Abstract:
A shaker assembly has a body with viewing panels on opposite sides. An agitator is viewable through the viewing panels. Agitators have printable panels or molded figurines which may be in shapes of corporate logos or names. Conically tapered springs have inner smaller ring-shaped ends connected an agitator and outer larger ring-shaped ends positioned away from the agitator. The printed panels or molded figurines are visible through the viewing panels when the shaker assembly is in motion or at rest. The lid has a smooth outer surface. A hinged cover rotates outward from the smooth outer surface to open a pouring spout in the lid. A carabiner clip rotates outward from the smooth outer surfaces of the lid and hinged cover. When closed and stored, the cover and the carabiner clip complete the smooth outer surfaces of the lid.

Description:
This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/879,848 filed Sep. 19, 2013, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety as if fully set forth herein. 
    
    
     SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     An assembled shaker has a customizable agitator and a screw-on oval lid with a pour spout, a hinged snap-on cap and a hinged carabiner clip. The assembled shaker bottle has several agitator approaches: a printable panel; shaped figurines of characters, object, faces, etc.; and names, all of which operate as agitators. 
     Agitators may show corporate logos or cartoons or comic figurines. Printable or engraved panels, business or client names or nicknames are supported between springs. The entire movable assemblies act as the agitators. The springs may be metal or molded plastic helixes in conical or cylindrical shape or resilient curved forms that resemble and provide the spring-like qualities and functions. 
     The new shaker bodies are transparent or translucent and have large flat or curved viewing windows on opposite sides for viewing the agitators and seeing the printed panels, figurines or names. 
     The new lid is unique, with the new hinged stopper cap and the new hinged carabiner clip that conform to the lid curvature and disappear into the lid. A mushroom shape of the lid has an outward extending side or indentations allowing rotating of the stopper cap or carabiner upward around a hinge axis. 
     The body is unique as showing the agitator though large viewing panels. The viewing panels have level markers for precise measurements and may have lens-like thickness for magnifying the agitators. The agitators are unique. The agitators may have one or more through-holes with mixing edges. The agitators can be any printed panels, figurines, logos or names with or without open spaces, through which liquid can travel, and which are supported by spring wire frameworks, or constructions that act as agitators to shear, deflect and mix the liquid. The agitators attach to the small inner ends of opposite internal devices or conical springs. The decorative and informational agitators move freely in the center of the mixers bottle. The ability to offer custom made corporate agitators is unique. Agitators may be molded, stamped or cast. The agitators may be in shapes of cartoon characters, vehicles or vehicle parts, corporate logos or names, for example. Flat mixing panels, figurines or letters used along with the wire springs as additional agitators are unique because of the dual agitation ability in the new dual agitation system. 
     In other embodiments, the new agitators operate by hanging from a flexible or resilient attachment, sliding on a pole or rigid attachment, or as physically independent agitators. 
     A shaker assembly has a body, a lid connectable to the body and an agitator mounted within the body. The agitator is flat and has mixing edges for mixing any material held within the body as the body with the lid attached is shaken to shear and blend, mix or homogenize any material within the body. 
     The body has transparent viewing panels for viewing the agitator within the body. The agitator has a corporate logo visible through its transparent viewing panels. The agitator is in the shape of a corporate logo with the mixing edges being edges of the corporate logo. The agitator has at least one through-hole with additional mixing edges. 
     In one embodiment, a tether is connected to the lid and to one of the mixing edges of the agitator, the tether allowing movement of the agitator throughout the body. The agitator has more than one flat parts joined at angles, the flat parts have mixing edges and the flat parts displaying company logos. 
     In another embodiment, a rod is connected to the lid and a central annular opening in the agitator receives the rod and slides the agitator along the rod when the lid is secured on the body and the body is shaken. The agitator has multiple open through spaces with mixing edges. 
