Carbonated beverage apparatus
OwnerLingyu Dong, Chundong Donginventors
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Abstract
A carbonated beverage apparatus includes a freezing cylinder for receiving a mixture, and a stirring pusher disposed inside the freezing cylinder for pushing and mixing the mixture from an inlet of the freezing cylinder to an outlet thereof in a spiral manner, wherein the mixture is removed from the inner wall of the freezing cylinder radially back into a center portion of the freezing cylinder by the stirring pusher.
Claims20
A stirring pusher for disposing inside a freezing cylinder of a carbonated beverage apparatus, including:
- a beater device, which includes:
- a supporting frame, having a first end configured for extending to the outlet of the freezing cylinder and a driven end configured for extending to the inlet of the freezing cylinder and arranged for coupling to a driving axis of a motor to drive the supporting frame to rotate, a paddle coupled at the supporting frame, and a holder coupled at the supporting frame in such a manner that the holder is spacedly apart from the driven end of the supporting frame so as to be independent and separated from the driven end of the supporting frame;
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- a baffle, positioned and surrounded by the beater device, having a first end configured to be supported at the outlet of the freezing cylinder and a second end statically held by the holder respectively for indirectly connecting to the driving axis of the motor, such that the first end and the second end are stationary and retained statically with respect to the freezing cylinder when the beater is driven to rotate.
A method of stirring a mixture received in a freezing cylinder of a carbonated beverage apparatus by a stirring pusher, comprising pushing and mixing the mixture from an inlet end to an outlet end of the freezing cylinder by the stirring pusher by:
- rotating a supporting frame of a beater device of the stirring pusher by a driving axis of a motor coupled to a driven end of the supporting frame;
- retaining a holder of the stirring pusher spacedly apart from the driven end of the supporting frame so as to independently and separated from the driven end of the supporting frame;
- statically holding a first end of a baffle of the stirring pusher which is positioned and surrounded by the beater device while a second end thereof is supported at the outlet end of the freezing cylinder for indirectly connecting to the driving axis of the motor, and
- retaining the first end and the second end of the baffle stationary and statically against the freezing cylinder when the beater device is driven to rotate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.