Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
241168000 | Hand support comminutor | 76 |
20080217449 | 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. When the trigger is pressed, the rasp activated thereby moves down and forces ground spice through an opening. The pressure of the rasp against the inside of the bottom of the grinder breaks up the spice, and only spice that is properly sized can fit through the opening. Furthermore, the opening may be adjustable so that a user can create a coarse or finely ground spice. | 09-11-2008 |
20090039188 | Condiment grinder and dispenser - Peppercorns and coarse salt are selectively stored, ground and dispensed. Two squeeze-levers are provided for actuating the grinder, with a lock for selectively disabling one of them so that only one condiment is dispensed at a time. Means is provided for increasing the quantity of condiment ground for each stroke of the grinder lever. | 02-12-2009 |
20090072059 | 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 cup holder to prevent the cup from rotating with the cup holder. A head protrudes from the inside surface of the lid and is shaped to nest within the cup either directly against the pills, or against a second cup placed in the first cup with the pills located between the two cups. | 03-19-2009 |
20090121062 | Spoon-shaped grating implement - Spoon-shaped kitchen implement including a shallow bowl ( | 05-14-2009 |
20090236453 | Drive Mechanism - A drive mechanism particularly suited for use in a manual grinder for the grinding of edible grindable product. The drive mechanism includes a toothed ring | 09-24-2009 |
20100163658 | 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 grinder is provided to communicate with the ingredient chamber for grinding the flavor enhancing ingredient. The grinder has at least one opening for dispensing the flavor enhancing ingredient on the opposite side of the grinder from the ingredient chamber. | 07-01-2010 |
20100219277 | SINGLE-HANDED VERTICAL SOLID MATERIAL GRINDER - This utility patent is a single-handed vertical solid material grinder. It includes a shell, a handle set with a motion handle and a mounted handle, and a grinding set. The grinding set has a sector unit that is a sector cylinder with parallel teeth and a grinding unit with fixed teeth. The mounted handle is placed inside the shell. Between the motion handle and the shell is an elastic repositioning unit. There is a driving set between the motion handle and the sector unit. When using one hand to pull and then release the handle set, through the handle set inside the shell and the grinding set of sector unit and grinding unit, the motion handle will drive the sector unit move back and forth around the spinning axis, thus pushing the parallel teeth on the sector surface to smash back and forth through the fixed teeth on the grinding unit's surface. Thus the solid raw material is caught between the surfaces of the parallel teeth and the fixed teeth and is grinded down. So by using one hand to operate the handle set the user can continuously grind the material particles. It can reduce a lot of effort. And by setting a collection box on the outlet of the shell, the grinded particles can be collected without wasted. | 09-02-2010 |
20120074252 | DOUGH BLENDER - A dough blender includes a handle and a plurality of tines. The tines may be in the form of thin plates having channels between them. A scraper is provided on the tines, attached to the blender to be moved across the tines to scrape food particles from the channels between the tines. | 03-29-2012 |
20120241543 | CONDIMENT GRINDER - A condiment grinder which has a body for containing different types of condiment seeds and at least three grinding mechanisms provided at an open end of the body through which condiments ground by the respective grinding mechanisms are to be dispensed. An actuator is provided with the grinder for upon actuation generating a drive that drives the grinding mechanisms via respective transmission paths. A clutch in each of the transmission paths is used to establish and disestablish transmission of the drive via that transmission path, and there is a manually operable selecting mechanism for selecting and operating one of the clutches in order to establish transmission of the drive via the relevant transmission path. | 09-27-2012 |
20120267462 | Grater For Single-Handed Operation - A grater for single-handed operation has a handle adapted to be grasped by the fingers, and a plunger adapted for engagement with the thumb. The plunger is slidingly received in an opening extending longitudinally through the handle, with a spring urging it to an extended position. A grating cutter and a cooperating holder for locating a food item adjacent the grating cutter are both disposed in a cavity within the handle. A detachable container for holding the food item encloses a resiliently-biased pusher for urging the food item toward the grating cutter, and reciprocating the plunger causes relative movement between the grating cutter and the holder. | 10-25-2012 |