     Springs are connected to and extend opposite from the agitator, and bounce and accelerate the agitator through the body when the lid is secured to the body and the body is shaken. The springs are conical and have smaller diameter ends connected to the agitator and larger diameter ends positioned outward from the agitator, thereby supporting the agitator on one of the larger diameter ends in contact with a bottom of the body when the body is at rest. 
     A distance between the larger diameter ends of the spring is greater than a cross-sectional dimension of the body, ensuring that the springs and agitator remain upright in the body. An upper end of the body has a threaded engagement and a lower end of the lid has a complementary threaded engagement for tightening the lid on the body. A hinge is connected to the lid, a tab is connected to the hinge and an opening in the tab receives a holder such as a snap-ring or carabiner to transport the shaker assembly. 
     The lid further comprises a base for connecting to the shaker body, a pouring spout on the base, and a cover hingedly connected to the base for closing and opening the pouring spout. The cover and the base have smooth outer contours forming a smooth outer surface of the lid. The lid has a base gap with two upstanding portions on opposite sides of the base gap. Inner sides of the upstanding portions have hinge connection. The cover has downward extending sides, and the downward extending sides have complementary hinge connections. 
     The cover has a cover gap near the complementary hinge connections. A carabiner connector is positioned in the cover gap and is hingedly connected to the cover in the cover gap. The carabiner connector folds into the cover gap for storage. Pressing on an edge of the carabiner connector rotates it out of the cover gap for use. When the carabiner connector is stored in the cover gap and the cover is closed, the carabiner and the cover form parts of the smooth outer surfaces of the lid. 
     A shaker assembly has a container with viewing panels. An agitator is viewable through the viewing panel. The agitator has a message display connected to a guide. The holder is a flexible tether, a rod or springs. Conically tapered springs have inner smaller ring-shaped ends connected to an agitator display and outer larger ring-shaped ends positioned away from the agitator. The agitator printed panels, molded figurines, corporate logos or corporate names are visible through the viewing panel when the shaker assembly is at rest. The lid has a smooth outer surface. A hinged cover rises from the smooth outer surface to open a pouring spout in the lid. A carabiner clip rises from the smooth outer surface of the lid. 
     A shaker assembly has a body, a lid connectable to the body and an agitator mounted within the body. The agitator has mixing edges on the agitator for mixing any material held within the body as the body with the lid attached is shaken to shear and blend, mix or homogenize any material within the body. Springs are connected to and extend opposite from the agitator and bounce and accelerate the agitator through the body when the lid is secured to the body and the body is shaken. 
     The springs are conical and have smaller diameter ends connected to the agitator and larger diameter ends positioned outward from the agitator, thereby supporting the agitator on one of the larger diameter ends in contact with a bottom of the body when the body is at rest. 
     A distance between the larger diameter ends of the spring is greater than a cross-sectional dimension of the body, ensuring that the springs and agitator remain upright in the body. 
     The body has one or more transparent viewing panels for viewing the agitator within the body. The agitator has a corporate logo visible through the one or more transparent viewing panels. The agitator is in the shape of a corporate logo with the mixing edges being edges of the corporate logo. The agitator has at least one through-hole with additional mixing edges. 
     The lid has a base for connecting to the shaker body, a pouring spout on the base, and a cover hingedly connected to the base for closing and opening the pouring spout. The cover and the base have smooth outer contours forming a smooth outer surface of the lid. 
     The lid has a base gap with two upstanding parts on opposite sides of the base gap. Inner sides of the upstanding parts have hinge connection. The cover has downward extending sides, and the downward extending sides have complementary hinge connections. 
     The cover has a cover gap near the complementary hinge connections. A carabiner connector is positioned in the cover gap and is hingedly connected to the cover in the cover gap. The carabiner connection folds into the cover gap for storage and folds out of the cover gap for use. When the carabiner connection is stored and the cover is closed, the entirety of the lid has smooth outer surfaces. 
     In other embodiments, a tether is connected to the lid and to one of the mixing edges of the agitator, the tether allowing movement of the agitator throughout the body. In one form, a rod is connected to the lid and a central annular opening in the agitator receives the rod and slides the agitator along the rod when the lid is secured on the body and the body is shaken. The agitator has multiple open through spaces with mixing edges. 
