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US 12,262,849 B2Granted
Modular hand-held kitchen applicance
AssigneeBlack & Decker Inc.
InventorsOleksiy Sergyeyenko, Thomas Landis, Michael C. Doyle, Kendall Nohe, Ashok Baskar, Andrew Cross, Daniel Langford
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to a hand-held modular kitchen multitool having a universal powerhead capable of being used with a variety of kitchen appliance attachments, such as a blender, a whisker, a wine opener, a can opener, and a spice grinder. A dual spice grinder attachment is also disclosed that can select one of two spices to grind. Also disclosed is a wine opener that automatically removes a cork from a bottle.
Claims4
A modular kitchen appliance, comprising:
- a powerhead having motor with a drive shaft;
- a grinder attachment removably attached to the powerhead, the grinder attachment having an attachment shaft that's connected to the drive shaft of the motor;
- the attachment shaft connected to a drive axle operatively connected to a first slip gear and a second slip gear;
- the first slip gear connected to a first grinder and the second slip gear connected to a second grinder;
- a hopper capable of holding two different materials for grinding;
- a spice selector wheel has a protrustion that projects over from the bottom of the wheel and is movable over one of the first slip gear or second slip gear preventing the top gear wheel from separating from the bottom gear wheel;
- and wherein in a first mode of operation, the first slip gear transfer power to the first grinder and the second slip gear does not transfer power to the second grinder, and in a second mode of operation the second slip gear transfer power to the second grinder and the first slip gear does not transfer power to the first grinder.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.