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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8074915 | Container with a grinder A container for holding an edible liquid has a storage chamber for holding the liquid. The storage chamber has at least one outlet. The container also has an ingredient chamber separate from the storage chamber and for holding a flavor enhancing ingredient. A grinde... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7886999 | Food grinder A grinder for a food item includes a top shell having a top axis, a top inner surface disposed about the top axis, and a plurality of top teeth extending downwardly from the top inner surface. The grinder further includes a bottom shell having a bottom axis, a botto... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7793874 | Grinder and automatic open/close control device thereof A grinder including a hollow base, a receptacle, an automatic open/close control device, a grinding unit, and a housing. The automatic open/close control device has a follower member, a bottom cover, a position-limitation structure, and a torsion spring connected be... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7699251 | Device for dividing medications and method of using the same The present invention is a device for cutting solid medications, whether in the form of capsules, tablets or pills. When cutting capsules, the capsules are retained to be divided by a first blade. Tablets and other forms of the medication are retained by pill stabil... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7694906 | Device for continuously controlling condiments grinding in a mill A device for adjusting the grinding of a condiment in a mill includes a drive element having a thimble 6, a thimble support 4, a wheel 9 and a fixing ring 11 for attachment to the mill. Rotational movement of an adjustment ring 3 f... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7481388 | Mounting arrangement for an appliance A kitchen appliance apparatus (10) mountable on a work surface (12) for performing a culinary function includes a culinary unit (14) and a base (16) for the culinary unit. The apparatus (10) includes a suction assembly (48) ... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7427041 | Pill crusher A pill crusher has a paper cup receptacle having an upwardly open, frusto-conical recess for receiving a paper cup, a plunger having a frusto-conical shape complimentary to that of the recess, the plunger being above and coaxial with the recess, an electric motor an... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7422169 | Manually drivable apparatus for comminuting foods A cover (1) has a base (2) to which a vessel (5) can be nonrotatably attached and a cap (3) which is rotatable relative to the base (2) and has, via a gear (4) arranged in the cover (1) and having a transmission ratio... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7422170 | Leaves and seeds hand grinder A grinder includes a grinder housing having a grinder actuator, a first grinding plate, a second grinding plate and a detachable coupling arrangement. The first grinding plate is detachably coupling with the grinder actuator, wherein the first grinding plate has a p... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7416143 | Tablet crusher The invention is a tablet crusher including a linkage that is operable to bring to bear a force on a platen so as to urge it against an anvil, wherein platen and anvil are shaped so as to bring about a crushing force upon a tablet disposed therebetween. The device c... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7413137 | Manual pill crusher A manually operable pill crusher device for use with pill pouches. A base includes a crushing surface over which a head is mounted. A handle is attached to a cam inside the head, and the head has a slot that permits the handle to move from a horizontal position to a... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7387267 | Foodstuff crushing and blending apparatus A foodstuff crusher/blender has a hollow body defining a closed elongate cavity. An access device, such as complementary screwthreads on respective ends of two portions of the body, enables the introduction and removal of foodstuff into and from the cavity. A crushi... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7371699 | Net-reinforced film structure with modified strand profile A net-reinforced film structure includes a film layer and a netting attached to the film layer having a pattern of netting strands. The netting strands are sealed to an opposing film structure, which may be either a similar net-reinforced film or a standard sheet of... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367519 | Processing tool for foodstuffs A processing tool for garlic and like edibles including a container mounted comminuting unit having-upper-and lower sets of spaced linearly aligned blades selectively presented in an upwardly directed operating position upon an inverting of the unit, the blades of e... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364102 | Pill crusher with gear rack A pill crusher having a rack and pinion advancing a platen. Pill crushers are used to crush pills into powder for various medicinal reasons, such as ease of mixing or dosing. A rack on a slide way is linearly advanced by rotational movement of a pinion on a handle. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7337997 | Food slicing device A hand-held device for reducing the size of food items, for example by slicing or grating. The disclosed device has a slicing drum transversally inserted into an aperture on a lateral wall of a casing. Preferably, both the drum and its size reducing members, such as... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7331266 | Paper punch with two articulated linkages A paper punch has a base, two cutters, two articulated linkages and a lever. The base has a top, an open bottom, a cavity, two punch holes and two brackets. The punch holes are defined through the top. The brackets are mounted on the top and each bracket has two gui... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328865 | Peppermill lid A peppermill includes a body having upper and lower ends and defining a cavity extending between the upper and lower ends. The body defines a gap extending therethrough substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the body. A grinding mechanism is positione... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7293728 | Electric spice mill An electric spice mill comprising a power unit coupled to the motor of the mill, the power unit comprising: (i) first and second electric circuits; (ii) a switch in electrical contact with said first and said second electric circuits; and (iii) an actuator movable b... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7252254 | Pill crusher and splitter A pill or tablet crusher and splitter using a combination lever and screw action. A lever attached to a ring having an internal screw thread advances a transversely movable platen towards a transversely fixed or placed anvil crushing a pill or tablet placed between ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7249724 | Compact disc destruction device An apparatus for destroying compact discs includes a base and a cover. The base has a mounting fixture capable of holding a CD and an anvil projecting upwardly from the base bottom panel. The cover is hingedly attached to one of the base walls such that the cover ca... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7222806 | Condiment mill A condiment mill for products such as dry garlic or citrus fruit peels includes a conventional container (2) for containing the condiment, a grinding mechanism (3) fixed to the bottom of the container (2), and a rotatable knob (4) which i... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7223431 | Method for shredding blocks of material A method of shredding a block of material, which can be a block of cheese, includes moving blades about an axis and feeding a block of material in a feed plane toward the moving blades in a feeding direction, where the feeding direction is substantially perpendicula... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7204440 | Slicing condiment grinder A condiment grinder has a main container with a top rotatable drive portion having Drive arms are rotatably mounted in the bottom portion of the container in a compartment formed between a flat top plate and a flat bottom plate having cutting blades formed therein. ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7159810 | Food contact device A food contact device including a handle member with a first end and a second end. The first end of the handle member includes a pressure enhancing structure. One or more blade elements are in direct or indirect contact with the second end of the handle member. In o... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7150214 | Vegetable cutter A vegetable chopper (10) includes a lower housing part (14), which has a knife (16) on its underside and receives a rotatable inner body with a chopping grid (20), the inner body (18) being fillable with the vegetable. Vegetable ch... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7077347 | Electric pepper mill An electric pepper mill is provided that is equipped with two terminal legs that normally do not touch each other, and a pressing block. When the pepper mill is in an upright position, the pressing block rests on the terminal legs to connect the terminal legs. circu... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7066071 | Food slicer A food slicer includes a frame with a food-receiving platform having an aperture therein. A reversible cutting blade has first and second cutting edges and is selectively removably mountable on the frame in first and second positions for respectively disposing the f... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7066418 | Combined pepper grinder and salt shaker A pepper grinder includes pepper and salt containers. The pepper container has first and second openings, through which first opening the container may be refilled with pepper seeds, and includes a pepper grinding mechanism in the second opening, through which groun... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7059553 | Manually drivable apparatus for comminuting foods A manually drivable apparatus for comminuting foods. The apparatus includes a substantially rotationally symmetrical vessel configured to receive a material to be cut, a substantially rotationally symmetrical removable cover configured to nonrotatably mount on the v... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7048216 | Pepper grinder A pepper grinder comprising a pepper seed bottle having upper and lower openings, through which upper opening the bottle may be refilled. A pepper grinding mechanism is provided in the lower bottle opening, through which ground pepper may be dispensed. The mechanism... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7040561 | Spice grinder A spice or peppercorn grinder including a cylinder body; an L-grooved barrel in the cylinder body; a top cap connected to a pressure drum slidably mounted in the L-grooved barrel, a rotatable ∞-shaped open-end long tube provided in a lower space of the pressure dr... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7032848 | Method and apparatus for hydromechanically disintegrating organic matter An apparatus for disintegrating waste matter preferably comprising a holding area for holding waste matter; and a fluid delivery mechanism for applying high pressure fluid to the holding area, wherein the high pressure fluid disintegrates the waste matter and applie... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7017843 | Hand-held food processor An improved hand-held food processor for performing selected cutting operations upon a foodstuff is disclosed comprising an elongated housing, a lever arm extended substantially through the housing and pivotally coupled thereto under a spring bias, and a processing ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6974098 | Culinary press with scraper A culinary press (2) has a pair of pivotably connected members (4, 6) one comprising a chamber for receiving a foodstuff and having a perforated surface (18), and the other a plunger (24) movable into the chamber for, in use, forcing food... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6966510 | Electric rotary grater An electric rotary grater including an external cylinder and a roller being sheathed into the external cylinder and having a stirring plate connected to a blocking edge of the external cylinder. A chamber is defined each on both sides of the stirring plate which is ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6962592 | Allograft implant cutting machine The present invention is an apparatus for cutting allograft bone implants from donor bone. Die sets of standard sizes are installed in a press. Donor bone is then placed in position between the upper and the lower parts of a matched cutting set comprising a hollow c... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6951314 | Condiment dispenser The invention provides a generally cylindrical, releasable interlocking arrangement comprising a lower portion having an inwardly-directed rim at its upper end, and an upper portion having outwardly-directed resilient members at an outer periphery thereof. The two p... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6948672 | Spice mill with means for infinitely setting the grinding fineness The present invention provides a spice mill, in particular a pepper mill, having an improved design for setting the fineness of ground particles produced by the mill. Outer grinding teeth are located within a fixed seat. The fixed seat is connected to a rotating sea... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6948671 | Pepper grinder operable with one hand and by pressing and releasing a lever repeatedly A pepper grinder includes a grinding mechanism, a rotary sleeve, and a depressed sleeve. The rotary sleeve is supported so as to not move down, and joined to an inner wheel of the grinding mechanism with a shaft; the depressed sleeve has several protrusions on an in... | 09/27/2005 |