20150053802 | SPICE GRINDER - A grinder has a jar having a surface provided with a screwthread. A grinding cap has a lower part engageable over the surface of the jar and provided with a screwthread such that the lower part can be screwed onto the jar and an upper part rotatable on the lower part. Grinding formations on the parts are effective on relative rotation of the parts. A ramp projects radially from the jar surface toward the cap surface, and a generally angularly extending and radially elastically deflectable arm has an inner end fixed on the cap surface and an outer end spaced in a relaxed condition of the arm radially outward from the cap surface toward the jar surface. The arm is oriented to engage and have its outer end deflected radially toward the cap surface by the ramp on screwing of the lower part onto the jar. | 02-26-2015 |
241169000 | Reciprocating cooperating comminuting surfaces | 4 |
20080210791 | Tablet grinding device - A device for grinding tablets includes a body, an electric motor housed within the body, a power source connected to the electric motor via a switch, a grinder driven to rotate by the electric motor, a tablet chute to the grinder, and a particle bin attached to or formed integrally with the body for receiving particles from the grinder. | 09-04-2008 |
20080217450 | Hand-held shredding device for paper or the like - A hand-held shredding device is provided including a housing sized and configured to be hand-held. The housing may include a first opening configured to receive an object to be shredded and a second opening configured to allow the object to exit the housing upon being shredded. A shredding assembly may be disposed within the housing. The shredding assembly may include a first plurality of blades disposed on a first rotatable shaft and a second plurality of blades disposed on a second rotatable shaft. The first and second rotatable shafts may be coupled to one another through a geared connection. The first and second pluralities of blades may be arranged to cooperate with one another to shred the object. A hand-operable crank may be connected to an end of one of the first or second rotatable shafts of the shredding assembly. The hand-operable crank may be configured to be operable by a user's hand to rotate one of the first or second rotatable shafts and thereby provide power to the shredding assembly to contemporaneously shred the object while moving the object towards the second opening. | 09-11-2008 |
20090200410 | MODULAR GRINDING CORE AND GRINDING DEVICES INCORPORATING THE SAME - A modular grinding core includes a housing configured to be operatively installed in a variety of external grinding devices, a rasp support member having a coupling adapter configured to be operatively coupled to an actuation mechanism of a first external grinding device at a first time and to an actuation mechanism of a second external grinding device at a second time after being removed from the first external grinding device. The rasp support member includes a receptacle configured to removably receive any one of a variety of rasps. The rasp support member is configured to reciprocate in response a force exerted by the external grinding device. The modular grinding core further includes a grind block member resisting displacement of the food items or spices away from the rasp support member, and an adjustment mechanism allowing a user to adjust a gap between the grind block and rasp support members. | 08-13-2009 |
20110108649 | GARLIC CHOPPER - A garlic chopper has a two-part housing, with an upper housing section and a lower housing section, with a receiving chamber in which the goods to be cut can be positioned. At least one knife element is arranged to move axially within the housing with at least one knife edge moved into the receiving chamber. The housing is closed at its lower housing section with a receiving chamber. The knife element is connected to an inertia mass element. | 05-12-2011 |
241169100 | Rotary tool | 49 |
20080210792 | SALT AND PEPPER MILLS ADAPTED TO RESEMBLE SLOT MACHINES - A mill adapted to resemble a slot machine has a mill body, a dispensing mechanism, and a façade that resembles a slot machine. The mill body has a compartment for storing the pepper, and an aperture for dispensing the pepper. The dispensing mechanism is operably mounted adjacent the aperture for grinding and dispensing the pepper through the aperture. The facade of the mill body is adapted to resemble a slot machine, and a slot arm is pivotally mounted adjacent the mill body and operably engaged for actuating the dispensing mechanism. | 09-04-2008 |
20080237380 | 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 slightly smaller end and which spice will be dispensed through the slightly larger end, and without having to label the dispenser. In addition, the one touch button is large and easily accessible by almost any finger of the hand used to hold the center section. | 10-02-2008 |
20080277513 | 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 process foodstuff. | 11-13-2008 |
20080302895 | 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 the roller assembly. The roller assembly includes at least one rolling member such that when a user rolls or reciprocates the rolling member on a surface, the hub and the blades rotate to process a food item selectively positioned in the chamber. | 12-11-2008 |
