The Pampered Chef, Ltd.

3M Innovative Properties Company

Kevin M Hess

Scott R Fohrman

Gail P Baumgart

Elizabeth K Schnitzer

Lisa F Molinaro

Sponge holder

A multi-purpose closure opener for use with a variety of containers including twist-top bottles, vacuum-sealed jars and tab-top cans. A rigid elongated main body supports a twist-top opening section, a jar lid opening section and a tab-top can closure opening section for convenient opening of a selected one of these several containers in a single unitary construction. The twist-top opening section allows engagement of at least two bottle cap types, while the tab-top can closure opening section is designed to engage a variety of different sized and shaped tabs. The jar lid opening section permits easy jar lid seal-breaking convenience on the same opener. A magnet secured to the elongated body allows the opener to be mounted for storage on a kitchen appliance, such as a refrigerator, having a metal surface, or other suitable metal surface.

Multi-purpose opener

A combination mixing pitcher having a mixer subassembly that incorporates an impeller which is reciprocally longitudinally slidably movable but not rotatable within the pitcher. The impeller is fixed to one end of a plunger rod that reciprocates slidably through a matingly engagable axial channel in a lid that peripherally closes the pitcher mouth. The impeller employs a plurality of flat, radially pitched, fan shaped blades that are in radially equally spaced relationship to each other and that extend between a central hub and a peripheral polygonally configured rim. The mixer subassembly maximizes mixing of a liquid in the pitcher with a minimum of time and energy and with no spillage.

Mixing pitcher

Steamer

Juice pitcher

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Mount Prospect, IL, United States of America

Kevin M Hess