IP Library Granted Patent US 9,301,648
Granted Patent B2
US 9,301,648 · App. 14/184,773 · Granted Apr 5, 2016

Drink mixer bottle and agitator

Inventors: David A. Aliberti (Verona, PA); Joshua Lederer (Pittsburgh, PA)
A47J43/27B01F13/0022
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 9,301,648
App. No.
14/184,773
Granted
Apr 5, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A shaker including a vessel and an agitator. The vessel includes a container wall. A rounded bottom closes off the container wall, wherein a border of the bottom is formed radially towards a center axis of the vessel such that the bottom transitions from the container wall to be outwardly domed. An agitator is for use in combination with the vessel, the agitator further comprising a tetrahedral body having four planar faces, four vertices, and six edges, each edge traveling between each of the vertices. Each vertex is rounded off and configured to forcibly contact the container wall and an entirety of the bottom upon shaking the vessel. These rounded vertices create a propeller-like spinning and tumbling motion through the liquid-powder mixture when the vessel is vigorously shaken up and down, and scalloped edges of the agitator produce additional turbulence to efficiently blend a liquid/powder mixture.

Claims (9)

1. A shaker, comprising:

a vessel,

an agitator for use in combination with said vessel, said agitator further comprising a tetrahedral body having four planar faces, four vertices, and six edges, each said edge traveling between each of said vertices;

each said edge is scalloped and curves inward toward a geometric center of said tetrahedral body;

each said vertex rounded off and configured to forcibly contact a container wall and a bottom of said vessel upon shaking said vessel.

2. The shaker of claim 1 , further comprising an outer sleeve connected to said container wall.

3. The shaker of claim 1 , wherein each said vertex transitions into each of said edges and each of said planar faces to define a transition portion between each of said edges.

4. The shaker of claim 1 , further comprising a medial portion defined medially along each said edge, said medial portion flattened to define an oval-like cut-out along each said edge.

5. The shaker of claim 1 , wherein said tetrahedral body is regularly symmetrical.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 14, 2017
From: ALIBERTI, DAVID A.
To: SOURCE DESIGN INTERNATIONAL, LLC
Reel/Frame 041248/0316 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 6, 2014
From: LEDERER, JOSHUA B.
To: HEADQUARTERS, INC.
Reel/Frame 032364/0369 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 61767775 · Feb 21, 2013
Related Publication 20140233344A1 · Aug 21, 2014