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US 2019/0313665 A1Published application
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.
Claims21
1-28. (canceled)
A method for providing cooled food or drink, the method comprising:
- inserting a pod into a recess of a machine for providing the cooled food or drink, the pod containing one or more ingredients and a paddle;
- contacting a sidewall of the pod against a sidewall of the recess;
- connecting a motor of the machine to the paddle by a shaft extending through an end wall of the pod;
- rotating the mixing paddle inside the pod in a mixing direction to force contents of the pod downward until contact with a floor of the pod which churns the contents upwards within the pod through openings defined in blades of the paddle;
- opening a seal closing an opening defined in a floor of the pod;
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- rotating the mixing paddle inside the pod in a dispensing direction to force the contents of the pod through the opening in the floor of the pod.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.