US 12,419,463 B2
Self-cleaning automated blended drink machine
Morgan Abraham, Boston, MA (US); and Pascal Kriesche, Boston, MA (US)
Assigned to Smoodi, Inc., Boston, MA (US)
Filed by SMOODI, INC., Boston, MA (US)
Filed on Mar. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/195,080.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/986,432, filed on Mar. 6, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0274974 A1, Sep. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. A47J 43/044 (2006.01); A23L 19/00 (2016.01); A47J 43/07 (2006.01); A47J 43/08 (2006.01)
CPC A47J 43/044 (2013.01) [A23L 19/09 (2016.08); A47J 43/0755 (2013.01); A47J 43/082 (2013.01); A23V 2002/00 (2013.01); A47J 2043/04472 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A machine for automated drink blending, the machine comprising:
a cup including a lid;
a cup support holding said cup;
a blender assembly including:
a blender shaft with blender blades attached thereto;
a motor for rotating said blender shaft;
a cup hat, said cup hat being sized and shaped to engage said lid from outside an internal volume and hold a top of said cup while said blender shaft descends through said cup hat to place said blender blades into said internal volume of said cup; and
a nozzle in said cup hat for supplying liquid to said internal volume of said cup through said cup hat and said cup lid; and
a lift mechanism for raising and lowering said blender assembly relative to said cup support;
wherein said motor rotates said blender shaft while said blender blades are within said internal volume of said cup.