Patents by Inventor Felix Thies

Felix Thies has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20190255494
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a food preparation appliance comprising a rotatable tool for chopping and/or blending a food in a food preparation pot. The tool can be mounted for rotating and can be detachably connected to a shaft. The shaft can be at least partially outside the food preparation pot. A locking mechanism is provided for connecting the tool to the shaft in a locked manner. The locking of the tool to the shaft can take place automatically. The food preparation appliance can thus be cleaned with particularly little effort.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Philipp Charopoulos, Niklas van Teeffelen, Felix Thies
  • Publication number: 20190239681
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (10) for at least partially closing an opening (5) of a cooking vessel (2), having a support element (11) which can be brought to rest on an opening edge (6) of the opening (5) of the cooking vessel (2), and a plug-in element (12) which can be inserted at least partially through the opening (5), characterized in that the plug-in element (12) has a locking means (13) which can be brought into a locking position (I) in which the locking means (13) interacts with the opening edge (6), so that pulling out (205) of the plug-in element (12) is prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Felix Thies, Matthias Varnhorst, Jutta Schomacher, Michael Sickert
  • Publication number: 20190216265
    Abstract: A cover element for at least partially covering a vessel opening of a preparation vessel of a food processor and/or a cover opening of a vessel cover for the preparation vessel, wherein the cover element has a radially outwardly facing support edge to be supported on the preparation vessel and/or vessel cover. The support edge has a continuously curved base contour viewed in the axial direction, and has at least two support elements, which lie opposite each other, are separate from each other and protrude over the base contour. The support elements extending in an imaginary circular ring surface that reaches from a radially outer edge of the support elements up to the base contour are identically designed on both opposing sides viewed in the axial direction and formed in the same plane extending perpendicular to the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicant: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Isabell NEUBERT, Felix THIES
  • Publication number: 20190167042
    Abstract: An activation device for transmitting a user input to a control device has an engaging element that forms a first housing part and a feeding element that forms a second housing part. The engaging element has a push magnet, whose magnetic field extends into the feeding element and the feeding element has a push magnet that can be displaced without contact through exposure to the magnetic field. The engaging push magnet can be displaced in the direction of the feeding element by pressure-activating the activation device, and is set up to exert a magnetic force on a corresponding feeding push magnet. The engaging element and feeding element each have at least one rotating magnet that can be displaced parallel to an intermediate plane running between them. The engaging rotating magnet of the engaging element exerts a magnetic force on a corresponding feeding rotating magnet of the feeding element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp CHAROPOULOS, Felix THIES
  • Patent number: 10220362
    Abstract: A mixing vessel for a food processor operated by an electric motor, which mixing vessel has a mixing mechanism which can be connected to a rotary drive of the food processor by means of a coupling driver, wherein the mixing vessel has a cleaning device for cleaning an inner wall of the mixing vessel, in particular a floor of the vessel. The cleaning device is arranged on the mixing vessel, in particular on a vessel wall and/or the mixing mechanism, and has at least one cleaning element which is designed such that, upon actuation of the cleaning device, it sweeps over the inner wall and/or over sub-regions of the mixing mechanism and, by interacting mechanically with any deposits which may be located on the inner wall and/or the mixing mechanism, helps to remove the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Felix Thies, Jan Von Der Heyden, Reiner Emmermacher
  • Publication number: 20170368519
    Abstract: A mixing vessel for a food processor operated by an electric motor, which mixing vessel has a mixing mechanism which can be connected to a rotary drive of the food processor by means of a coupling driver, wherein the mixing vessel has a cleaning device for cleaning an inner wall of the mixing vessel, in particular a floor of the vessel. The cleaning device is arranged on the mixing vessel, in particular on a vessel wall and/or the mixing mechanism, and has at least one cleaning element which is designed such that, upon actuation of the cleaning device, it sweeps over the inner wall and/or over sub-regions of the mixing mechanism and, by interacting mechanically with any deposits which may be located on the inner wall and/or the mixing mechanism, helps to remove the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: Vorwerk & Co. lnterholding GmbH
    Inventors: Felix THIES, Jan VON DER HEYDEN, Reiner EMMERMACHER
  • Patent number: D747143
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Jutta Schomacher, Markus Cornelissen, Uwe Kemker, Felix Thies, Raphael Liss
  • Patent number: D747917
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Kemker, Felix Thies
  • Patent number: D750934
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Kemker, Felix Thies
  • Patent number: D750936
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Kemker, Felix Thies
  • Patent number: D751857
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Kemker, Felix Thies
  • Patent number: D755792
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Lessel, Uwe Kemker, Felix Thies
  • Patent number: D772001
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Kemker, Felix Thies