Method for blending food or beverages

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9420917
APP PUB NO 20130341439A1
SERIAL NO

13533938

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A method for blending food or beverages, preferably using a blender that is compact enough for home use, rugged enough to blend frozen beverages, simple to use and safe. The blender includes an upper housing, with a front housing door, that covers the moving blending machinery. The blender also includes a cupholder receiving area which allows the user to safely insert a frozen beverage cup inside a cupholder for blending. After the start button is pressed, a cupholder lip will be grasped by the clamping jaw of an elevator assembly to lift the cupholder up. As the cupholder is lifted upward, a cover will be pressed over the top opening of the inserted cup to prevent spillage during blending. The elevator assembly will then continue to lift the cupholder upward until the rotating cutter blades of a spindle assembly cut through successive layers of the frozen beverage.

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F'REAL FOODS LLC6121 HOLLIS STREET SUITE 500 EMERYVILLE CA 94608

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bradley, Chris M Orinda, US 3 43
Cauchois, Gage C Oakland, US 6 63
Connell, Steve T San Francisco, US 4 49
Crarer, Alan S Pacifica, US 4 19
Farrell, James J Belvedere, US 22 558
Gardner, Clayton G Alamo, US 8 67
Lau, Shek Fai Foster City, US 99 4700
Lehman, Joseph M New Albany, US 25 361
Tilley, Jeffrey A La Honda, US 9 147
Voges, Jens P Oakland, US 8 107

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