20080315021 | Adjustable Condiment Grinder - Inner and outer grinding elements have a space therebetween which defines the size of the ground product. A shaft is connected at its bottom end to the inner element for operating the grinder. A sleeve extends about the outer grinding element and is mounted for rotation about the central axis of the grinding elements. Mating screw threads are formed on the sleeve and outer grinding element such that rotation of the sleeve moves the outer grinding element axially for adjusting the size of the ground condiment. A knob accessible from the exterior of the lower housing is fixed to the sleeve and rotates in a circumferential slot in the lower housing. | 12-25-2008 |
20080315022 | 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 stator. The drum is positioned around the rotor. The rotary slide includes a pointer that can be adjusted such that a distance between the stator and the rotor increases or decreases. | 12-25-2008 |
20090045274 | FOOD CUTTING DEVICE - A food cutting device has a bowl, two cutting blades supported in the bowl for rotation relative to each other, and a drive mechanism supported by the bowl for rotating the cutting blades to cut food in the bowl. The cutting blades are rotatable in opposite directions relative to each other to perform a scissors-like cutting action. | 02-19-2009 |
20090050722 | 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 sleeve, a cap disposed on the grinding apparatus, and wherein the sliding cap is slidable between a first position to rotate the grinding apparatus for grinding condiments and a second position secured against the cap to provide a seal for the condiment mill. | 02-26-2009 |
20090057452 | 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 geartrain includes a plurality of spur gear epicyclic gearsets, each gearset comprising planet gears meshed with a sun gear, the planet gears of each gearset supported upon a planet carrier, the gearsets stacked within a common ring gear with the sun gears coaxial, adjacent sun gears and planet carriers of adjacent gearsets being rotationally fast for transmitting torque between the adjacent gearsets. The adjacent sun gears and planet carriers of adjacent gearsets are integrally formed a melt processable polymer. The gearsets are held between an end wall and a closure at axially opposing ends of the ring gear to form a gearbox, the end wall being formed integrally with the ring gear and the closure being fixed to the ring gear. | 03-05-2009 |
20090078807 | Adjustable grinder - A tapered inner grinding element is spaced apart from an outer grinding element with a space therebetween which defines the size of the ground product. A shaft is connected at its bottom end to the inner element for operating the grinder. Screw threads formed on the shaft and an adjuster knob are engaged such that rotation of the adjuster knob directly moves the inner grinding element axially for adjusting the size of the ground condiment. A sleeve fixed to the inner grinding element slides axially on the shaft but is fixed to rotate with the shaft. Mating snap-acting connectors on the sleeve and the adjuster knob are joined by elastic deformation. | 03-26-2009 |
20090084878 | 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 grinding teeth of the grinding block and the grinding base, edible particles can be ground into powder to drop out of powder outlets of the bottom base while clockwise rotating the rotating knob. After using the mill, the powder outlets can be covered by the anti-leaking cover to prevent the powder from dropping on a table via counterclockwise rotating the rotating knob. And, via rotating the adjustment rotating base, the rotator can be moved up and down to alter the distance between the grinding block and the grinding base for grinding with diverse sizes of powder. | 04-02-2009 |
20090095832 | 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 and the grinding mechanism are coupled by means of a transmission rod; the bottom portion of the grinder body has several outlet holes on a peripheral side for the holding room to communicate with an outside; a stopping board is secured over a lower end of the holding room of the grinder body so as to seal up the lower end of the holding room; the user is allowed to tilt the grinder to make ground seasoning fall out through the outlet holes; seasoning won't fall out of the holding room to dirty the table even if the grinder is subjected to external force accidentally. | 04-16-2009 |
20090121063 | 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 grinding unit. The stop unit is formed with a passage to permit peppercorns in the first space portion to fall into the grinding unit so as to be ground thereby through the second space portion when the pepper mill is disposed at a dispensing position, and is configured to stop a portion of residual ground pepper in the second space portion from reaching the first space portion via the passage when the pepper mill is disposed at a non-dispensing position. | 05-14-2009 |
20090134256 | CANISTER WITH ADJUSTABLE GRINDER - A canister configured to include a container and a spice grinder coupled to the container. The spice grinder includes a grinding ring and a feed cone unit that cooperates with the grinding ring to define a grinding chamber therebetween. | 05-28-2009 |
