Editing Blender (section)

=== North America ===
The Polish-American chemist Stephen Poplawski, the owner of the [[Stevens Electric Company]], began designing drink mixers in 1919 under a contract with Arnold Electric Company, and patented the drink mixer in 1922<ref>{{cite web|url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US1480914A/en|title=Beverage mixer|website=google.com}}</ref> which had been designed to make [[Horlicks]] malted [[milkshake]]s at [[soda fountain]]s. He also introduced the liquefier blender in 1922.<ref>{{cite web |author=Mary Bellis |url=http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blblender.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120630064951/http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blblender.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 30, 2012 |title=The History of the Blender |publisher=Inventors.about.com |date=2010-06-16 |access-date=2011-04-12 }}</ref><ref name="Oster History">{{cite web | url=http://www.oster.ca/about.aspx| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407061845/http://www.oster.ca/about.aspx | archive-date=April 7, 2014|url-status=dead| title=About Oster®: The History of the Oster® Brand | publisher=[[Sunbeam Products]] | access-date=December 31, 2014}}</ref>

In the 1930s, Louis Hamilton, Chester Beach and [[Fred Osius]] produced Poplawski's invention under the brand name [[Hamilton Beach Company]]. Fred Osius improved the appliance, making another kind of blender. He approached [[Fred Waring]], a popular musician, who financed and promoted the "Miracle Mixer", released in 1933. However, the appliance had some problems to be solved about the seal of the jar and the knife axis, so Fred Waring redesigned the appliance and released his own blender in 1937, the ''Waring Blendor'' with which Waring popularized the [[smoothie]] in the 1940s. Waring Products was sold to Dynamics Corporation of America in 1957 and was acquired by [[Conair Corporation|Conair]] in 1998.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.waringpro.com/press-releases.php?download=57 |title=Waring consumer Timeline |publisher=WaringPro.com |access-date=2017-04-14}}</ref> Waring long used the trademarked spelling "Blendor" for its product; the trademark has expired.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trademarkia.com/blendor-71606582.html |title=BLENDOR Trademark Information |publisher=Trademarkia.com |access-date=2017-04-14}}</ref>

Also in 1937, W.G. Barnard, founder of [[Vitamix]], introduced a product called "The Blender,"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vitamix.com/household/infocenter/history.asp |title=Vita-Mix Company History |publisher=Vitamix.com |access-date=2011-04-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110414114516/http://www.vitamix.com/household/infocenter/history.asp |archive-date=2011-04-14 }}</ref> which was functionally a reinforced blender with a stainless steel jar, instead of the [[Pyrex]] glass jar used by Waring.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}

In 1946 John Oster, owner of the Oster barber equipment company, bought Stevens Electric Co. and designed its own blender, which Oster commercialized under the [[trademark]] ''[[Osterizer]]''. Oster was bought by [[Sunbeam Products]] in 1960.<ref name="Oster History"/><!-- subed for an otherwise identical older ref --> which released various types of blenders, such as the Imperial series, and still make the traditional ''Osterizer'' blender.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}