Patent ID: 8398298

Claim:
An automatic pot stirrer comprising: a mount assembly; a pot plate connected to the mount assembly; a shaft having opposed blade and motor ends supported by the mount assembly; a block having opposed first and second block end walls and wherein the first block end wall is threaded to the blade end of the shaft; the block is a cylindrical shaped body and the cylindrical shaped body is formed with first and second paddle block walls that are offset from one another by one hundred eighty degrees on the cylindrical shaped body, and each of the first and second paddle block walls is at about a forty-five degree angle relative to the second block end wall of the cylindrical shaped body, and the second block end wall meets with the first and second paddle block walls; the first paddle block wall of the cylindrical shaped body is flat and extends to a first paddle engaging lip, and the first paddle engaging lip extends beyond the first paddle block wall such that the first paddle engaging lip is at an angle relative to the first paddle block wall; the second paddle block wall of the cylindrical shaped body is flat and extends to a second paddle engaging lip, and the second paddle engaging lip extends beyond the second paddle block wall such that the second paddle engaging lip is at an angle relative to the second paddle block wall, and the angle is the same as the angle the first paddle engaging lip makes with the first paddle block wall; a pair of paddles each having opposed first and second edge walls and opposed first and second paddle sides, and the second edge wall is at an angle relative to the second paddle side, and the angle is the same as the angle the first paddle block wall makes with the first paddle engaging lip and the same as the angle the second paddle block wall makes with the second paddle engaging lip; the second paddle side of one of the paddles abuts the first paddle block wall, and the second edge wall of the paddle abuts the first engaging lip and wherein only the second paddle side and second edge wall of the paddle contact the cylindrical shaped body; the second paddle side of the other paddle abuts the second paddle block wall, and the second edge wall of the another paddle abuts the second engaging lip and wherein only the second paddle side and second edge wall of the other paddle contact the cylindrical shaped body; and, the paddle is connected to the first paddle block wall of the cylindrical shaved body and the other paddle is connected to the second paddle block wall of the cylindrical shaped body.