Cabinet for a kitchen blender, mixer, grinder, et al

• US 4,334,724 A
• Filed: 10/09/1979
• Issued: 06/15/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Henry F. Rogers Sr
• Original Assignee: Henry F. Rogers Sr
• Inventors: Rogers, Henry F. Sr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sakran, Victor N.
• Application Number:
  US06/083,161
• Time in Patent Office: 980 Days
• Field of Search: 312/280, 312/237, 312/206, 312/207, 312/208, 312/236, 312/351, 312/328, 312/290, 312/DIG. 33, 312/292, 312/245, 206/373, 206/349, 206/45, 206/45.14, 206/45.17, 206/45.19, 206/45.31, 206/320, 206/379, 211/60 T, 211/69, 211/88, 211/87
• US Class Current: 312/280
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 77/14 by incorporation of racks or supports, other than shelves, for household utensils
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 2043/0738 Means for storing accessories
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 43/07 Parts or details, e.g. mixing tools, whipping tools

Abstract

A cabinet for a kitchen appliance and its components such as "The Oster Kitchen Center" which is utilized as a blender, mixer, grinder, slicer, shredder, et al, including a bottom wall, a pair of spaced upstanding side walls and rear wall, an intermediate wall disposed above the bottom wall, a pair of projections on the rear wall contoured for locating a mixer arm in supported relationship upon the bottom wall, a slot in the intermediate wall for locating a grinder in supported relationship upon the bottom wall, apertures in the intermediate wall for locating and supporting beaters, and a pair of recesses for locating a blender container and a cutter unit upon the intermediate wall.

Claims

1. A cabinet for kitchen appliance components comprising a bottom wall, a pair of spaced upstanding sidewalls and a rear wall, an intermediate wall disposed above said bottom wall, means on said rear wall for locating a powered mixer arm in supported relationship upon said bottom wall, means on said intermediate wall for locating a grinder in supported relationship upon said bottom wall, means on said intermediate wall for locating a cutter unit on said intermediate wall, means for locating a blender container upon said intermediate wall, means for supporting a plurality of cutting discs upon said rear wall, means for supporting a plurality of beaters relative to said intermediate wall, and means for supporting an instruction book against one of said side walls.

2. The cabinet as defined in claim 1 including further means disposed on said bottom wall for locating the powered mixer arm relative thereto.

3. The cabinet as defined in claim 1 including means defined at least in part by said bottom and intermediate walls for housing a cutting disc.

4. The cabinet as defined in claim 1 wherein said blender container locating means is disposed within said cutter unit locating means.

5. The cabinet as defined in claim 1 wherein said mixer arm locating means is a projection projecting outwardly of said rear wall and having a peripheral portion contoured to the interior profile of a portion of the powered mixer arm.

6. The cabinet as defined in claim 1 wherein said intermediate wall includes a free edge spaced from one of said side walls, and said grinder locating means is a slot in said intermediate wall opening outwardly through said free edge.

7. The cabinet as defined in claim 1 wherein said instruction book supporting means includes a recess in one of said sidewalls for receiving an instruction book therein in standing-on-edge relationship, and means for supporting a wrench of the appliance in overlying relationship to said recess for retaining the instruction book therein.

8. The cabinet as defined in claim 1 wherein said blender container locating means is an upwardly opening annular channel.

9. The cabinet as defined in claim 1 wherein said cutter unit locating means is an upwardly projecting ledge transversely spanning said intermediate wall.

21. The cabinet as defined in claim 1 wherein said mixer arm locating means is a pair of generally mirror image projections projecting outwardly of said rear wall and each having a peripheral portion contoured to the interior profile of portions of the mixer arm.

22. The cabinet as defined in claim 1 wherein said mixer arm locating means is a projection projecting outwardly of said rear wall and having a peripheral portion contoured to the interior profile of a portion of the mixer arm, and further means disposed on said bottom wall for locating a mixer arm relative thereto, said last-mentioned mixer arm locating means being a projection projecting upwardly of said bottom wall and being adapted for contacting an exterior surface of the mixer arm.

23. The cabinet as defined in claim 1 wherein said intermediate wall includes a free edge spaced from one of said sidewalls, said grinder locating means being a slot in said intermediate wall opening outwardly through said free edge towards said one sidewall, said instruction book supporting means including a recess in said one sidewall for receiving an instruction book therein in standing-on-edge relationship, and means for supporting a wrench of the applicance in overlying relationship to said recess for retaining the instruction book therein.

24. The cabinet as defined in claim 1 wherein said blender container locating means is an upwardly opening annular channel formed in said intermediate wall, and said cutter unit locating means is an upwardly projecting ledge carried by said intermediate wall transversely spanning said intermediate wall.

25. The cabinet as defined in claim 1 including means defined at least in part by said bottom and intermediate wall housing a cutting disc, said last-mentioned means defining a chamber for receiving a cutting disc, said chamber being in part defined by a lowermost surface of said intermediate wall and an inner surface of an adjacent one of said side walls, and a groove in each of said lowermost surface and said inner surface of said intermediate wall and said one adjacent side wall, respectively, opening in a direction toward said bottom wall, toward said opposite side wall, respectively, and outwardly of said cabinet for receiving therein a portion of an associated cutting disc.