20090256016 | Multipurpose cassette for adjusting a grinder in a mechanical or electrical condiment mill or on a device for finely breaking foodstuff - The inventive device for adjusting a condiment grinder or a foodstuff breaking unit comprises a cassette consisting of an adjusting ring ( | 10-15-2009 |
20090277982 | GRATING PLATE FOR CONTAINER/GRATER FOR FRIABLE FOOD PRODUCTS - A grating plate ( | 11-12-2009 |
20090314867 | Combined Salt and Pepper Mill - A spice mill for cutting up two different spices, in particular salt and pepper, is disclosed. Two spice containers ( | 12-24-2009 |
20090321548 | 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 and second output shafts are rotatable in first and second directions. First and second milling assemblies are adjacent the first and second rooms; each milling assembly has stationary and rotatable portions. A first transmission shaft operatively couples the first output shaft and the first milling assembly rotatable portion; a second transmission shaft operatively couples the second output shaft and the second milling assembly rotatable portion. Means are included for automatically actuating the motor to rotate the first output shaft in the first and second directions upon tilting the main body in first and second manners. | 12-31-2009 |
20100044485 | SPICE GRINDERS - The spice grinder ( | 02-25-2010 |
20100108793 | 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 to the driving unit, and each have an elastic portion; the controlling unit includes a sealing sleeve positioned around the elastic portions, and a magnetic component capable of sliding close to the sealing sleeve; when the pepper can is in an in-use state, the magnetic component will make the elastic portions get into contact with each other owing to magnetic attraction, thus turning on the driving unit for the driving unit to drive the grinding unit to grind pepper; the elastic portions are airtightly wrapped in the sealing sleeve, and therefore can't oxidize or have dust accumulating thereon, preventing the risk of poor electrical contact existing between the elastic portions. | 05-06-2010 |
20100155517 | MULTIPLE CHAMBER CONDIMENT GRINDER - A condiment grinder comprises a housing with at least two separate chambers, each configured to hold one of the condiments. A separate grinder is mounted on a side of the housing adjacent each chamber for grinding and dispensing the condiment from the respective chamber. The grinders each have a rotational axis which intersects the axis of the other grinders at the approximate center of the housing. A separate hand crank, operative to rotate each grinder about its axis, is disposed on the opposite side of the housing from the respective grinder to which it is connected. | 06-24-2010 |
20100187343 | SPICE GRINDERS - An injection moulded preform is disclosed which is then blown to form a bottle ( | 07-29-2010 |
20100200685 | PEPPER MILL - A pepper mill includes a receiving unit, a grinding unit, a coupling unit and a closure unit . The receiving unit includes a container body defining a receiving space for receiving peppercorns, and a driving member disposed movably in the receiving space. The coupling unit is disposed in the receiving space and is driven rotatably by the driving member. The grinding unit is disposed in the receiving space and is coupled co-rotatably to the coupling unit for grinding the peppercorns to result in ground pepper. The closure unit includes a closure member movable relative to the grinding unit between a closed position so as to block discharge of the ground pepper through a discharge end of the container body, and an opened position so as to permit discharge of the ground pepper through the discharge end. | 08-12-2010 |
20100206971 | Condiment Grinders - A condiment grinder comprises a hollow body constituting a reservoir for a condiment to be ground, the body having an opening at its lower end, in which a female grinding member defining an aperture is received and an opening at its upper end. One end of an actuating rod is connected to a male grinding member rotatably received in the aperture and the other end of the actuating rod passes through the upper opening in the body. A rotatable actuating knob removably closes the upper opening in the body and is non-rotatably secured to the other end of the actuating rod. The grinder further includes a condiment filling aid comprising a tubular sleeve having a first end whose cross-sectional area is less than that of its second end. The first end is connected to the upper end of the body around the upper opening. The tubular sleeve is movable between a retracted position, in which the second end is situated at a level not substantially above the level of the upper opening, and an extended position, in which the second end is situated substantially above the level of the upper opening. When the actuating knob is removed, condiment may be introduced through the upper opening of the tubular sleeve into the hollow body. | 08-19-2010 |
