Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8083167 | Portable leaf grinding device A portable leaf grinding device (PLGD 10) that is used to grind a substance such as a plurality of compacted leaves into a multiplicity of leaf particles. The PLGD (10) consists of a circular cap (12), a cone-shaped hollow structure (84) ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8038087 | Spice grinders A spice grinder includes a first component (12) that can be secured to the neck of a spice container, and a second component (14) that is mounted on the first component (12) for rotation with respect thereto. The first and second components (... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8033488 | Ergonomic portable pill crusher tool and system An ergonomic portable pill crusher tool includes an elongate handle having a first axis, and a shaft having an offset portion and a work portion. The offset portion is connected to the handle. The offset portion has a second axis arranged to be oblique with respect ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7975948 | Food processing system Apparatuses, systems, and methods for processing system foodstuff are shown and described. Food processing systems can hold and prepare food for consumption. The disclosed embodiments can be quickly and conveniently used to dry, grind, mill, dispense, or otherwise p... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7967229 | Adjustable grinder An adjustable grinder, includes a container, a stator, a rotor, a drum, and a rotary slide. The container can hold a product to be ground. The stator is positioned on the container. The rotor is positioned opposite to the stator and can rotate with respect to the st... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7954744 | Rolling food processor A rolling food processor includes a body forming a chamber, a blade assembly, and a roller assembly. The blade assembly may include a hub and a plurality of blades mounted about the hub and positioned within the chamber, the blade assembly being rotatably coupled to... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7896273 | Ergonomic portable pill crusher tool and system An ergonomic portable pill crusher tool includes an elongate handle having a first axis, and a shaft having an offset portion and a work portion. The offset portion is connected to the handle. The offset portion has a second axis arranged to be oblique with respect ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7823819 | Pill crushing device and its associated method of operation A pill crushing device and its associated method of operation. The pill container is comprised of a container and a lid assembly that covers the container. A pill to be crushed is placed inside the container and is automatically crushed using the power of a battery ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7806354 | Condiment mill A condiment mill is disclosed having a first sleeve, a second sleeve rotatably attached to the second sleeve, a grinding apparatus operably disposed within the first sleeve and the second sleeve, a sliding cap slidably mounted over the first sleeve and the second sl... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7802742 | Multipurpose cassette for adjusting a grinder on a mechanical or electrical condiment mill or on a device for finely breaking foodstuff A device for adjusting a condiment grinder or a foodstuff breaking unit includes a cassette having an adjusting ring (3), a dish-supporting slide (2) and a fixing washer (1). ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7793875 | Apparatus for decomposting compressed tablets The present invention relates to novel improvements to an apparatus for uniformly decomposing compressed tablets into a uniform size powder form. More particularly, the present invention is directed to improvements to the rotor cap of the apparatus allowing the roto... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7784721 | Spice grinding and dispensing device A spice grinding and dispensing device generally intended to be used for grinding one spice in a first portion and a second spice in the other portion. Each portion of the dual spice grinder includes a handle or trigger that activates an independent rasp mechanism. ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7775467 | Electric condiment grinder A cordless electric condiment grinder includes a hollow housing elongated to extend between a base for supporting the grinder uprightly and an opposing top, the top of the housing having a bulbous form to define a condiment reservoir. A rotary grinding mechanism is ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7762488 | Electric pepper can A pepper can includes a grinding mechanism, a rotary driving unit, and a controlling unit to make the rotary driving unit switch between its on and off states; the controlling unit includes two magnetic electricity-conducting pieces, which are electrically connected... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7762487 | Manually drivable food cutter A manually drivable food cutter includes a cap with a axle journal, a blade shaft including one or more blades disposed thereon, a vessel connected to the blade shaft, a base connecting the cap and the vessel, a gear shaft set above the base, and a gear part transmi... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7735763 | Pill crusher with pill holder verification and safety features A pill crusher device and method including a base and a lid movable between open and closed positions with respect to the base. The base includes a pill cup holder for holding a cup with one or more pills therein. The cup may include a flange that is keyed to the cu... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7726595 | Pepper mill A pepper mill includes a receiving unit defining a receiving space, a grinding unit disposed at one end of the receiving space, and a stop unit dividing the receiving space into first and second space portions that are respectively distal from and proximate to the g... