Motorized frothing mug and method of using same
AssigneeOntel Products Corporation
InventorAshok Khubani
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Abstract
A frothing mug includes a mug portion holding a first liquid, a whisk extending into the mug portion, a means for rotating the whisk and a base supporting the mug portion and the whisk and providing the means for rotating the whisk to aerate the liquid. A method of frothing a liquid using the mug includes pouring a quantity of a first liquid into the mug portion such that a portion of the whisk is, or will be, exposed to the air and a portion of the whisk is, or will be, immersed in the first liquid, activating the means for rotating the whisk to froth the liquid and deactivating the means for rotating the whisk after the first liquid is sufficiently frothy.
Claims16
A method of preparing and drinking a beverage having a first liquid, which is aerated, and a second liquid in a mug having a mug portion and a coil loop whisk extending into the mug portion from a base which supports the mug portion and the coil loop whisk and provides means for rotating the coil loop whisk, comprising the steps of:
- pouring a quantity of the first liquid into the mug portion such that a level of the first liquid in the mug portion is at least at a height of the coil loop whisk;
- activating the means for rotating the coil loop whisk to rotate the coil loop whisk so as to aerate the first liquid;
- deactivating the means for rotating the coil loop whisk after the first liquid has achieved a desired frothy consistency;
- pouring the second liquid into the mug portion such that the first liquid having the desired frothy consistency floats on the second liquid;
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- drinking the beverage from the mug portion.
A method of preparing and drinking a beverage having a first liquid, which is aerated, and a second liquid in a mug having a mug portion and a coil loop whisk extending into the mug portion from a base which supports the mug portion and the coil loop whisk and provides a means for rotating the coil loop whisk comprising the steps of:
- pouring a quantity of the first liquid into the mug portion;
- tilting the mug in a first direction such that a portion of a coil portion of the coil loop whisk is immersed in the first liquid and a remaining portion of the coil portion is exposed to air;
- activating the means for rotating the coil loop whisk to rotate the coil loop whisk so as to aerate the first liquid;
- deactivating the means for rotating the coil loop whisk after the first liquid has achieved a desired frothy consistency;
- pouring the second liquid into the mug portion such that the first liquid having the desired frothy consistency floats on the second liquid;
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- drinking the beverage from the mug portion.
A mug for preparing and drinking a beverage having a first liquid, which is aerated;
- and a second liquid comprising:
- a mug portion adapted to hold the first liquid to be aerated, to receive and hold the second liquid with the first liquid after the first liquid has achieved a desired frothy consistency in the mug, and to be drunk from;
- a coil loop whisk extending into the mug portion and adapted to aerate the first liquid;
- a base on which the mug portion is mounted and that supports the mug portion and the coil loop whisk;
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- means for rotating the coil loop whisk housed in the base with a shaft extending through a top surface of the base into the mug portion and connected to the coil loop whisk, wherein the means for rotating the coil loop whisk rotates the coil loop whisk to aerate the first liquid to a desired frothy consistency before the second liquid is added.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.