20100237176 | Condiment grinders - Condiment grinder and dispenser in which the usual shield for protecting the adjustment screw on the end of the drive shaft is replaced and the screw is secured against accidental removal and loss by providing a stop structure which is attached to or integral part of the end of the drive shaft. This structure, unlike a shield, does not interfere with the adjustment of the coarseness of the grind produced by the grinding dispenser, and yet maintains the integrity of the device without undue complexity or manufacturing expense. | 09-23-2010 |
20100270407 | DESKTOP ELECTRIC STIRRER - A tabletop electric stirrer comprising a rotating body and an electric rotating means, wherein the rotating body comprises a stirring shaft, a rotating disk, and a stirring means provided with stirring blades, the stirring means being provided at one end of the stirring shaft, the rotating disk being provided directly above the stirring blades provided to the stirring means, and the other end of the stirring shaft being configured so as to be connected to the electric rotating means, wherein the stirring means has a spherical or conical tip, the tip being located on a center line of the stirring shaft, and a maximum diameter of a cross-section of the stirring means perpendicular to the stirring shaft is greater than a diameter of the stirring shaft and smaller than a diameter of the rotating disk, wherein the stirring blades are provided in such a manner that at least two stirring blades are located along an outer circumference with the maximum diameter of the stirring means so as to face the stirring shaft, and a face of the stirring blades facing the stirring shaft is a flat surface, and wherein the stirring blades are provided in such a manner that an angle formed by the flat surface and the cross-section with the maximum diameter of the stirring means on the stirring shaft side is 95° to 135° and central portions of the flat surfaces of the respective stirring blades in a width direction are located on a circumference of a single circle around the stirring shaft serving as a center. Preferably, the tabletop electric stirrer of the present invention comprises a casing. The tabletop electric stirrer of the present invention can perform stirring efficiently, can easily crush and dissolve a water-soluble capsule not only in hot water but also in cold water, and furthermore, can crush and dissolve even a plurality of capsules in a short period of time. | 10-28-2010 |
20100276527 | SPICE MILLS AND SHAKERS - A grinder includes an improved mechanism for adjusting the coarseness of the grind by providing a grind selector knob centrally located at the top of a cap. In some versions of the invention, the mill includes a base with a cavity for collecting the salt, spice, or pepper that is ground so that it can be measured within the base before dispensing. Ideally, the collector base includes an inclined floor and measurement indicators to enable the grinding and measuring of a desired volume of spice. | 11-04-2010 |
20100314477 | Multi-Purpose Solid Material Grinder - This utility patent is a multi-purpose solid material grinder. It includes a shell. The interior space of shell is divided into two or more than two chambers. Each chamber has its own container chamber and grinding set. On the shell of each chamber there is inlet hole and outlet hole for each container chamber. In the shell there is also a motion changing set that will drives every grinding unit's grinding driving axis to operate, and a driving set that will drives the motion changing set to pass the motion to the motion units. By separating the interior of the shell into several grinding chambers, and put containing chamber and grinding mechanism inside each grinding chamber separately, the grinder contains several independent grinding system, which can grind different solid materials. And by engaging the motion changing set, different grinding systems share a driving unit that have one power input. Thus it is very convenient. | 12-16-2010 |
20110073693 | Crushing Bucket - The invention relates to a crushing bucket, which has been designed as an excavator or loader bucket. It comprises a bottom plate ( | 03-31-2011 |
20110089277 | Compact Manual Shredder - A compact manual shredder includes : a housing, being a column type tube body, constituted by upper and lower shells covered with each other, the upper shell being disposed with a paper entrance, the lower shell being disposed with a paper outlet and a pair of interlaced and side-by-side fragmentation cutters being configured inside the housing; and a transmission device, having a rotating unit disposed on one end of said housing and a gear train, two ends thereof being respectively coupled to the cutter pair and the rotating unit. Whereby, the rotating unit of the transmission device drives the gear train to rotate, and further drives the cutters to cut paper into fragments. | 04-21-2011 |