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7708220 | Electric dual condiment grinder A cordless electric dual condiment grinder includes a hollow housing elongated to extend between a base for supporting the grinder uprightly and an opposing top, the top of the housing having a bulbous form to define two condiment reservoirs (e.g. for receiving salt... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7699252 | Outlet device of a grinder A grinder includes a body, which has a holding room in a bottom portion thereof; the grinder includes a rotating operational component on an upper end of the body, and a grinding mechanism in an upper portion of the holding room; the rotating operational component a... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7673828 | Pepper mill A peppermill includes a receiving unit that surrounds an axis and that defines a receiving space for receiving peppercorns, a grinding unit that includes a coupling shaft disposed rotatably in the receiving space and having a shaft hole extending therethrough along ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7637447 | Dual condiment grinder A grinder having two condiment-receiving compartments each with a respective rotary grinding mechanism dispenses from one or other of the compartments depending upon whether a rotary input is turned clockwise or anticlockwise. First and second gear trains transmit t... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7604191 | Grinder A grinder comprised of a driving unit, a hollow base, a grinding device, and a container. When lifting the container to disengage an engagement portion of the container from a top engagement portion of the hollow base and to compress an elastic member against a holl... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7604192 | Grinding apparatus for a condiment grinder A light weight, low cost grinder assembly for a pepper grinder includes male and female rotary grinding members spaced to create between them a gap which determines the size of the ground pepper. Each of the male and female members is a composite of a polymer part a... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7604189 | Electric seasoning mill An electric seasoning mill includes a body having first and second holding rooms adjacent first and second ends. A motor is housed between the first and second ends. The motor has first and second output shafts extending toward the first and second ends; the first a... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7604190 | Discharge opening and power control structure of a grinder A discharge opening and power control structure of a grinder is disclosed to include a grinder body, which has a discharge opening for discharge of the ground powder and a battery chamber with a positive and negative contacts extended out of the grinder body, and a ... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7591439 | Electric Condiment Grinder with Epicyclic Geartrain A grinder for condiments such as pepper has a grinding rotor mounted to rotate relative to a grinding stator for grinding the condiment therebetween. An speed-reducing epicyclic geartrain is connected for transmitting torque between a motor and the rotor. The geartr... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7543771 | Mill for grinding edible particles A mill for grinding edible particles is composed of a main body, a rotating knob, a shaft, a cover, a grinding base, a grinding block, a rotator, an anti-leaking cover, a ratchet block, a bottom base, an adjustment rotating base and two springs. By means of spiral g... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7533838 | Spice mill A spice mill uses one touch button control and a common driven shaft to operate a pair of oppositely disposed grinding mills simultaneously. In environments which are more sophisticated and formal, the users will know which spice will be dispensed through the slight... | 05/19/2009 |
| 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 |
| 7380737 | Electric seasoning mill An electric seasoning mill includes a main body, a motor, a power supply, a control switch, and first and second milling assemblies; the main body has a holding room in each of two ends thereof; the motor is held in a connecting section between the holding rooms; th... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7377458 | Grinder A grinder includes a body, an upper sleeve-shaped member pivoting on the body and dividing an inside of the body into inner and outer rooms, a cover pivoting on the sleeve-shaped member, a connecting rod joined to a middle of the cover and extending through the inne... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7370819 | Device and method for grinding biological samples In a biological sample grinding device and method, a bearing having a plurality of rolling elements disposed between a pair of rings is disposed in a container in which a fluid having at least one biological sample particle therein is introduced. With the bearing im... | 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 |
| 7337998 | System for comminution of multiple samples of biological specimens An apparatus for comminuting biological specimens includes a receiving component provided with a drive source, at least one sample retainer configured for accommodating at least one biological specimen and constructed and arranged for engagement in the receiving com... | 03/04/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7318558 | Devices and systems for cutting food and products originally in block form A refillable cutting container device is described for whole block food products to be dispensed in the grated, shredded or flake form, of the type comprising: a container body suitable for receiving a food product in the form of one or more whole blocks; a cutting ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7284719 | Spice grinder A spice grinder (12) comprising a first, static component (10) which includes threading (14) by means of which it can be screwed onto the threaded neck of a container and a second, rotatable component (16) which fits on the component (... | 10/23/2007 |
