Container for blender

• US 20030230658A1
• Filed: 06/18/2002
• Published: 12/18/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kuo-I Ling, Rong-Yuan Tseng
• Original Assignee: Kuo-I Ling, Rong-Yuan Tseng
• Inventors: Tseng, Rong-Yuan, Ling, Kuo-I
• Granted Patent: US 6,786,440 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 241/282.1
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 43/0727 Mixing bowls

Abstract

A container for blender includes a cup and a stainless steel hollow cylindrical member. The cylindrical member has an L-shaped upper rim and an annular bottom having an L-shaped inner edge. The cylindrical member is integrally fitted in a lower part of the cup when the latter is injection-molded with the L-shaped upper rim and the L-shaped inner edge of the annular bottom imbedded in peripheral wall and bottom wall of the cup, respectively. The cylindrical member protects the cup against direct contacting with and colliding by rigid materials being crushed in the cup, and accordingly eliminates tiny chips of the cup that would otherwise be produced due to such colliding.

Claims

1. A container for blender, comprising a hollow cylindrical member made of a stainless steel material, and a big cup made of a transparent plastic material;

said cylindrical member having an L-shaped upper rim to include a radially outward extended horizontal portion and a vertical portion axially upward extended from an outer end of said horizontal portion, and a radially extended annular bottom defining a central opening that has an L-shaped inner edge to include a downward extended vertical portion and a horizontal portion radially inward extended from a lower end of the vertical portion; and

said cylindrical member being integrally associated with said cup when said cup is formed through injection molding, such that said cylindrical member is located in a lower part of said cup to fitly bear against an inner wall surface of said cup with said vertical portion and said horizontal portion at said upper rim and said annular bottom, respectively, of said cylindrical member imbedded in peripheral wall and bottom wall of said cup, respectively;

whereby said cylindrical member protects said cup against directly contacting with and colliding by rigid materials being crushed and blended in said cup, and accordingly eliminates tiny chips of said cup that would otherwise be produced due to such colliding.

2. The container for blender as claimed in claim 1, wherein said cylindrical member is provided on a peripheral wall with a plurality of circumferentially spaced and radially inward depressed grooves, such that a plurality of ribs having pointed ridges are formed on an inner side of said peripheral wall corresponding to said grooves;

and wherein said grooves on said cylindrical member fitly engage with axially extended ribs provided on an inner wall surface of said cup when said cylindrical member is fitly located in the lower part of said cup.