20110180643 | PORTABLE FOOD BLENDER - This utility patent is a portable food blender. It includes a food container, a blade set with cutting blades that is set in the said container and can spin, and a container cover set that is on top of the said container and cannot rotate relative to the container. The said container cover set has an upper surface and a lower surface. It also includes a pivot and driving unit. The said pivot intrudes out from the said container cover set's upper side. When the pivot rotates against the said container cover set, it drives the driving unit to make the said blade set spin. The said pivot is inside in the side of the said container cover set and is mounted to the upper surface. The said driving unit is mounted on the said container cover set's lower surface. The portable food container of this utility patent has the following benefits: The structure of the item is relatively simple. It is easy to manufacture. It is easy to use. And it can achieve better result when processing food. | 07-28-2011 |
20110226879 | 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 stator. The drum is positioned around the rotor. The rotary slide includes a pointer that can be adjusted such that a distance between the stator and the rotor increases or decreases. | 09-22-2011 |
20120006922 | ADJUSTABLE GRINDER AND A STATOR FOR THE 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 stator. The stator and the rotor each contain at least two rows of teeth to grind the product therebetween. The drum is positioned around the rotor. The rotary slide includes a pointer that can be adjusted such that a distance between the stator and the rotor increases or decreases. Additionally, the stator may include at least two extended teeth. | 01-12-2012 |
20120091240 | SPICE GRINDERS - A spice grinder | 04-19-2012 |
20120097775 | WAND ATTACHMENTS FOR HAND-HELD ELECTRIC BLENDERS - A wand-like tool ( | 04-26-2012 |
20120153060 | CONDIMENT GRINDER - A condiment grinder has a body for containing condiment seeds, a grinding mechanisms located at an open end of the body through which condiment seeds ground by the grinding mechanism may be dispensed, and a drive mechanism for turning an operating shaft of the grinding mechanism to operate the grinder. The grinding mechanism includes a female grinder and a male grinder, which is supported co-axially in the female grinder for rotation relative to the female grinder, for grinding condiment seeds. The two grinders are spaced apart by an annular gap in which condiment seeds are ground. The drive mechanism has an operator supported for reciprocating motion relative to the body, and a motion translator for translating the reciprocating motion into uni-directional rotary motion driving the operating shaft. | 06-21-2012 |
20120199679 | 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 stator. The drum is positioned around the rotor. The rotary slide includes a pointer that can be adjusted such that a distance between the stator and the rotor increases or decreases. | 08-09-2012 |
20120286081 | Spice Grinder - A spice grinder comprising a bottle ( | 11-15-2012 |
20130015279 | CONDIMENT GRINDERAANM So; Kwok FaiAACI Kowloon TongAACO CNAAGP So; Kwok Fai Kowloon Tong CN - A pepper grinder has a body, a grinding mechanism, and a drive mechanism for operating the grinding mechanism by causing relative movement between two grinding members. The drive mechanism has a lever for reciprocating pivotal movement in opposite directions to produce a driving force, a first ratchet arranged to transmit the driving force from the lever, upon pivoting of the lever in the first direction, causing relative movement between the grinding members in a third direction to grind pepper, and a second ratchet arranged to transmit the driving force from the lever, upon pivoting of the lever in the second direction, causing relative movement between the grinding members in the third direction to grind pepper. Upon reciprocating pivoting of the lever in the opposite directions, the first and second ratchets alternate in transmitting the driving force from the lever to the grinding mechanism. | 01-17-2013 |
20130026269 | GRINDER AND AUTOMATIC OPEN/CLOSE CONTROL DEVICE THEREOF - The present invention relates to a grinder, comprising a grinding unit is installed between a receptacle and a base. A grinding wheel and a grinding base of the grinding unit are detachably and respectively installed on a transmission shaft and at the bottom side of the receptacle, and a bottom cover of an automatic open/close control device utilizes an engaging button for being combined with a combination part of a fasten cover installed at the bottom side of a follower member, so the bottom cover can be detachably installed at the bottom opening of a housing. Accordingly, components which may have food powders adhered thereon, such as the grinding wheel and the grinding base of the grinding unit and the follower member, the housing and the bottom cover of the automatic open/close control device are capable of being detached for cleaning, so the food hygiene can be ensured. | 01-31-2013 |
20130221144 | Grinder Facilitating Adjustment of Grinding Fineness - The invention relates to a grinder with granularity adjusting mechanism, which comprises a container ( | 08-29-2013 |
20130277473 | SPICE GRINDERS - The invention relates to a spice grinder which comprises a fixed component | 10-24-2013 |
