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AssigneesJapan Home Supply Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagata Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKouichi Hatakeyama
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A combined centrifugal force (X+Y) is produced in a container (8) when the container on a distal end of an arm (3) circles around a main rotary shaft (2) of the arm and simultaneously rotates on its own rotary shaft (6) in harmony with the circling motion thereof. The starting ingredients for a food/beverage product are received in the container and subjected to the combined centrifugal force, so that the ingredients are processed into the food/beverage product. Various types of elements such as a sieve-like capsule member (10) detachably mounted in the container (8), a small concave-convex portion provided in an appropriate inner surface of the container (8), and/or a raised floor member (15) provided with a pair of a radial blade (12) and its corresponding radial slot (14) detachably mounted in the container are used to enhance the processing operation.
In an apparatus for processing the ingredients for a food/beverage product by using a combined centrifugal force (X+Y) generated inside a container (8) which is obliquely mounted on a raised oblique distal end (4) of a rotary arm (3) which rotates on a main rotary shaft (2), wherein said container (8) received therein said ingredients rotates on its own rotary shaft (2) and simultaneously circles around said main rotary shaft (2) to produce said combined centrifugal force (X+Y) inside said container (8), so that said ingredients are subjected to said combined centrifugal force (X+Y) and thereby mixed and kneaded together inside said container (8), the improvement wherein:
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