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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 22, 1998
Jon R Rossman, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Bryan R Hotaling, Arlington, MA (US);
The First Yeras Inc., Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides an apparatus comprising a container having a bottom wall and a side wall extending upwardly therefrom to define a first chamber that is rotationally symmetric about an axis throughout a major portion of its perimeter and a second chamber in communication with the first chamber, a divider rotatably receivable by the first chamber and having a shaft and a plurality of fins extending from the shaft toward an inner surface of the side wall, a first-chamber cover adapted to be received by a top edge of the container side wall to provide an upper surface for the first chamber and defining a hole for rotatably receiving the shaft.