Stick mixer

A hand held stick mixer device having a motor housing, a stem and a blade housing, the blade housing comprising:

• a portion that extends from the stem within which is located a rotating blade;
• an interior floor through which protrudes a shaft for driving rotation of the blade;
• a downwardly directed interior sidewall extending below the interior floor;
• the interior sidewall having a distance across a transverse axis that is smaller than a distance across a perpendicular axis;
• the interior sidewall being a peripheral sidewall that defines an elongate profile in horizontal cross section;
• such that the interior sidewall, in horizontal cross section, forms a pair of parallel straight side portions that each transition into arcuate end portions to adjoin respective ends of the parallel straight side portions;
• the arcuate end portions being located about the perpendicular axis, and the side portions being parallel to the perpendicular axis;
• wherein the blade is centrally located with respect to the interior sidewall and sweeps a circle in a horizontal plane, and any area in the horizontal plane within the interior sidewall that is not swept by the blade defines a void space;
• such that the void space about each side of the interior sidewall adjacent to the perpendicular axis is greater than the void space about the interior sidewall adjacent to the transverse axis;
• and each void space about the perpendicular axis has a vertically directed rib located on, and directed inwardly from, the arcuate end.