Patent ID: 7201338

Claim:
A frozen beverage blender equipped with an ice cutting mechanism including an upright machine frame mounted on a base structure, an upper hood horizontally mounted on the upper portion of the machine frame to be detachable downwardly, the upper hood having a downwardly inclined conical inner surface, a cutting disk coupled at its lower end outer periphery with a lower end outer periphery of the upper hood to be detachable downwardly, the cutting disk having a conical upper surface downwardly inclined from its center and being provided with a cutting blade mounted thereon in such a manner that the edge of the cutting blade is positioned upward at a radial slit formed in the cutting disk, a rotary shaft vertically extending through the center of the upper hood and being supported at its lower end on the head of the cutting disk, and a rotary plate driven by the rotary shaft to rotate along the upper surface of the cutting disk, wherein the upper hood has a cylindrical head portion formed with an inlet opening for introducing ice cubes falling from an ice storage container located above the machine frame, and wherein a cylindrical lower hood is integrally assembled with the lower end outer periphery of the upper hood through the lower end outer periphery of the cutting disk, and a beverage container put on the base structure to store an amount of beverage and detachably engaged at its upper end opening with the lower end outer periphery of the lower hood to receive ice pieces sliced by and dropping from the cutting blade.