Apparatus for preparing ice cream and like frozen products
AssigneeMilk Cream Ltd.
InventorAbraham Katz
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Abstract
The invention relates to an apparatus for making frozen yogurt sherbet and ice cream, comprising a heat transfer vessel and a scraper for use with a heat exchanger, wherein at least one heat exchanger vessel is used for rotation therein, said vessel comprising coupling means at its exterior bottom for coupling to a motor, a cooling medium within the housing surrounding the vessel, a motor for rotating the at least one vessel within the housing, and a scraper fixedly mounted on the housing extending into the vessel. The invention also relates to the vessel and scraper of the apparatus and to a method of preparing frozen yogurt sherbet and ice cream.
Claims17
1-21. (canceled)
An apparatus for making frozen yogurt, sherbet and ice cream, comprising:
- a housing having a counter top with at least one aperture,
- at least one heat exchanger vessel positioned in said aperture for rotation therein, said at least one vessel comprising coupling means at its exterior bottom for coupling to a motor,
- the interior bottom of the vessel comprises adjacent curved U shaped troughs having a center peak between them,
- a cooling medium within the housing surrounding the vessel,
- a motor for rotating the at least one vessel within the housing,
- a single scraper blade fixedly mounted on the housing extending into the vessel,
- wherein the single scraper blade has a J shape with a straight vertical portion thereof extending into the vessel alongside its wall and the bottom portion of the single scraper blade curves and ends along the bottom of the vessel as the curvature of the bottom trough, and the straight vertical portion and the bottom curved portion of the scraper blade have different cross sections.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.