Drink mixer

Abstract

A drink mixer which may be used by children as well as by adults to mix a liquid with a wide variety of ingredients including air, other liquids, or solids, which may be comminuted during mixing. The device consists of four major components or assemblies, these being a tapered cylindrical container ( 12 ), a container top assembly ( 14 ), a handle assembly ( 16 ), and a mixing disk ( 18 ) carried by the handle assembly. The parts are so designed so that the mixing disk may be reciprocated downwardly and upwardly repeatedly by the handle assembly to mix the liquid within the container with other ingredients. The container top assembly is secured to the container in a liquid tight manner, the container top assembly having a pour spout which may be covered tightly. A temperature indicia which changes color when the contents change temperature may be incorporated into the mixer.

What is claimed is:  
     
         1 . A drink mixer for mixing liquids with various ingredients including, but not limited to, air, syrups, ice cream, powders, and/or fruit; the drink mixer comprising: 
 a tapered translucent plastic container having an open top, a bottom, and sidewalls extending upwardly from the bottom to the top, the top of the container being wider than the bottom of the container;    a container top assembly which may be secured onto the top of the container to close the top of the container, the container top assembly including 
 a dome shaped top having a centrally located opening and a pour opening located to one side of the centrally located opening, and  
 a cover lid for opening and closing the pour opening;  
   a handle assembly which may be secured into the centrally located opening in the dome shaped top to close the centrally located opening, the handle assembly including 
 a support element which passes through the centrally located opening and which may be interconnected thereto for reciprocal movement, and  
 a handle top mounted above the top of the support element,  
 the handle assembly being so arranged and constructed that it may be reciprocated downwardly and upwardly; and  
   a mixing disk carried by the lower end of the support element, the mixing disk having a plurality of apertures through which liquid may pass when movement of the support element causes the mixing disk to be moved up and down, thereby mixing the liquid with other ingredients.    
     
     
         2 . The drink mixer as set forth in  claim 1  wherein the handle top is a removable sculpture which may represent an animal.  
     
     
         3 . The drink mixer as set forth in  claim 1  wherein the cover lid is part of a pour spout assembly which includes a pour spout, the cover lid being a flip top pour spout cover lid secured to the pour spout by a hinge for movement between open and closed positions, and wherein the pour spout and the flip top cover lid are provided with matching locking devices capable of holding the flip top cover lid in a closed position.  
     
     
         4 . The drink mixer as set forth in  claim 1  wherein a portion of the drink mixer is provided with temperature indicia which will change color, for example from red to blue, when the temperature decreases to have a magical effect when ice cream is added to milk, and will also indicate when the milk and ice cream are properly mixed, the temperature indicia changing when the ingredients reach a desired low temperature.  
     
     
         5 . The drink mixer as set forth in  claim 4  wherein the sidewalls of the tapered translucent plastic container is provided with a label, at least a portion of the label changing color.  
     
     
         6 . The drink mixer as set forth in  claim 4  wherein the one of the plastic parts, or a portion thereof, may be made of a plastic that will change color in response to temperature changes.  
     
     
         7 . The drink mixer as set forth in  claim 1  wherein the plurality of apertures in the mixing disk are four large pie portion apertures which are separated from each other by radially extending spokes.  
     
     
         8 . The drink mixer as set forth in  claim 1  wherein a compression spring is disposed about the support element and below the handle top to normally forcing it upwardly, the handle assembly being so arranged and constructed that when the handle top is pressed downwardly the spring will be compressed and when the handle is released the spring will force the support element upwardly.