     These and further and other objects and features of the invention are apparent in the disclosure, which includes the above and ongoing written specification, with the claims and the drawings. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
         FIGS. 1 and 2  are top and side perspective views of the shaker. 
         FIG. 3  is a top view of the shaker. 
         FIGS. 4, 5 and 6  are front, rear and viewing panel side views of the shaker, respectively. 
         FIG. 7  is a bottom view of the shaker. 
         FIG. 8  is a side view of the agitator within the shaker. 
         FIG. 9  is a front view of the agitator. 
         FIG. 10  is a cross-sectional view of the agitator taken along line B-B in  FIG. 22 . 
         FIG. 11  is a top and rear perspective view of the agitator. 
         FIG. 12  is a top perspective view of the shaker with the lid removed. 
         FIG. 13  is a cross-sectional view of the shaker taken along line A-A of  FIG. 18 . 
         FIG. 14  is a top and front perspective view of the shaker lid. 
         FIG. 15  is a top and front perspective view of the shaker lid with the hinged carabiner clip removed. 
         FIG. 16  is a top and front perspective view of the shaker lid with the hinged pour spout cover removed. 
         FIG. 17  is an exploded view of parts of the shaker lid. 
         FIGS. 18, 19 and 20  show agitator options. 
         FIG. 21  is a front view of the assembled shaker showing a screw-on oval lid with a hinge and snap-on cap, a large viewing panel for measurements and to view the corporate agitator, and a hinged carabiner clip. 
         FIG. 22  is a side view of the assembled shaker. 
         FIG. 23  is a bottom view of the body of the shaker showing the flat viewing panel. 
         FIG. 24  is a top view of the shaker depicting the screw-on oval lid with a hinge, a snap-on cap and a carabiner clip attached to the hinge. 
         FIG. 25  is a view of the assembled shaker attached to an optional snap-on storage container or drinking glass. 
         FIG. 26  is a view of the assembled shaker with an agitator hanging from an elastic band connection. 
         FIG. 27  is a view of the assembled shaker with an agitator sliding on a pole fixed to the cap. 
         FIG. 28  shows an example of a custom molded corporate logo agitator with flow-through spaces hanging from an elastic band connection within the assembled shaker. 
         FIG. 29  is a view of the assembled shaker with a customizable printed flat panel agitator sliding on a fixed pole. 
         FIG. 30  shows side and top views of an agitator having open flow-through spaces. 
         FIG. 31  shows a physically independent loose molded client/corporate name agitator having mixing, rebounding and silencing springs within the assembled shaker. 
         FIG. 32  shows a physically independent molded figurine agitator having upper and lower springs within the assembled shaker. 
         FIG. 33  shows a physically independent flat printable panel agitator with springs attached within the assembled shaker. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
       FIGS. 1 and 2  are top and side perspective views of the shaker  50 .  FIG. 3  is a top view of the shaker lid  60 . Shaker body  51  has a large viewing panel  52 . Lid  60  has a lid  60 , cover  62  and clip  64 . A rim  66  extends outward along lid  60 , cover  62  and clip  64 . The rim  66  enables the cover  62  to be raised by pushing or pulling upward on the rim portion of the cap. The carabiner clip  64  may be raised by pushing downward on the outward extended rim portion of carabiner clip. 
       FIGS. 4 through 6  show front  53 , back  54  and viewing panel sides  52 ,  55  respectively. The side opposite the viewing panel side shown in  FIG. 6  is a minor image of  FIG. 6  having a viewing panel  55  without the liquid level markers  56 . 
       FIG. 7  is a bottom view of the shaker  50  showing the shaker bottom  57  and viewing panels  52  and  55 . The bottom  55  is shown. Two opposite viewing panels  52  and  56  are shown. The viewing panels are identical, except that viewing panel  52  has level indicators  57 , which are absent on viewing panel  56 . 
