Ice cream freezer
AssigneeTetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
InventorsKurt Kristensen, Erik Jimmy Wolf Petersen
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Abstract
An ice cream freezer comprising an elongated housing having a jacket and an interior space in which a dasher with a rotatable hollow cylinder body is arranged, the cylinder body comprising a scraper blade arranged along the periphery of the cylinder body, an inlet located before the scraper blade for allowing ice cream mixture to enter an inside of the cylinder body, and an outlet located after the scraper blade for allowing ice cream mixture to leave the inside of the cylinder body, wherein the inlet comprises a lead surface that has a lead angle of at least 3° for pushing the ice cream mixture in the axial direction of the cylinder body.
Claims15
An ice cream freezer comprising
- an elongated housing having a jacket and an interior space, and
- a dasher comprising a hollow cylinder body arranged in the interior space for rotating in a rotational direction about a central axis of the cylinder body to agitate and mix ice cream mixture that is fed through the interior space, the cylinder body comprising
- a scraper blade arranged along the periphery of the cylinder body,
- an inlet that is, as seen in the rotational direction, located before the scraper blade for allowing ice cream mixture to enter an inside of the cylinder body, and
- an outlet that is, as seen in the rotational direction, located after the scraper blade for allowing ice cream mixture to leave the inside of the cylinder body, wherein
- the inlet comprises a lead surface that has a lead angle of at least 3° for pushing the ice cream mixture in the axial direction of the cylinder body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.