Patent ID: 9510710
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: A47J

Claim Text:
1. A food grinder, comprising: a grinding mechanism having a grinding chamber with a plurality of electrically powered grinding members for grinding food ingredient received within the grinding chamber; an electrical grind motor located freely outside of the grinding chamber, said grind motor having no housing shared with only the grinding chamber to drive the grinding members within the grinding chamber, said electrical grind motor creating outside of the grinding chamber a detectable condition detectable outside of the grinding chamber with a characteristic that changes between means for selectively applying electrical power to the grinding mechanism; and means responsive to the detector sensing the characteristic changing for controlling the electrical power applying means including an electrical timer responsive to the detector sensing the characteristic changing from the first mode to the second mode to start a preselected time period during which power continues to be applied to the grinding mechanism; and means responsive to the timer for terminating electrical power to the grinding mechanism after the preselected time period has lapsed, said time period being sufficient to remove fines from the grinding chamber after the bulk food ingredient has been removed.