Patents by Inventor Stephen J. McClean

Stephen J. McClean 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).

  • Patent number: 5551335
    Abstract: A citrus juicer having a base enclosing a driving electric motor arranged to drive a pair of upstanding spindles on top of each of which is a juicing cone, the juicing cones being arranged above a container for the collection of juice, characterised in that the container is attached to the base so as to be readily removable therefrom for cleaning, a lid arranged to extend over the juicing cones and the container hingedly removably attached to the container, the lid being shaped internally to apply pressure to a half-citrus fruit placed on top of each said juicing cone on closure of the lid, the lid being moulded from plastic in a single piece, the arrangement being such that half of a citrus fruit can be placed on top of each juicing cone and the lid hinged downwardly to press simultaneously the halve of the citrus fruit onto the juicing cones in order to cause juice to be extracted from them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1996
    Assignee: Breville R & D Pty Ltd.
    Inventor: Stephen J. McClean
  • Patent number: 5479851
    Abstract: A fruit and vegetable juicer has a rotatable horizontal grating disc integral with and surrounded by a substantially frusto-conical filter sieve the sides of which project upwardly and outwardly from the grating disk, a feed tube arranged above the disc and a food pusher insertable into the tube to press food down on to the grating disc for grating, pulp and juice thereby produced flying upwardly and outwardly, the juice passing through the filter and the pulp passing over the filter for subsequent collection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1996
    Assignee: Breville Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Stephen J. McClean, Richard W. Yallop
  • Patent number: 5355779
    Abstract: A griller having a substantially horizontally extending grill member to support food while being grilled, the grill member consisting of alternating bars and slots the bars being made of aluminium, aluminium alloy or a substance having similar heat transmitting properties there being arranged under the grill member an elongated electric heating element that is accommodated within a groove formed on the underside of the grill member, whereby fats and liquids emerging from food being cooked on the grill member are prevented from coming into contact with the electric heating element, an electric plug socket connected to the electric heating element directly and without intervention of a thermostat, the heating element and the grill member being constructed and arranged so that heat from the heating element is distributed more or less evenly over the surface of the grill member, the grill member being removeably supported on a container that in use underlies the grill member and acts to catch fat and liquids from
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1994
    Assignee: Breville R & D Pty Limited
    Inventors: William J. O'Brien, Stephen J. McClean
  • Patent number: D439808
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: Breville Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Stephen J. McClean, Richard W. Yallop
  • Patent number: RE37152
    Abstract: A griller having a substantially horizontally extending grill member to support food while being grilled, the grill member consisting of alternating bars and slots the bars being made of aluminium, aluminium alloy or a substance having similar heat transmitting properties there being arranged under the grill member an elongated electric heating element that is accommodated within a groove formed on the underside of the grill member, whereby fats and liquids emerging from food being cooked on the grill member are prevented from coming into contact with the electric heating element, an electric plug socket connected to the electric heating element directly and without intervention of a thermostat, the heating element and the grill member being constructed and arranged so that heat from the heating element is distributed more or less evenly over the surface of the grill member, the grill member being removeably supported on a container that in use underlies the grill member and acts to catch fat and liquids from
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Inventors: William J. O'Brien, Stephen J. McClean
  • Patent number: D351083
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1994
    Assignee: Breville R & D Pty Limited
    Inventors: William J. O'Brien, Stephen J. McClean
  • Patent number: D358074
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1995
    Assignee: Breville Pty. Ltd.
    Inventor: Stephen J. McClean
  • Patent number: D377579
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1997
    Assignee: Breville Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: William J. O'Brien, Stephen J. McClean
  • Patent number: RE36464
    Abstract: A griller having a substantially horizontally extending grill member to support food while being grilled, the grill member consisting of alternating bars and slots the bars being made of aluminium, aluminium alloy or a substance having similar heat transmitting properties there being arranged under the grill member an elongated electric heating element that is accommodated within a groove formed on the underside of the grill member, whereby fats and liquids emerging from food being cooked on the grill member are prevented from coming into contact with the electric heating element, an electric plug socket connected to the electric heating element directly and without intervention of a thermostat, the heating element and the grill member being constructed and arranged so that heat from the heating element is distributed more or less evenly over the surface of the grill member, the grill member being removeably supported on a container that in use underlies the grill member and acts to catch fat and liquids from
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: Breville R & D Pty Limited
    Inventors: William J. O'Brien, Stephen J. McClean