Patent ID: 6830205
Filing Date: 2004-12-14
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
An improvement on an electric pepper mill, comprisinga hollow main body having an upper cover turnably joined to an upper end thereof; a motor disposed in the main body with a shaft thereof passing through a lower end of the main body; a battery holder disposed in the main body and holding batteries therein; a conducting element joined to the battery holder; the conducting element being movable between an action position when the main body is upright, wherein it closes a circuit consisting of the motor and the batteries and a non-action position when the pepper mill is upside down, wherein the circuit is opened; a pepper holding element detachably joined to a lower end of the main body; a transmission shaft disposed in the pepper holding element and turnable together with the shaft of the motor; and a grinding unit including an outer part fixedly disposed in the holding element, and a rotary inner part arranged in the outer part and joined to the transmission shaft for grinding pepper between the outer and the inner parts thereof; the upper cover being capable of connecting the batteries together in a first position, and being out of electrical contact with the batteries when turned to a second position; whereby when the upper cover is in the first position, the motor is powered by the batteries, and in turns, the pepper mill works to grind pepper when the mill is in an upright position, and the pepper stops working when it is in an upside down position.