20140175202 | ELECTRIC SEASONING MILL - An electric seasoning mill includes a grinding mechanism that is driven by a driving mechanism to grind seasonings, and a control unit that includes a control seat, a control element disposed in and movable relative to the control seat, and a resilient element disposed for biasing the control seat away from the driving mechanism. When the control seat is pressed toward the driving mechanism, the electric seasoning mill is operable from a power-off state, where the control element is away from the driving mechanism, to a power-on state, where the electric seasoning mill is convertible between activating and deactivating positions for controlling contact between the control element and the driving mechanism. | 06-26-2014 |
20140312152 | GRINDER - The present invention relates to an improvement for a grinder, which includes a grinder having a top cover; and a rotatable handgrip pivoted with the top cover, the outer side of the rotatable handgrip and the bottom of a holding button are respectively and oppositely formed with an arc-shaped convex part and an arc-shaped concave part, the arc-shaped concave part or the arc-shaped convex part of the holding button is able to be moved along the arc-shaped convex part or the arc-shaped concave part of the rotatable handgrip, the up/down swinging angle generated during the inner side of the rotatable handgrip being rotated is able to be absorbed, thereby enabling the holding button to be constantly vertical to the rotatable handgrip. | 10-23-2014 |
20140319255 | SPICE GRINDER - A spice grinder comprising a bottle ( | 10-30-2014 |
20150034748 | Zippy Shaker - There is provided a blending container for mixing a nutritional liquid including a cup for holding the liquid and having a base wall; a cover for a top of the cup; a strut constructed and arranged for positioning adjacent to the base wall; at least one blade supported from the strut; and a pulley mechanism disposed over the base wall of the cup and coupled to and for controlling a spinning of the strut. | 02-05-2015 |
20150144722 | DISK GRATER - The invention relates to a device for processing foodstuffs, comprising an upper part, a drive and a lower part and a working unit that can be driven and set rotating by means of the drive, the drive being a manually cord-operated drive and the device having a holding-operating element on the upper part. The upper part of the device has an opening and is designed to feed the foodstuff to be processed to the working unit and to hold the device in position. | 05-28-2015 |
20160129452 | DEVICE FOR THE COMMINUTION OF FOODSTUFFS - The invention relates to a device for the comminution of foodstuffs, which device has a drive device for driving at least one rotary cutter in rotation and has a container. The device is characterized in that the drive device is designed to drive two rotary cutters, and in that the container has two interconnected cylindrical chambers and/or two cylindrical chambers which merge into one another, into which cylindrical chambers in each case one of the two rotary cutters can be inserted. | 05-12-2016 |
20160135647 | DEVICE FOR THE COMMINUTION OF FOODSTUFFS - The invention relates to a device ( | 05-19-2016 |
241169200 | Masher or pestle | 12 |
20080237381 | Pill crusher and pill pouch - A pill crusher has a ram and an anvil member having opposed pill crushing faces, and an electric ram drive operable to displace the ram towards the anvil member. The anvil member is rotatable and displaceable in response to pressure from the ram, to ensure the crushing of a pill located between the crushing faces of the ram and the anvil member. The anvil member, the ram and the ram drive are provided in a housing having a pill pouch reception opening which is upwardly open and extends above the crushing face of the anvil member. | 10-02-2008 |
20090014564 | 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 to the first axis of the handle at a first angle facing a central portion of the handle. The work portion has a third axis arranged to be oblique with respect to the second axis of the offset portion at a second angle facing away from the central portion, such that an extent of the work portion along the third axis is substantially perpendicular to the first axis of the handle at the central portion of the handle. A distal end of the work portion has a convex tip to facilitate application of axial and radial forces to the pill(s). | 01-15-2009 |
20090045275 | Waste Chopper Kit - The present invention provides a waste chopper kit that can be used to prevent toilet clogging. | 02-19-2009 |
20090212143 | Palm-operated mortar-and-pestle - The traditional mortar-and-pestle consists of a bowl-shaped container and a rod-shaped pestle. During use, a user holds the pestle in his/her hand and uses it to pound and grind the raw ingredients such as fresh herbs and whole spices to reduce them into fine particles. This invention proposes a new design with a stubby mushroom-shaped pestle having a dome-shaped bottom profile which correlates closely (i.e. closely fitting in form or outline with each other) with the profile of a dome-shaped inside bottom of the mortar. This novel design allows a user to simply press down on the “mushroom head” of the pestle and twirl the pestle inside the mortar for it to sufficiently break down the raw ingredients into fine particles without hard pounding, or the associated noise and splashing. | 08-27-2009 |
20090236454 | KITCHEN UTENSIL - A kitchen utensil having a first operable position and a second storage position is provided. The utensil has a head that is rotatably connected to opposing support arms and is lockable in either an operable or storage position. | 09-24-2009 |
