Patent ID: 9687103
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: A47J

Claim:
1. A cooking appliance comprising: a housing defining a heating cavity and including a bottom wall defining an alignment receptacle; a lid operable between open and closed positions and including a sidewall defining an alignment notch; a stirring tower having a supporting platform disposed under the bottom wall of the housing and including an alignment seat selectively coupled with the alignment receptacle of the housing; a drive system disposed in the stirring tower; a mixing arm operably coupled to the stirring tower and operable between a mixing state when the drive system is activated and an idle state when the drive system is deactivated; and a cooking vessel disposed in the heating cavity and including an alignment trough, wherein the alignment trough and the alignment notch selectively define a mixing arm aperture that selectively receives the mixing arm when the lid is in the closed position, wherein the mixing arm extends through the mixing arm aperture defined by both of the alignment trough and the alignment notch when the mixing arm is in the mixing state and the lid is in the closed position.