An apparatus for preparing a foam from a liquid, particularly a food liquid, such as milk or a milk-based liquid. The apparatus (10) includes a base body (16) provided with electrical connection means (52, 54) and an upper unit (12, 14) arranged to be releasably placed on the base body (16) to be electrically connected to the base body (16) through the electrical connection means (52, 54). The upper unit (12, 14) has an upper body (12) acting as a vessel and an intermediate body (14) separate from each other. The upper body (12) houses a stirring member (24). The intermediate body (14) houses electrically operated driver (42, 44, 46) for driving the stirring member (24) to rotate and a heating element (40) for heating the liquid contained in the upper body (12).

Proposed is a blender, in which a blender body operates when closure of the container lid on a container body is detected. In the blender, when the closure of the container lid is detected, power is transmitted from a first inductive coil of the blender body to a second inductive coil of the container body. A transmission module of the container body transmits a signal to a receiving module of the blender body by suing the power transmitted to the second inductive coil. When the signal is received by the receiving module, the blender body detects the closure of the container lid and is operated.

An apparatus for preparing foam from a milk-based liquid. The apparatus (1) includes: a support base; a container containing an amount liquid, the container being arrangeable in a working position on the support base; a stirrer adapted to be removably positioned in the container to rotate about an axis of rotation; and a driving device, positioned outside the container (3) and arranged to be magnetically coupled with the stirrer to drive it in rotation about the axis of rotation to stir the liquid contained in the container and form the foam. The driving device includes a stator (12) disposed around a member of the stirrer (8) generating a rotating magnetic field about the axis of rotation for inducing a rotation of the member (9) to drive the stirring device.

A liquid brewing device includes a base housing a motor and at least one base magnet rotatable by the motor relative to the base, a pitcher having an interior volume, and a brew basket for receiving brewing ingredients, the brew basket being removably insertable positioned in the interior volume of the pitcher. An agitator is positioned entirely within and rotatable relative to the brew basket, the agitator being operatively coupled to at least one agitator magnet. The at least one agitator magnet is magnetically coupled to the at least one base magnet, such that rotation of the at least one base magnet by the motor operates to rotate the at least one agitator magnet and the agitator.

A food processor comprises: a housing which includes a container-accommodating chamber; an accommodating tank which is accommodated in the container-accommodating chamber, has an opening portion for inputting food ingredients, and has an accommodating space for accommodating the food ingredients input through the opening portion; a cover which closes the opening portion while coupled to the accommodating tank, and has an air exhaust part communicating with the accommodating space; a vacuum pump which is provided in the housing; and a vacuum port which is configured to be switched between a first state in which the vacuum port is in close contact with the air exhaust part inside the container-accommodating chamber, and a second state in which the vacuum port is spaced apart from the air exhaust part, the vacuum port including an exhaust line for communicatively connecting the vacuum pump and the air exhaust part in the first state.

A coffee brewing system includes a brew vessel adapted to receive water and ground coffee to produce and store a brewed beverage. The brew vessel includes a filter and a magnet stirrer in the lower portion of the brew vessel. The magnet stirrer creates a water vortex for brewing the coffee. The used coffee grounds are allowed to settle on the filter creating a bed of used coffee grounds and the coffee is then filtered through both the bed of used coffee grounds and the filter and collected in a coffee storage container.

An apparatus for agitating liquid foodstuff, comprising a whisk that includes a magnetic rotor of a brushless electromotor assembly, and a main body including a liquid foodstuff container in which the whisk is receivable such that it is rotatable around a rotation axis thereof, and a stator of the electromotor assembly. The stator is configured to electromagnetically drive the rotor in rotation, and includes at least one magnetic sensor configured to provide a signal that reflects positional changes of the magnetic rotor relative to the magnetic sensor. The main body also includes a controller configured to detect an initial, manually effected rotational movement of the whisk around its rotation axis from the signal of the magnetic sensor, and, once such initial movement of the whisk is detected, to operate the apparatus independent of said initial, movement.

Provided is a device, comprising: a barrier configured to impeded or prevent particles shed by a robot in a first volume of space from entering a second volume of space in which the robot manipulates a workpiece; and a robot having three or more degrees of freedom, the robot comprising: a first portion disposed on a first side of the barrier in the first volume, the first portion comprising an actuator of the robot, the actuator being configured to drive movement of the robot to manipulate the workpiece; and a second portion disposed on a second side of the barrier in the second volume, the second portion comprising an end-effector of the robot by which the robot makes contact with the workpiece.

A machine (1) has: a tank (10) having a cavity (10′) for containing and processing a batch of liquid food substance; a stirring tool (15) in the cavity (10′) having a stirring surface (151) for imparting a mechanical effect on said food substance in the cavity (10′) to froth the food substance; an actuator configured to rotate the stirring tool (15) in the cavity (10); and a control unit configured to control the actuator so that the rotational speed of the stirring tool (15) is changeable. The control unit has a mode in which the actuator is controlled by the control unit so that: during a first phase (501) of processing the batch, the stirring tool (15) is rotated below a low frothing rotational speed (511); and thereafter during a second phase (502) of processing said batch, the rotational speed (512) of the stirring tool (15) is increased from the low frothing rotational speed (511) to above a high frothing rotational speed (513); and thereafter during a third phase (503) of processing said batch, the stirring tool (15) is rotated above the high frothing rotational speed (513).

A coffee brewing system includes a brew vessel adapted to receive water and ground coffee to produce and store a brewed beverage. The brew vessel includes a filter and a magnet stirrer in the lower portion of the brew vessel. The magnet stirrer creates a water vortex for brewing the coffee. The used coffee grounds are allowed to settle on the filter creating a bed of used coffee grounds and the coffee is then filtered through both the bed of used coffee grounds and the filter and collected in a coffee storage container.