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US 12,751,579 B2Granted
Cover and motor mount for food blender sound enclosure
AssigneeConair Corporation
InventorDavid William Beckstrom
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Abstract
A food processing system includes a processing container having a motor-driven processing blade positioned at a bottom of the processing container, a lid receivable atop the processing container, a motor-driven dasher assembly connected to the lid and being configured to scrape interior sidewalls of the processing container, the motor-driven dasher assembly having a hub, and a motor having an output shaft. The output shaft is moveable between a raised position where the output shaft is vertically spaced from the hub of the motor-driven dasher assembly, and a lowered position where the output shaft is engaged with the hub.
Claims17
A food processing system, comprising:
- a processing container having a motor-driven processing blade positioned at a bottom of the processing container;
- a lid receivable atop the processing container;
- a motor-driven dasher assembly connected to the lid and being configured to scrape interior sidewalls of the processing container, the motor-driven dasher assembly having a hub;
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- a motor having an output shaft located outside the processing container, at least the output shaft being moveable, while the lid is received atop the processing container, between a raised position where the output shaft is vertically spaced from the hub of the motor-driven dasher assembly, and a lowered position where the output shaft is engaged with the hub.
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A food processing system, comprising:
- a processing container having a motor-driven processing blade positioned at a bottom of the processing container;
- a lid receivable atop the processing container;
- a motor-driven dasher assembly connected to the lid and being configured to scrape interior sidewalls of the processing container, the motor-driven dasher assembly having a hub;
- a motor having an output shaft, at least the output shaft being moveable between a raised position where the output shaft is vertically spaced from the hub of the motor-driven dasher assembly, and a lowered position where the output shaft is engaged with the hub;
- a sound enclosure, the sound enclosure being moveable between a closed position and an open position;
- wherein movement of the sound enclosure from the closed position to the open position causes a corresponding movement of the output shaft from the lowered position to the raised position.
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A food processing system, comprising:
- a processing container having a motor-driven processing blade positioned at a bottom of the processing container;
- a lid receivable atop the processing container;
- a motor-driven dasher assembly connected to the lid and being configured to scrape interior sidewalls of the processing container, the motor-driven dasher assembly having a hub;
- a motor having an output shaft, at least the output shaft being moveable between a raised position where the output shaft is vertically spaced from the hub of the motor-driven dasher assembly, and a lowered position where the output shaft is engaged with the hub;
- a base configured to support the processing container;
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- a support member extending from the base;
- wherein the motor is operatively connected to the support member for linear movement along the support member.
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A method for food processing, comprising the steps of:
- coupling a dasher assembly to a processing container such that a scraper blade of the dasher assembly is disposed within the processing container;
- positioning the processing container on a base of a food processor so as to engage a blade hub of the processing container with a rotatable output shaft of a motor housed in the base;
- lowering a dasher motor to drivingly connect an output shaft of the dasher motor with a drive hub of the dasher assembly;
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- actuating the dasher motor to rotate the scraper blade within the processing container;
- wherein the step of lowering the dasher motor is carried out automatically by closing a front cover member of a sound enclosure to enclose the processing container.
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A food processing system, comprising:
- a base having a motor;
- a support member extending from the base;
- a processing container having a motor-driven processing blade positioned at a bottom of the processing container and engageable with an output shaft of the motor in the base;
- a lid receivable atop the processing container;
- a dasher assembly connected to the lid and having at least one scraper blade disposed in the processing container and being configured to scrape interior sidewalls of the processing container;
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- a dasher motor positioned above the processing container, the dasher motor having an output shaft that is selectively engageable with the dasher assembly, the dasher motor being configured to rotate the at least one scraper blade upon actuation of the dasher motor;
- wherein the output shaft of the dasher motor is moveable between a raised position where the output shaft is vertically spaced from the dasher assembly, and a lowered position where the output shaft is engaged with the dasher assembly;
- wherein the dasher motor is operatively connected to the support member for linear movement along the support member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.