Inventors
Assignee
Application No. 29215760 filed on 10/25/2004
US Classes: D07/412 Processing, preparing or handling
Examiners Primary:
Brooks, Cathron C. Assistant:
Pham, Ricky
Attorney, Agent or Firm
Foreign Patent References WO 2004103538 WO 12/01/2004
Claims Description Other References Two sheets of prior art drawings filed with U.S. Appl. No. 29/205,785 on May 19, 2005. Two sheets of prior art drawings filed with U.S. Appl. No. 10/763,964 on Jan. 23, 2004. Two sheets of prior art drawings filed with U.S. Appl. No. 10/847,157 on May 17, 2004. Brochure excerpt “Get Trim & Fit Fast”, Vita-Mix Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio, 7 pages, (Jan. 1999). Brochure “What more can the world's best blender offer? More quiet.”, Vita-Mix Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio, 4 pages, (Apr. 1998). Brochure excerpt “Vita-Mix® Two-Speed Drink Machine™ The World's Best Blender Does it All!”, Vita-Mix Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio, 1 page (undated). Brochure “vita-prep™ The Professional Chef's Power Tool”, Vita-Mix Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio, 4 pages (May 1998). Brochure excerpt “Hamilton Beach”, Hamilton Beach Commercial, Washington, North Carolina, 4 pages, (Aug. 1998). Brochure “The World's Best Blender is . . . ”, K-Tec, Lindon, Utah, 4 pages, (undated).
Field of Search Console or floor type Automatic drip or pressure brewing type, or having decanter warming surface With support or overflow tray for receiving vessel Mixing Homogenizer or emulsifier Blender Provision for depending beater Hand powered Cutting, slicing or piercing Tenderizer Rotating blade Processor Reciprocating blade or saw type Power base unit Processing, preparing or handling Blender container Liquid Drinking vessel Three or more repeats, or uniform configuration, about axis Helical or sinuous detail Incised V-shaped grooves defining pattern With stirring With cutting By comminuting And a centrifugal extractor Miscellaneous With automatic control Of comminutor drive With means to protect operator from injury Hand support comminutor Combined or convertible Convertible to non-comminuting apparatus Batch type (e.g., mortar and pestle) Combined with non-comminuting means with means to support material for rotation during comminution Detachably secured to a rotary element Comminuting mounting means, frames or other normally stationary structure Removable or displaceable housing section With rotary tool Elongated edged member Comminuting elements Edged blades extending radially Miscellaneous Single stirrer Stirrer with specified drive means OPERATOR SUPPORTED Mixing chamber type Electrical heating Valve or gate BY MOVEMENT OF MIXING CHAMBER RELATIVE TO STATIONARY SUPPORT MIXING CHAMBER REMOVABLE FROM STIRRER AND SUPPORT Plural supports Removable power drive means Support rotatable only Adjustable stirrer Support oscillatory only Support rectilinearly reciprocable only Mixing chamber mounted within container Stirrer mounted through mixing chamber bottom wall With motor control Adjustable BY MOVEMENT OF SUPPORT FOR REMOVABLE MIXING CHAMBER Mixing chamber secured to support Support oscillatory only Motor driven Support rectilinearly reciprocable only Support rotatable only And means to clamp plural mixing chambers STIRRER WITHIN STATIONARY MIXING CHAMBER Mounted in removable mixing chamber closure Oscillatory stirrer Rotatable stirrer Axis fixed Coincident axes Single stirrer Bent bar Motor driven Fluid motor Electric motor Gear driven Having cooperating stationary element Adjustable stirrer or stirrer element Rotatable stirrer With motor drive Mounted in mixing chamber bottom wall Screw-type stirrer Spiral arrangement Flat element having major surface lying in plane substantially including shaft axis (e.g., paddle type) Apertured element Openwork having substantially no central shaft Rodlike element having enlarged outer end Apertured element Diverse size or shape Axially directing blade (e.g., propeller, helix section, etc.) Blade detachably secured to hub Bowed or angled out of plane of rotation Outwardly increasing width Outwardly decreasing width STATIONARY MIXING CHAMBER AGITATOR Stirrer MISCELLANEOUS TOOLS AND IMPLEMENTS FOR AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND HORTICULTURE Entire article formed substantially from a single piece of sheet material (1) Cutting blade, e.g., saw, etc. Notched or serrated With pouring or dispensing feature
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