into the blocking position when the vibrator is switched into the inactive state.

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A condiment dispenser comprising of:

a vibrator and
a condiment container comprising:
a storage space filled with the condiment;
wherein the storage space is confined within:
a set of surrounding walls, a bottom wall situated at a bottom side of the storage space and a top wall situated at a top side of the storage space;
wherein the bottom wall includes a multiplicity of dispensing apertures;
wherein the vibrator is configured to vibrate and also to vibrate the condiment when the vibrator is in an active state;
wherein when the vibrator is in the active state, the vibrator is configured to facilitate dispensing the condiment via the multiplicity of dispensing apertures;
wherein the condiment dispenser comprising:
an electrical power source and an electrical switch;
wherein the electrical switch is electrically connected to the vibrator and to the electrical power source;
wherein activating the electrical switch switches the vibrator into the active state in which the vibrator is vibrating;
wherein when the electrical switch is not activated the vibrator is in an inactive state in which the vibrator is not vibrating;
wherein the storage space comprises:
a banded frame situated on a top side of the bottom wall;
wherein the banded frame comprises of a multiplicity of spaced bands which are configured to cover the multiplicity of dispensing apertures and to block the multiplicity of dispensing apertures when the banded frame is in a blocking position;
wherein when the banded frame is in an unblocking position, the multiplicity of spaced bands are configured not to cover the multiplicity of dispensing apertures and do not block the multiplicity of dispensing apertures;
wherein, at the unblocking position, the banded frame facilitates dispensation of the condiment via the multiplicity of dispensing apertures when the vibrator is in the active state;
wherein the electrical switch has a pressing button which facilitates manual activation of the electrical switch when pressed;
wherein the pressing button also is mechanically connected with the banded frame using a sliding bar;
wherein the pressing button is configured to move the banded frame into the unblocking position when pressed;
wherein the pressing button is equipped with a retaining spring which moves back the pressing button and deactivates the electrical switch when the pressing button is not pressed;
wherein the retaining spring also moves back the sliding bar and the banded frame into the blocking position when the pressing button is not pressed.

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A multiple condiments dispenser comprising of:

a vibrator and
at least two condiment containers each of said condiment containers comprising:
a particular storage space filled with a particular condiment;
wherein each of the particular storage spaces is confined within:
a particular set of surrounding walls, a particular bottom wall situated at a bottom side of the particular storage space and a particular top wall situated at a top side of the particular storage space;
wherein the particular bottom wall includes a particular multiplicity of dispensing apertures;
wherein the vibrator is structurally attached to the multiple condiments dispenser;
wherein the vibrator is configured to vibrate and also to vibrate all the particular condiments in the multiple condiments dispenser when the vibrator is in an active state;
wherein when the vibrator is in the active state, the vibrator is configured to facilitate dispensing each of the particular condiments via the particular multiplicity of dispensing apertures situated at the particular storage space;
the multiple condiments dispenser comprising:
an electrical power source and a multiplicity of particular electrical switches;
wherein all the particular electrical switches are electrically connected in parallel to the vibrator and to the electrical power source;
wherein activating any of the particular electrical switches, is switching the vibrator into the active state in which the vibrator is vibrating;
wherein when all the particular electrical switches are not activated the vibrator is in an inactive state in which the vibrator is not vibrating.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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