Ice cream scoop or scoop for another food of semisolid consistency
OwnerPaolo Laschetinventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an ice cream scoop or scoop for another food of semisolid consistency, comprising a bowl or spatula and a handle carrying said bowl or spatula, said scoop being adapted to make a portion in said bowl or spatula, preferably a spherical portion, of said ice cream or other food, when said bowl or spatula is moved through a bulk of said ice cream or other food. According to the invention, the scoop comprises dispensing means of at least one food sauce suitable for dispensing said food sauce on and/or within said ice cream or other food portion during the formation of said ice cream or other food portion in said bowl or spatula.
Claims31
An ice cream portioner comprising:
- an elongated handle shaped to be gripped manually;
- a hemispherical bowl connected to the handle, the bowl shaped to create at least part of an ice cream ball when the bowl is slid over the surface of a semi-solid portion of ice cream, the bowl comprising:
- at least one bowl surface;
- and
- a dispensing portion comprising a slot or plurality of openings which open onto the at least one bowl surface, the slot or plurality of openings configured to supply an edible cream on an external surface of the ice cream ball and wherein the bowl further comprises:
- a longitudinal axis and a midline perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, wherein the midline bisects the bowl;
- and a dispensing portion that extends across the bowl in a direction from the handle to the distal end of the bowl and is intersected by the midline;
- an elongated chamber extending axially inside the handle, the elongated chamber configured to interact with the edible cream under at least some pressure, the elongated chamber comprising:
- an outlet;
- at least one supply duct extending between the outlet and the dispensing portion;
- and
- a separator element configured to fluidically separate the elongated chamber into a first chamber and a second chamber, the first chamber configured to:
- house the edible cream;
- and
- communicate the edible cream to the at least one supply duct, the second chamber configured to:
- at least one of:
- store a pressurized gas, or house a gas pressure generator element;
- and
- communicate the pressurized gas to act on the separator element to exert an action towards the first chamber to motivate flow of the edible cream to the at least one supply duct;
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- a manually operated valve disposed along the at least one supply duct, the manually operated valve configured to regulate a quantity of the edible cream supplied to the external surface of the ice cream ball.
Ice cream scoop comprising an elongated handle connected to a bowl having an inner surface said bowl being designed in use to collect an ice cream portion inside the bowl which forms, by rolling along the inner surface of the bowl, a spherical portion of said ice cream when said bowl is moved through a bulk of said ice cream, wherein said scoop comprises dispensing means of at least one food sauce contained in a container,
- said dispensing means being located on the inner surface of said bowl and configured to dispense said food sauce during formation of said spherical portion so that the food sauce spreads on the outer surface of said ice cream sphere;
- the dispensing means comprising one or more slots and/or a plurality of dispensing nozzles located in the vicinity of a substantially median area of the inner surface of the bowl, with respect to the direction of longitudinal development of the handle, said dispensing means being connected through a conduit to at least said one container containing said food sauce.
Ice cream scoop comprising an elongated handle connected to a bowl having an inner surface said bowl being designed in use to collect an ice cream portion inside the bowl which forms, by rolling along the inner surface of the bowl, a spherical portion of said ice cream when said bowl is moved through a bulk of said ice cream, wherein said scoop comprises dispensing means of at least one food sauce contained in a container,
- said dispensing means being located on the inner surface of said bowl and configured to dispense said food sauce during formation of said spherical portion so that the food sauce spreads on the outer surface of said ice cream sphere;
- the dispensing means comprising a plurality of dispensing nozzles located in the vicinity of a substantially median area of the inner surface of the bowl, with respect to the direction of longitudinal development of the handle, said dispensing means being connected through a conduit to at least said one container containing said food sauce,
- wherein said dispensing means are provided with a dispensing valve that is configured to be activated to allow dispensing of said food sauce;
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- wherein said container comprises a compressible elastomeric tubing within which food sauce may be contained to which pressure may be applied to force food sauce towards the dispensing means.
Ice cream scoop comprising an elongated handle connected to a bowl having an inner surface said bowl being designed in use to collect an ice cream portion inside the bowl which forms, by rolling along the inner surface of the bowl, a spherical portion of said ice cream when said bowl is moved through a bulk of said ice cream, wherein said scoop comprises dispensing means of at least one food sauce contained in a container,
- said dispensing means being located on the inner surface of said bowl and configured to dispense said food sauce during formation of said spherical portion so that the food sauce spreads on the outer surface of said ice cream sphere;
- the dispensing means comprising a plurality of dispensing nozzles located in the vicinity of a substantially median area of the inner surface of the bowl, with respect to the direction of longitudinal development of the handle, said dispensing means being connected through a conduit to at least said one container containing said food sauce,
- wherein said dispensing means are provided with a dispensing valve that is configured to be activated to allow dispensing of said food sauce;
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- said container containing food sauce is external to the handle and linked thereto via a peristaltic pump.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.