Appliance and capsule containing a food product
AssigneeSolo Gelato Ltd.
InventorsBarak Beth Halachmi, Eynav Kliger
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Abstract
Provided is an appliance including a receptacle for a capsule that contains a food substance; a processing unit for processing the food substance into an edible food product; an adapter unit configured for coupling to the capsule and drawing the food substance therefrom; wherein said adapter unit includes an adapter being at an end of a conduit and being configured for coupling with a tube that extends from the capsule's interior, the conduit leading to the processing unit and being linked to a vacuum source for emptying the content of the capsule by drawing the food substance out of the capsule through the tube into the conduit and transferring it through said conduit into the processing unit.
Claims9
An appliance for processing a food substance into a cooled edible food product, the appliance comprising
- a receptacle for receiving a capsule that contains said food substance;
- a vacuum;
- a conduit;
- and
- an adapter unit configured for coupling to the capsule and transferring the food substance therefrom and transferring the food substance from the capsule into the conduit;
- wherein
- said adapter unit comprises an adapter being at an end of the conduit and being configured for coupling with a tube that extends from the capsule's interior, the conduit being linked to said vacuum to permit transferring of the food substance out of the capsule through the tube into the conduit and to thereby transfer the food substance through said conduit,
- the vacuum being configured for drawing only the food substance from the capsule by said adapter unit without introducing a carrier fluid into the capsule.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.