System for providing a single serving of a frozen confection
AssigneeSigma Phase, Corp.
InventorMatthew Fonte
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Abstract
A system for providing a single serving of a frozen confection, wherein the system comprises a pod comprising at least one ingredient for providing a single serving of a frozen confection; the system cools the pod; the system introduces water into the pod; the system simultaneously stirs the contents of the pod while scraping at least one wall of the pod to prevent a build-up of the frozen confection on the at least one wall of the pod; and the system ejects the frozen confection out of the pod.
Claims31
1-28. (canceled)
A method for providing a single serving of a frozen confection, the method comprising:
- inserting a pod containing one or more ingredients and a mixing paddle into a recess of a machine for providing the single serving of the frozen confection;
- contacting a side wall of the pod against a side wall of the recess;
- connecting a motor of the machine to a stem of the mixing paddle, the stem extending through a wall of the pod;
- moving the mixing paddle inside the pod while cooling the recess to form the frozen confection from the one or more ingredients;
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- dispensing the frozen confection from the pod into an edible cone or a collecting container while the pod is in the recess of the machine without the frozen confection coming into contact with another object.
A method for providing a single serving of a frozen confection, the method comprising:
- inserting a pod containing one or more ingredients and a mixing paddle into a recess of a machine for providing the single serving of the frozen confection;
- contacting a side wall of the pod against a side wall of the recess;
- connecting a motor of the machine to the mixing paddle through a cap of the pod;
- moving the mixing paddle inside the pod while cooling the recess to form the frozen confection from the one or more ingredients.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.