Vessel and method of agitating a liquid
OwnerCreighton Schlebachinventor
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Abstract
A vessel (10) and a method for agitating a liquid (50) in a main cavity (16) of t he vessel (10), are provided. The vessel (10) includes a dividing member (40), extending deformable pump cavity (20). To agitate the liquid (50), a user presses a flexing wall (26) of the pump cavity (20), in pumping cycles, to discharge liquid from the pump cavity (20) through nozzles (42,44) into the main cavity (16). The dividing member (40) has a sloping upper surface, which causes additives (38) to collect in the region of the nozzles (44), to be agitated more effectively.
Claims21
A vessel comprising:
- a bottom wall and a peripheral wall, defining a main cavity for holding a liquid;
- a deformable member extending on an outside of the vessel proximate the bottom wall, to define a deformable cavity that is in flow communication with the main cavity of the vessel through at least one nozzle, the internal volume of the deformable cavity being variable by deformation of the deformable member;
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- at least one dividing member extending at least in part between the deformable cavity and the main cavity;
- wherein the dividing member extends at an angle relative to the bottom wall to form a trough adjacent the lower edge of the dividing member and adjacent at least one of the nozzles.
A method of agitating a liquid in a main cavity of a vessel, said method including:
- filling a deformable cavity at least in part with some of the liquid from the main cavity;
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- pressing a part of the deformable cavity's periphery to discharge some of the liquid from within the deformable cavity into the main cavity of the vessel through at least one nozzle, thereby agitating the liquid in the main cavity,
- wherein heavier components of the liquid that are separated from the liquid under gravity, slide along a dividing member that extends at least in part between the deformable cavity and the main cavity at an angle relative to a bottom wall of the vessel, to collect in a trough adjacent at least one nozzle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.