Patent ID: 11896276
Assignee: MEDTRONIC HOLDING COMPANY SARL
Field: Chemical engineering (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC A  B | IPC A  B

Claim 10:
11. A method of mixing and agitating materials using a manual mixer, the method comprising:
providing the manual mixer having a body portion, a mixing assembly, and an actuation assembly, the body portion defining an interior cavity for receiving at least a portion of the mixing assembly, the mixing assembly including a paddle portion and a plunger portion, a portion of the paddle portion being received within an aperture extending through the plunger portion, the plunger portion being moveable downwardly along the paddle portion, and the actuation assembly including a transmission and a drive shaft, the transmission including a first gear connected to the paddle portion and a second gear connected to the drive shaft;
providing the materials to be mixed and agitated in the interior cavity; and
actuating the actuation assembly to operatively connect the second gear to the first gear via linear movement of the drive shaft from a first position to a second position, to translate the linear movement of the drive shaft from the first position to the second position thereof into rotation the second gear to correspondingly rotate the paddle portion when the first gear and the second gear are operatively connected to one another, to rotate the plunger portion with the rotation of paddle portion, and simultaneously move the plunger portion downwardly along the paddle portion within the interior cavity.