       FIG. 8  is a side view of agitator  70  within the shaker  50 .  FIG. 9  is a front view of the agitator  70 .  FIG. 10  is a cross-sectional view of agitator  70  taken along line B-B in  FIG. 9 .  FIG. 11  is a top and rear perspective view of agitator  70 . 
     Agitator  70  is shown as a disk  72  with a flat, slightly concaved front and back surfaces  73 ,  74 . Rim  75  has opposite extensions  76 . Extensions  76  have grooves  77  to receive and hold the small ring-shaped termini  82  of truncated conical compression coil springs  80 . The large ring-shaped termini  84  of the coil spring contact the inside of the shaker body  51  and lid  60  during vigorous shaking and mixing. The spring coils  86  and large, ring-shaped termini  84  of springs  80  and the edges  78  of the disk  70  shear and mix liquid material in the shaker body  51 . During shaking, the concave side surfaces  73 ,  74  of the disk  70  further move and mix the liquid in shaker body  51 . 
       FIG. 12  is a top perspective view of the shaker body  51  with the lid removed. As shown, the shaker body  51  has a threaded connection  55  at its open top for connecting to the screw on lid  60 . 
       FIG. 13  is a cross-sectional view of the shaker  50  taken along line A-A of  FIG. 5 . Agitator  70  fits with clearance in all directions within shaker body  51 . Movement of agitator  70  may be seen through viewing panel  52 . When the shaker  50  is at rest, the agitator  70  may be viewed through either of the viewing panels on the opposite sides of the shaker body  51 . 
       FIG. 14  is a top and front perspective view of the shaker lid  60  with the cover  62  and carabiner clip  64  in closed positions. 
       FIG. 15  is a top and front perspective view of the shaker lid  60  with the hinged carabiner clip removed and the hinged cover  62  remaining in place in closed position. 
       FIG. 16  is a top and front perspective view of the shaker lid  60  with the hinged pour spout cover  62  removed. 
       FIG. 17  is an exploded view of lid  60 . Lid  60  has three parts that fit together in a smooth contour, the screw-on base  61 , the snap on pouring spout cover  62  and the carabiner clip  64 . Base  61  has a raised spout  63  that is closed by the snap-in cylindrical seal  65  within cover  62 . Two upstanding side portions  66  of the lid  60  have aligned holes  67  that receive cylindrical lugs of a hinge rod  68  that snap into the aligned holes in the side portions  66 . 
     Inner walls  81  of the side portions  66  are curved inward and downward. Complementary inward and downward curved walls  82  of the cover  62 , as shown in  FIG. 17 , aid in the assembling of the cover in side portions  66  of the lid  60  and in holding the cover  62  in a closed or open position. 
     Carabiner clip  64  has a hole  83  for receiving a carabiner. A narrow groove  85  elastically receives the hinge bar  68  extending inward through the groove  84  in the lid  62 . A wider hole  87  at the top of the groove  85  is snapped onto the hinge bar  68 . 
       FIGS. 18, 19 and 20  show agitator options. 
       FIG. 18  shows a molded logo  91  joined to the inner ring-shaped termini  82  of springs  80 . 
       FIG. 19  shows a molded figurine  92  having a corporate logo. Figurine  92  has end lugs with grooves as shown in  FIG. 23  for receiving and holding the inner ring-shaped termini  82  of springs  80 . 
       FIG. 20  shows a plain disk  71 , as shown in  FIGS. 21-24 , for holding a printed logo. 
     As shown in  FIGS. 21-33 , an assembled shaker  10  has a body  1  enclosing a customizable agitator  18 ,  26 ,  28 ,  30  ( FIGS. 26-33 ). A screw-on oval lid  6  has a hinge  5 . A snap-on pouring spout closure cap  7  on a resilient arm  8  and a carabiner clip  4  are pivoted on hinge  5 . The assembled shaker  10  has three agitator approaches: (1) a printable panel  30  that acts as an agitator  18 ; (2) a molded figurine  28  that acts as an agitator  18 ; and (3) a molded client-corporate name  26  that acts as an agitator  18 . The agitator  18  can hang from a tether such as an elastic band  16  ( FIG. 26 ), slide on a rigid fixed pole or tube  20  ( FIG. 27 ), or may be free-moving and physically independent ( FIGS. 30-33 ). 
