US20110210132A1 - Beverage Container - Google Patents

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US20110210132A1
US20110210132A1 US13/127,084 US200913127084A US2011210132A1 US 20110210132 A1 US20110210132 A1 US 20110210132A1 US 200913127084 A US200913127084 A US 200913127084A US 2011210132 A1 US2011210132 A1 US 2011210132A1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47J—KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES
    • A47J43/00—Implements for preparing or holding food, not provided for in other groups of this subclass
    • A47J43/27—Implements for preparing or holding food, not provided for in other groups of this subclass for mixing drinks; Hand-held shakers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F31/00—Mixers with shaking, oscillating, or vibrating mechanisms
    • B01F31/56—Mixers with shaking, oscillating, or vibrating mechanisms having a vibrating receptacle provided with stirring elements, e.g. independent stirring elements
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F33/00—Other mixers; Mixing plants; Combinations of mixers
    • B01F33/50—Movable or transportable mixing devices or plants
    • B01F33/501—Movable mixing devices, i.e. readily shifted or displaced from one place to another, e.g. portable during use
    • B01F33/5011—Movable mixing devices, i.e. readily shifted or displaced from one place to another, e.g. portable during use portable during use, e.g. hand-held
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F35/00—Accessories for mixers; Auxiliary operations or auxiliary devices; Parts or details of general application
    • B01F35/30—Driving arrangements; Transmissions; Couplings; Brakes
    • B01F35/32—Driving arrangements
    • B01F35/32005—Type of drive
    • B01F35/3202—Hand driven
    • B01F35/32021—Shaking by hand a portable receptacle or stirrer for mixing
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F35/00—Accessories for mixers; Auxiliary operations or auxiliary devices; Parts or details of general application
    • B01F35/30—Driving arrangements; Transmissions; Couplings; Brakes
    • B01F35/32—Driving arrangements
    • B01F35/32005—Type of drive
    • B01F35/3202—Hand driven

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  • the invention relates to a drinking or beverage container according to the preamble of the patent claim 1 .
  • these mixing cups/shakers are offered with various different auxiliary elements and/or with a special shape or form design.
  • a current popular model would be the shaker with insertable beating screen. This screen is fixed on or inserted in the container opening preferably before the intermixing and after filling the mixing container with the substances that are to be intermixed.
  • a further device for improving the intermixing process are specially shaped, curved or oscillating inner walls in the mixing container. These special walls are preferably provided on the inner area of the lid element or on the floor of the cup element.
  • a further device is known from a U.S. Pat. No. 6,379,032.
  • a freely movable, non-fixed, grid-shaped produced metal ball optimizes the intermixing of the filled-in substances, in that it moves in the inner area through the interior space of the mixing container during the shaking motion. Due to its smaller shape and its own self-weight, it moves further in the interior space of the mixing container in the direction of the shaking motion being carried out, even if the substances (liquid/powder) to be intermixed are stopped by the wall boundary, and it improves the intermixing of the substances due to its grid-like fine-meshed body.
  • the variant actually produced as a product is known as BlenderBottle (www.blenderbottle.com).
  • the screen to be inserted is quickly gummed-up with hard-to-mix substances, due to a lack of a self-motion.
  • the screen guarantees an optimal mixing behavior due to its very tightly spaced meshes.
  • BlenderBall from the known US patent provides a good result even with hard-to-intermix substances, and a gumming-up is prevented by its self-motion in the mixing container.
  • the BlenderBall is not so fine-meshed as a grid screen, and due to its small size it is not as surfacially covering as a screen.
  • the invention has the advantage that the intermixing is optimized due to the movability of the spiral-shaped insertable auxiliary element, in that it avoids a gumming-up due to the motion in the interior space during the shaking process, but acts like a screen upon the return motion.
  • the spiral shape becomes smaller in diameter in the condition pulled out toward the cup bottom, and thus fits optimally to the shape of the most common present shaker models, and thus guarantees an optimal surface coverage.
  • spiral is easy to clean and to insert.
  • two auxiliary elements would have to be inserted and cleaned.
  • FIG. 1 shows a spiral-shaped device for the improvement of the mixing result with device for fixing
  • FIG. 1 a shows a spiral-shaped device for the improvement of the mixing result with device for insertion
  • FIG. 1 b shows material agglomerations preferably centrally arranged (A cone/B half-sphere/C screen or grid/D spider shape);
  • FIG. 2 shows a cup element/container
  • FIG. 3 shows a spiral motion during the shaking process in the direction toward the cup bottom
  • FIG. 4 shows the spiral motion/condition during the shaking process in the direction toward the lid element.
  • a spiral-shaped device which can be fixed with its fixing device ( 1 ) preferably on the lid element or on the container opening. That can preferably be achieved by insertion or plugging-in. Due to the spiral shape ( 3 ), a screen-like or sieve-like structure arises, which comprises mesh-like through openings ( 4 ). A material thickening ( 2 ) is located preferably arranged in the center, in order to strengthen the self-motion of the spiral in the direction toward the cup bottom during the shaking process.
  • FIG. 1 a illustrates the same spiral-shape device, with the difference, that the fixing device is now preferably designed as a collar or crown ( 5 ) for laying in contact on a device in the cup element.
  • the material thickening in the center of the spiral is omitted, but the same effect of the strengthened self-motion is achieved with a material thickening in the entire extent of the spiral arm or by a special selection of a heavier material.
  • FIG. 1 b various different models of the material thickening.
  • FIG. A shows pyramid-like device, which points downwardly and thus to separate or disperse the water masses in the shake itself.
  • FIG. B a half sphere is shown, which also points downwardly and shall achieve the same effect like FIG. A.
  • FIG. C shows a material thickening in the form of a screen or sieve, in order to achieve a further improvement in the mixing behavior.
  • FIG. D a spider-shaped spiral is shown. This is to improve the optical effect, and act or seem like a spider in the web.
  • the cup element is shown, which preferably maintains the shape that is typical in the market. Due to the spacing distances of the cup side walls ( 8 / 9 ) becoming smaller toward the bottom or floor, the shape of the cup is fitted or adapted to the tapering progression of the swung spiral.
  • the lid element is fixed on the container opening at the top ( 7 ) by a threading or a plug-in device.
  • FIG. 3 the course of the spiral ( 10 ) during the shaking process in the direction toward the cup bottom or floor is illustrated. Due to the spiral shape and the therefore ever-tapering or tightening course in the extended or pulled-out condition, the spiral is thus fitted or adapted to the downwardly tapering course of the container.
  • FIG. 4 the course of the spiral ( 11 ) during the shaking process in the direction toward the lid element is illustrated.
  • the spiral now has a screen or sieve shape, because it is not extended or pulled out. This can be achieved in that the lid element is arranged so that only a small motion play or clearance space is permitted.
  • the character of the spiral is to be designed so that it has a larger motion play or clearance space toward the cup bottom and a smaller motion play or clearance space toward the lid element.

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