20090308962 | Kitchen Tool - The kitchen tool is composed of: a handle, a support yoke, and a crushing plate. The handle is connected to the support yoke. The support yoke is shaped to form a parabolic arch with arms that are biased to spring inward or outward in an alternative embodiment. The end of each arm has a mounting hole along with three locking holes. These pivot axles are connected to the mounting holes on the support yoke arms. The holes and posts are arranged such that they for two positions for the device. In a first position the crushing plate is place is a position perpendicular to the support yoke arms. In a second position the crushing plate is place is a position parallel to the support yoke which makes the device's profile much thinner and easier to fit into a standard kitchen drawer. | 12-17-2009 |
20100163659 | COLLAPSIBLE KITCHEN TOOL - A tool handle is secured to a tool head in a manner that allows the tool head such as a potato masher to be collapsed or folded with respect to the handle for more compact storage. In one form, the tool head is connected to the handle via a ball joint allowing for rotational and pivotal movement. | 07-01-2010 |
20110101140 | 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 to the first axis of the handle at a first angle facing a central portion of the handle. The work portion has a third axis arranged to be oblique with respect to the second axis of the offset portion at a second angle facing away from the central portion, such that an extent of the work portion along the third axis is substantially perpendicular to the first axis of the handle at the central portion of the handle. A distal end of the work portion has a tip to facilitate application of a working force to crush the pill(s). | 05-05-2011 |
20110174908 | SQUEEGEE WHISK - A squeegee whisk includes a handle and an attached tool head in which the tool head is configured to be sufficiently rigid to mash food items such as cooked potatoes. The tool head is formed by a plurality of arms terminating in a mashing grid. The number of arms is designed to be sufficiently large to allow the tool head to serve as a whisk in addition to supporting the mashing grid. In some versions, the arms of the tool head include fins formed from a resilient material such that the fins are capable of scraping the sidewalls of a bowl and thereby serve as a squeegee or scraper. | 07-21-2011 |
20130240653 | TABLET CRUSHER WITH ROCKER ACTION - A device for crushing one or more tablets and methods of using the same are disclosed. The device contains a solid body portion having a blade-like configuration. Round grips extend from the opposing ends of the body portion. The body portion has a crushing surface that is convex. The convex surface allows the device to be operated in a rocking motion. | 09-19-2013 |
20140306048 | Pill Crusher - A pill crusher is provided, which comprises a base, a stopper, an U-shaped movable pressing plate, a connecting rod and a handle, wherein the stopper is mounted on the base; the U-shaped movable pressing plate is sleeved on the outside of the stopper and comprises a pressing plate on one side of the stopper and two side walls connected with the pressing plate and pivotedly connected to the stopper, so that the U-shaped movable pressing plate can rotate relative to the stopper and a V-shaped crushing chamber formed between the pressing plate and the stopper is capable of being closed by pressing and being open; the connecting rod is positioned on the other side of the stopper and has a first end pivotedly connected with the stopper and a second end; the handle has a first end pivotedly connected with the second end of the connecting rod through a third shaft pin and a pivoting portion pivotedly connected with the two side walls; as the handle is pressed down, the angle between the connecting rod and the handle increases and the space of the V-shaped crushing chamber decreases gradually; and as the handle is raised up, the angle between the connecting rod and the handle reduces and the space of the V-shaped crushing chamber increases gradually. The pill crusher provided by the present invention has the advantages of labor saving, high efficiency, quietness, convenient maintenance and cleaning and the like. | 10-16-2014 |
20150028141 | Auto-Rotating Muddler - A muddler includes a handle and a shaft extending axially from the handle. The handle has a bore with helical grooves in the interior surface thereof. The shaft has a proximal end received in the bore, and a pin extends through the shaft to engage the helical grooves. A compression spring in the bore urges the shaft distally. A pestle head is secured to the distal end of the shaft, with a convex distal end surface having a plurality of projections extending distally to contact the solid materials to be crushed and bruised or broken. A force transmitted distally from the handle causes the spring to compress, driving the proximal end of the shaft into the bore and causing the shaft to rotate, further bruising and crushing the solid ingredients and creating a mixing action among the solid ingredients. | 01-29-2015 |