Abstract: A blender for mixing components to produce a liquid product has an upstanding cylindrical bowl with a rotating circular disc at the bottom thereof. The disc has a circular periphery closely adjacent the side wall of the bowl and an undersurface closely adjacent the bottom wall of the bowl. Rotation of the disc effects blending of the product components and importantly creates a centrifugal draft at the disc periphery and undersurface sufficient to prevent the liquid product to flow downwardly past the disc during blending rotation thereof while the spacing of the disc from the bowl walls is sufficient to allow the blended product to flow past the disc through a discharge port in the bottom wall of the bowl when the disc rotation is stopped.

Abstract: A blender for mixing beverages that has a cylindrical upright, substantially closed, frustoconically bottomed blending bowl with an intake port at the top and a discharge port at the outer edge of the bottom of the bowl. A motor driven impeller is mounted for rotation about a longitudinal axis in the bowl and has blades projecting radially therefrom for coaction with stationary blades that extend inwardly from the bowl wall. One stationary blade is located just past the discharge port in the direction of impeller rotation to force the contents out the discharge port, which is located within the longitudinal extent of the stationary blades for this purpose. The impeller blades have edges complementary to the stationary blade edges and inclined with respect thereto and in a direction to direct the contents longitudinally toward the discharge port, for which latter purpose the impeller blades have bottom edges that are complementary to the sloping bottom wall.