Portable ingredients system
OwnerDaniel Jeffrey Mcmathinventor
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Abstract
A portable ingredients system is provided. An example assembly attaches to the side of a kettle, mixing bowl, pot, vat, or vessel and adds ingredients at programmed intervals. In an implementation, only that part of the assembly that adds the ingredients is located over the kettle or vessel. In an implementation, a microprocessor controls a stepper motor to precisely drive a rotary dispenser containing the ingredients to be added separately at time intervals. The example assembly may be preloaded with ingredients for a recipe, such as for mixing a batter, making a soup, or brewing a beer, for example. The assembly may be preprogrammed with one or more electronic recipes for instructing the microprocessor to create the intended food or drink item using ingredients, such as preloaded ingredients.
Claims20
A portable ingredients system, comprising:
- a base plate;
- a turntable rotatably attached to the base plate;
- gear teeth integrated into the turntable;
- a motor attached to the base plate for rotating the turntable by engaging the gear teeth in a reduction-gear relationship;
- containers attached to the turntable for sequentially passing ingredients into the vessel through a hole in the base plate;
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- a mounting assembly for removably attaching the base plate to a vessel such that only a portion of the base plate that has the hole is over an open top of the vessel.
An ingredient addition device, comprising:
- a rotating mechanism having a plurality of vertically oriented tubes arranged in a circle equidistant from a center point and having a connection to a motor;
- a base plate with an approximate diameter of an outer radius of the rotating mechanism and a hole for passing an ingredient contained in one of the vertically oriented tubes through the base plate;
- the motor connected to the rotating assembly and the base plate such that activating the motor turns the rotating assembly relative to the base plate;
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- a programmable controller to control the motor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.