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US 5,655,834 AGranted
Blender appliance with beveled blade portions
AssigneeK-TEC, Inc.
InventorThomas D. Dickson
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Abstract
A blender appliance for blending food includes a base with a motor therein. A blender receptacle is removably mounted on the base so that the motor will rotate a blade mounted in the receptacle. The blade is mounted midway along its length for rotation about on axis of rotation. The blade includes blade end tips extending upwardly parallel with the axis of rotation or alternative substantially perpendicularly to the blade adjacent its ends. The blade tips are beveled outwardly and rearwardly from their leading edges and the blade is also beveled downwardly and rearwardly from its leading edges.
Claims17
A blender appliance, comprising:
- a base;
- an electric motor mounted in the base;
- a receptacle having walls and mountable on the base;
- means for rotatably mounting a blade in the receptacle;
- a single, elongate blade having ends and a length and mounted midway along its length to the means for rotatably mounting a blade in the receptacle for rotation about an axis of rotation in a direction of rotation;
- blade tips extending upwardly from the ends of the blade and substantially perpendicularly to the blade adjacent its ends with unobstructed space between the blade tips and the receptacle walls, said blade tips each having an inward surface generally facing toward the axis of rotation of the blade, and being beveled outwardly and rearwardly from the inward surface to form a leading edge in the direction of rotation of the blade;
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- means for coupling the means for rotatably mounting a blade to the electric motor to cause rotation of the blade in the receptacle when the receptacle is mounted on the base.
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A blender appliance, comprising:
- a base;
- an electric motor mounted in the base;
- a receptacle having walls and mountable on the base;
- means for rotatably mounting a blade in the receptacle;
- a single, elongate blade having ends and a length and mounted midway along its length to the means for rotatably mounting a blade in the receptacle for rotation about an axis of rotation in a direction of rotation;
- blade tips extending upwardly from the ends of the blade and substantially parallel to the axis of rotation with unobstructed space between the blade tips and the receptacle walls, said blade tips each having an inward surface generally facing toward the axis of rotation of the blade, and being beveled outwardly and rearwardly from the inward surface to form a leading edge in the direction of rotation of the blade;
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- means for coupling the means for rotatably mounting a blade to the electric motor to cause rotation of the blade in the receptacle when the receptacle is mounted on the base.
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A blender receptacle for use as part of a blender appliance, said blender appliance including a blender receptacle and a blender base, comprising:
- a receptacle having walls and mountable on the base;
- means for rotatably mounting a blade in the receptacle;
- an elongate blade having ends and a length and mounted midway along its length to the means for rotatably mounting a blade in the receptacle for rotation about an axis of rotation in a direction of rotation;
- blade tips extending upwardly from the ends of the blade and substantially parallel to the axis of rotation with unobstructed space between the blade tips and the receptacle walls, said blade tips each having an inward surface generally facing toward the axis of rotation of the blade, and being beveled outwardly and rearwardly from the inward surface to form a leading edge in the direction of rotation of the blade;
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- means for coupling the means for rotatably mounting a blade to a blender appliance base to cause rotation of the blade in the receptacle when the receptacle is mounted on a blender appliance base.
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A blender appliance, comprising a base;
- an electric motor mounted in the base and oriented and attached perpendicularly to said base, said motor having a housing with a horizontally oriented platform member disposed above said motor, and an output motor armature shaft extending through said platform;
- a plurality of post members extending in a direction parallel with the motor armature shaft from the platform member of the motor housing;
- a blender drive socket on the end of the motor armature shaft above the platform member;
- a base cover including post receiving extensions thereon for receiving the post members therein for securely positioning the base cover with respect to the motor;
- a receptacle having feet to receive the post receiving extensions of the base cover;
- means for rotatably mounting a blade in the receptacle;
- an elongate blade mounted midway along its length to the means for rotatably mounting a blade for rotation in the receptacle;
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- means coupling the means for rotatably mounting a blade to the blender drive socket when the receptacle is positioned over the post receiving extensions.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.