26. The cabinet as defined in claim 1 including further means disposed on said bottom wall for locating a mixer arm relative thereto, means defined at least in part by said bottom and intermediate walls for housing a cutting disc, said blender container locating means being disposed within said cutter unit locating means, said powered mixer arm locating means being a projection projecting outwardly of said rear wall and having a peripheral portion contoured to the interior profile of a portion of the powered mixer arm, said intermediate wall including a free edge spaced from one of said sidewalls, said grinder locating means being a slot in said intermediate wall opening outwardly through said free edge, said instruction book supporting means including a recess in one of said sidewalls for receiving an instruction book therein in standing-on-edge relationship, means for supporting a wrench of the appliance in overlying relationship to said recess for retaining the instruction book therein, said blender container locating means being an upwardly opening annular channel, and said cutter unit locating means being an upwardly projecting ledge transversely spanning said intermediate wall.

10. A cabinet for kitchen appliance components comprising a bottom wall, a pair of spaced upstanding side walls and a rear wall, cooperative locating means on said rear wall and said bottom wall for locating a powered mixer arm in supported relationship upon said bottom wall, said cooperative locating means including first locating means carried by said bottom wall for abuttingly contacting a lower end portion of the mixer arm adapted to rest upon said bottom wall, and said cooperative locating means further including at least a single projection projecting outwardly of said rear wall and having a peripheral portion contoured to the interior profile of an upper portion of the mixer arm disposed contiguous said rear wall.

11. The cabinet as defined in claim 10 wherein said cooperative locating means includes a further projection projecting outwardly of said rear wall and having a peripheral portion contoured to the interior profile of an upper portion of the mixer arm disposed contiguous said rear wall.

12. The cabinet as defined in claim 10 including an intermediate wall disposed above said bottom wall, means on said intermediate wall for locating a grinder in supported relationship upon said bottom wall, and said grinder locating means being a slot opening outwardly through a transverse terminal edge of said intermediate wall spaced from one of said side walls.

13. The cabinet as defined in claim 10 including an intermediate wall disposed above said bottom wall, and a plurality of aperture means in said intermediate wall for supportingly receiving therein shafts of a plurality of beaters.

14. The cabinet as defined in claim 10 including an intermediate wall disposed above said bottom wall, means on said intermediate wall for locating a cutter unit thereon, and means within said last-mentioned means for locating a blender container upon said intermediate wall.

15. The cabinet as defined in claim 10 including an intermediate wall disposed above said bottom wall, means on said intermediate wall for locating a cutter unit thereon, means within said last-mentioned means for locating a blender container upon said intermediate wall, said cutter unit locating means being an upwardly projecting ledge at least in part bounding a lower end portion of the cutter unit resting upon said intermediate wall, and said blender container locating means being an upwardly opening annular recess adapted to receive therein a lower peripheral edge portion of the blender container.

16. The cabinet as defined in claim 10 including a recess in one of said side walls for receiving therein an instruction book resting on edge upon said bottom wall, and means for supporting a wrench for the applicance in overlying relationship to said recess thereby retaining an instruction book within said recess.

17. The cabinet as defined in claim 10 including a plurality of means projecting from said rear wall for supporting cutter discs thereon.

18. The cabinet as defined in claim 12 including a plurality of aperture means in said intermediate wall for supportingly receiving therein shafts of a plurality of beaters.

19. The cabinet as defined in claim 12 including means on said intermediate wall in the form of an upwardly projecting ledge for locating a cutter unit on the intermediate wall by at least in part partially bounding a lower end portion of the cutter unit, and an upwardly opening annular recess within said ledge adapted to receive therein a lower peripheral edge portion of a blender container.

20. The cabinet as defined in claim 18 including means on said intermediate wall in the form of an upwardly projecting ledge for locating a cutter unit on the intermediate wall by at least in part partially bounding a lower end portion of the cutter unit, and an upwardly opening annular recess within said ledge adapted to receive therein a lower peripheral edge portion of a blender container.

27. A cabinet for kitchen appliance components comprising a bottom wall, a pair of spaced upstanding sidewalls and a rear wall, an intermediate wall disposed above said bottom wall, said intermediate wall including a free edge spaced from one of said sidewalls, means for supporting an instruction book against said one side of the wall, said instruction book supporting means including a recess in said one sidewall opening in a direction towards said intermediate wall free edge and outwardly of said cabinet in a direction away from said rear wall, said instruction book supporting recess being adapted to receive therein an instruction book in standing-on-edge relationship, and means for supporting a wrench of an associated appliance in overlying relationship to said recess for retaining the instruction book therein.

28. The cabinet as defined in claim 27 including a ledge along said bottom wall adjacent said instruction book supporting recess and defining with the latter an upwardly opening channel adapted to receive a lower edge of an associated instruction book.

29. A cabinet for kitchen appliance components comprising a bottom wall, a pair of spaced upstanding sidewalls and a rear wall, an intermediate wall disposed above said bottom wall, means on said rear wall for locating a powered mixer arm in supported relationship upon said bottom wall, said intermediate wall including a free edge spaced from one of said sidewalls, means for supporting an instruction book against said one sidewall, said instruction book supporting means including a recess in said one sidewall for receiving an instruction book therein in standing-on-edge relationship, means for supporting a wrench of the appliance in overlying relationship to said recess for retaining the instruction book therein, said powered mixer arm locating means being a projection projecting outwardly of said rear wall, and said projection having a peripheral portion contoured to the interior profile of a portion of the mixer arm.

30. The cabinet as defined in claim 29 including means on said intermediate wall for locating a grinder in supported relationship upon said bottom wall, and said grinder locating means being a slot in said intermediate wall opening outwardly through said free edge in a direction towards said one sidewall.