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US 4,061,248 AGranted
Multi-flavor whip cream apparatus
OwnerVincent Arenainventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an apparatus adapted for a special whip cream dispensing function, characterized by a combination of types of fluid flow channels including, as the central portion thereof, two concentric annuli which enable the apparatus to produce the present multi-flavor characteristic.
Claims2
An apparatus for the mixing and dispensing of a plurality of flowable, aerated, comestible materials, comprising:
- a. an elongated handle element having therein three longitudinal channels, and an output nozzle located on one end thereof, two of said channels providing, respectively a liquid and a gas, each of said channels extending substantially throughout the length of said handle element and corresponding to one component of said materials to be mixed, said handle element also including a first transverse bore located distal to said nozzle and a second transverse bore located proximal to said nozzle, said first bore positioned in contact with all of said channels and said second bore positioned in contact with only said liquid providing channel,
- b. a plunger positioned in said first bore having a plurality of transverse channels, said channels corresponding in position and cross-section to said longitudinal channels of said handle element, said plunger also including a biasing means externally mounted about said plunger and protruding from said handle element, wherein a selectable open-close function of said channels is obtained through the application of external pressure to said biasing means;
- c. an overrun control valve having a channel corresponding in position and cross-section to said liquid-containing channel, said valve disposed within said second transverse bore wherein, upon rotation of said valve, the ratio of gas to liquid and, thereby, the consistency of the end-product can be regulated;
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- d. a blending area located intermediate said channels and said nozzle, said blending area comprising a singular channel axially integral with said longitudinal channels and providing the junction thereof, and a conically diverging, increased diameter expansion chamber integral with said singular channel, said expansion chamber promoting the homogeneous mixture of said materials
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An apparatus for mixing and dispensing a plurality of flowable, serated comesitble materials, comprising:
- a. a primary flow area having an air input, a cream input and a plurality of color-flavor inputs, all of said inputs integral with corresponding longitudinal channels said corresponding longitudinal channels comprising an air channel, a cream channel, and a plurality of color-flavor channels;
- b. a plunger disc having a plurality of orifices, said orifices corresponding in position and cross-section to each of said longitudinal channels of said primary flow area, said plunger disc also including a biasing means externally mounted about said disc and said first primary flow area, whereby a selectable open-close function of said channels is achieved by the application of external pressure to said biasing means;
- c. a secondary flow area longitudinally aligned with said primary flow area, said secondary area including:
- a first internal annulus in radial alignment with said cream channel extending from said primary flow area;
- a second internal annulus concentric about said first annulus in radial alignment with said air channel extending from said primary flow area;
- and a plurality of color-flavor channels in radial alignment with said plurality of color-flavor channels in said primary flow area, wherein said plunger-disc effectuates an open-close function between said primary and secondary flow area;
- d. an injection plate having a plurality of groups of orifices, each group corresponding to an air-cream-color output of said secondary flow area;
- e. a tertiary flow area having a plurality of groups of said longitudinal channels, said plurality of groups of channels corresponding to said plurality of groups of orifices of said injection plate, each group further corresponding to a separate color-flavor, air-cream mixture, wherein each of said groups of channels extends into separate blending areas, each of said blending areas comprising a singular channel axially integral with said longitudinal channels and providing the junction thereof, and a conically diverging, increased diameter expansion chamber integral with said singular channel;
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- f. a dispensing nozzle into which the expanded outputs of said expansion chambers are individually fed
- thereby producing a multi-color comestible end-product exhibiting a plurality of homogenously-colored and flavored areas within a single serving.
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