       FIG. 21  is a front view of the assembled shaker  10  showing a hinge  5  on lid  6 . Hinge  5  hinges resilient cap-carrying arm  8  and carabiner clip  4 . A large viewing panel  2  on the body  1  has measurements scales and provides a view of an internal corporate logo agitator. 
       FIG. 22  is a side view of the assembled shaker  10  showing the translucent or transparent wall  3  of the body  1 . A resilient arm  8  is hinged on hinge  5 . Arm  8  carries a cap  7  that snaps on the top of the pouring spout  11  to seal the spout. A carabiner clip  4  is also hinged on hinge  5 . 
       FIG. 23  is a view of bottom  12  of the body  1  of the shaker  10 , showing the flat viewing panel  2  for viewing of the corporate agitator  18 . A step  13  extends upward from the bottom  12 . 
       FIG. 24  is a top view depicting the screw-on domed oval lid  6  of the shaker. Hinge  5  on lid  6  pivots the hinged carabiner clip  4  and the hinged arm  8  of the snap-on cap  7  that closes or opens the spout to allow pouring from the shaker without removal of the screw-on lid  6 . 
       FIG. 25  is a rear view of the assembled shaker  10 . Step  13  on bottom  12  holds an attached optional snap-on tasting or drinking cup or storage container  14 . 
       FIG. 26  is a view through a transparent wall  3  of the assembled shaker  10  with an agitator  18  hanging from stretchable, resilient or elastic band  16 . The tether  16  for hanging agitator  18  may be attached to the lid  6  or to an intermediate flat mixing screen having an edge held between the top of the shaker body  1  and lid  6 . The flat mixing screen may be separated from the shaker body. 
       FIG. 27  is a view through a transparent wall  3  of the assembled shaker  10  with an agitator  18  sliding or fixed on a tube or pole  20  which is attached to the screw-on lid  6  or an intermediate screen of the shaker. A sliding embodiment has a large central hole for freely moving up and down on tube or pole  20 . 
       FIG. 28  shows an example of a custom molded corporate logo agitator  18  with flow-through spaces  22 . Agitator  18  hangs from a tether or elastic band  16  connected to lid  6  or to an intermediate screen within the assembled shaker  10 . 
       FIG. 29  is a view of the assembled shaker  10  looking through transparent wall  3  at a customizable printed flat panel agitator  18  sliding or fixed on a tube or pole  20 . 
       FIG. 30  shows side and top views of an agitator  18  having open flow-through spaces  22 . The agitator has an X-shape  24 , as shown in the top view, to better mix contents of shaker  10 . When the agitator  18  slides on a tube or pole, a large opening extends through a center  25  of the agitator. When the agitator  18  is connected to a spring or spring, as shown in  FIGS. 31-33 , springs are attached to lower and/or upper centers  25 . 
       FIG. 31  shows a physically independent agitator  26  molded as a client/corporate name  26  with agitator spring attachments  32  on upper and lower ends of the agitator. The springs  32  shear, stir and mix the liquid or slurry in shaker  10  and rebound, quiet and reduce impacts within the assembled shaker  10 . 
       FIG. 32  shows a physically independent molded corporate logo figurine agitator  28  with agitator spring attachments  32  for mixing contents, controlling impacts and providing agitator rebounds within the assembled shaker  10 . 
       FIG. 33  shows a physically independent flat printable panel  30  agitator  30  with attachment springs  32  for content mixing, impact reduction and rebounding of the agitator within the assembled shaker  10 . 
     While the invention has been described with reference to specific embodiments, modifications and variations of the invention may be constructed without departing from the scope of the invention, which is defined in the following claims.