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US 2014/0175132 A1Published application
Food Dispenser
OwnerElhage John, Elhage George +1inventors
InventorsElhage John, Elhage George, Astifo Steve
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Abstract
A food product dispensing device (10) includes a housing (12) with an opening (66). The device includes a drive screw (30) for driving a piston (42) towards the opening. Portions (76) of a food product are placed in the housing and are forced through the opening by the piston as the screw is rotated. There are separators (78) between each two adjacent portions. These allow one portion at a time to be ejected through the opening and used or consumed, for example by spreading.
Claims20
A food product dispensing device including:
- a housing defining a dispensing opening;
- a piston in the housing, the piston being movable from a first position spaced a first distance from the dispensing opening to a second position spaced a second distance from the dispensing opening, the second distance being less than the first distance;
- a plurality of discrete spreadable food item portions disposed in a series arrangement within the housing between the piston and the dispensing opening;
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- an actuator attached to the housing and adapted to drive the piston from the first position to the second position thereby to drive said portions sequentially through the dispensing opening.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.