Multi-purpose blender which can produce vacuum packages

• US 20040173105A1
• Filed: 04/23/2004
• Published: 09/09/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Joung-Geun Ahn, Kyung-Soon Kim
• Original Assignee: Joung-Geun Ahn, Kyung-Soon Kim
• Inventors: Ahn, Joung-Geun, Kim, Kyung-Soon
• Application Number:
  US10/482,409
• Publication Number:
  US 20040173105A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 99/472
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 43/06 with a plurality of interchangeable working units , e.g. with a single driving-unit
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 31/047 the nozzles co-operating with a check valve in the opening of the container or wrapper

Abstract

The present invention relates to a multi-purposes blender, comprising a main body having a driving motor and a lower coupling rotated by the driving motor; a vacuum generator which is attachable/detachable from the main body, having an upper coupling associated with the lower coupling to rotate, and a vacuum pump driven by the upper coupling; and a vacuum suction device, associated with the vacuum generator, for vacuumizing a vacuum container. According to the present invention, as a vacuum apparatus may be operated by a conventional blender, it has an effect enabling efficient and economic vacuum packaging even at a common home. Also, as rotating speed of the driving motor is set to a slow rotating mode through the vacuum generator of the present invention, and is again decelerated by a gear, there is an effect with vibration and noise of an apparatus decreased.

Claims

1. A multi-purpose blender for vacuum packages, comprising:

a main body having a driving motor and a lower coupling rotated by the driving motor;

a vacuum generator which is attachable/detachable from the main body, having an upper coupling associated with the lower coupling to rotate, and a vacuum pump driven by the upper coupling; and

a vacuum suction device, associated with the vacuum generator, for vacuumizing a vacuum container.

2. The multi-purpose blender for vacuum packages according to claim 1, wherein the rotating speed of the driving motor can be decelerated by assembling the upper coupling and a vacuum pump by gears.

3. The multi-purpose blender for vacuum packages according to claim 1, further comprising:

a guide equipped on the outer surface of the vacuum generator with a constant height; and

a tension plate, equipped on the guide by a spring, for closing a switch equipped on an upper part of the main body.

4. The multi-purpose blender for vacuum packages according to a claim 1, 2 or 3, further comprising:

a vacuum display device which includes a piston moved by the difference between an atmospheric pressure and a vacuum pressure, a transparent window through which the piston motion is displayed to an outside; and

a spring for returning the piston to an original position,

wherein the vacuum display device is equipped on an outer surface of the vacuum generator.

5. The multi-purpose blender for vacuum packages according to claim 1, further comprising a vacuum switch unit having a vacuum limit switch located in a quadrilateral joint groove formed in an upper part of the main body,

wherein the driving motor is rotated in a slow mode by closing the vacuum limit switch by the quadrilateral joint projection formed in the lower part of the vacuum generator.

6. The multi-purpose blender for vacuum packages according to claim 5, further comprising a blender switch unit having a blender limit switch located in a semi circular joint groove formed in an upper part of the main body,

wherein the driving motor is rotated in the fast mode by closing the blender limit switch by the semi circular joint projection formed in the lower part of a blender cup.

7. The multi-purpose blender for vacuum packages according to claim 5 or 6, wherein the rotating speed of the driving motor can be decelerated by assembling the upper coupling and a vacuum pump by a Bevel gear.

8. The multi-purpose blender for vacuum packages according to a claim 1, 2, 5 or 6, further comprising:

a vacuum display device which includes a piston moved by the difference between an atmospheric pressure and a vacuum pressure, a transparent window through which the piston motion is displayed to an outside; and

a spring for returning the piston to an original position,

wherein the vacuum display device is equipped on an outer surface of the vacuum suction device.

9. The multi-purpose blender for vacuum packages according to a claim 1, 2, 5 or 6, further comprises a pressure switch unit installed in the main body and closed in a normal state, and a rod installed both in the vacuum generator and arranged above the pressure switch unit,

wherein in case of a vacuum state, the rod is descended by a difference between a vacuum pressure and an atmospheric pressure, thereby opening the pressure switch unit and cutting off the power source of the driving motor.

10. The multi-purpose blender for vacuum packages according to a claim 1, 2, 5 or 6, wherein the vacuum generator comprises:

an upper coupling coupled with a lower coupling of the main body to rotate;

a small diameter gear of the Bevel gear connected to the upper coupling;

a big diameter gear of the Bevel gear assembled with a piston rod of the vacuum pump in eccentric position;

a vacuum pump being a type of a piston pump;

a cylinder equipped in the vacuum generator, a hole opening one part of the cylinder to the atmosphere;

a connecting tube linking the opposite side of the cylinder to a suction port of the vacuum generator;

a rod descended by a difference between the vacuum pressure of the suction port and the atmospheric pressure of the suction port.

11. The multi-purpose blender for vacuum packages according to a claim 1, 2, 5 or 6, wherein the vacuum suction device includes a tube for connecting the vacuum generator and the vacuum container each other;

a suction means coupled with the tube;

a vacuum releasing switch for opening and closing a hole formed in the suction means;

a piston moved by a difference between the atmospheric pressure and the vacuum pressure of the internal suction means;

a transparent window for displaying the motion of the piston to an outside; and

a spring for returning the piston to an original position.

12. A vacuum generator for a blender, comprising:

an upper coupling coupled with a lower coupling of the blender'"'"'s main body to rotate;

a small diameter gear of the Bevel gear connecting to the upper coupling;

a big diameter gear of the Bevel gear assembled with a piston rod of the vacuum pump in eccentric position;

a vacuum pump being a type of a piston pump;

a cylinder equipped in the vacuum generator;

a hole opening one part of the cylinder to the atmosphere;

a connecting tube linking the opposite side of the cylinder to a suction port of the vacuum generator;

a rod descended by a difference between the vacuum pressure of the suction port and the atmospheric pressure.

13. A vacuum suction device, comprising:

a tube for connecting a vacuum source and the vacuum container each other,

a suction means coupled with the tube;

a vacuum releasing switch for opening and closing a hole formed in the suction means;

a piston moved by a difference between the atmospheric pressure and the vacuum pressure of the internal suction means;

a transparent window for displaying the motion of the piston to an outside; and

a spring for returning the piston to an original position.