US 9,848,738 B2Granted

Food processor

AssigneeSharkNinja Operating LLC

InventorsDavid M. Audette, Alexander J. Calvino, Waiman Chung, Aric Jennings, Daniel Stephen Potter, Andrea Stavrinou, August Alden Drufke

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Abstract

A food processor is provided which includes a container, a blade assembly, and a base arranged such that the container is coupleable to the base. The base includes a housing and a motor configured to drive the blade assembly. The food processor further includes an actuator included with the container moveable between a first position and a second, extended position. When the container is coupled to the base and the actuator is in the second, extended position, the actuator is configured to actuate a switch to permit activation of the motor, and the base is constructed such that the container can be coupled to the base when the actuator is in the second, extended position.

Claims13

Dependent claims

A food processor base comprising:

a housing configured to be coupled to a food processor container, wherein the housing is constructed and arranged such that the food processor container is coupleable to the housing:
a motor within the housing, the motor configured to drive a blade assembly within the food process;
a switch within the housing, the switch constructed and arranged to permit activation of the motor;
and
wherein the housing includes at least one receptacle having a pathway configured to receive a container actuator of the food processor container, wherein the at least one receptacle includes an open side portion such that the food processor container can be coupled to the base when the container actuator is in both a first retracted position and a second extended position.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/295,845Filed 4 Jun 2014 · division
Priority: 27 Jul 2010
Published: US 2014/0346262 A127 Nov 2014
Granted: 26 Dec 2017
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Classification4 codes

A47J 43/0766
For machines with tools driven from the lower side: activated by the proper positioning of the mixing bowl
A47J 43/046
Machines for domestic use not covered elsewhere, e.g. for grinding, mixing, stirring, kneading, emulsifying, whipping or beating foodstuffs,…
A47J 43/0777
Activated by the proper positioning of the cover: in which the activating element on the cover transmits a signal to a safety device in the base…
A47J
Kitchen equipment

Family

Application61/367,973Us provisional application · filed 27 Jul 2010
Application13/031,684Parent of this division · filed 22 Feb 2011
US 2014/0346262 A1Pre-grant publication · published 27 Nov 2014
US 9,192,264 B2Parent of this division
US 2012/0024993 A1Published application
US 9,848,738 B2This patent

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