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US 5,394,911 AGranted
Automatic dispenser for doughy food products
AssigneeFadis S.p.A.
InventorCorrado Zizola
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Abstract
An automatic dispenser for doughy food products, particularly for shop windows displaying ice cream products to be dispensed. The dispenser includes a taking unit which is movable with respect to ice cream containers present in the shop window. The taking unit dispenses a desired portion of ice cream and organizes the sorting, taking and dispensing of the desired portion.
Claims46
An automatic dispenser, for doughy food products contained in at least one vessel, comprising:
- a taking unit which is movable with respect to said vessel having means for taking away a desired portion of said doughy food product from said at least one vessel and means for dispensing said desired portion of said doughy food product, said taking unit further comprises at least one hollow shaped head mounted on a structure movable in three orthogonal directions with respect to said vessel, said at least one hollow shaped head has an open end facing said vessel and a closed opposite end to allow for said desired portion to be taken away;
- and means for removal of said desired portion of doughy food product from said head,
- wherein said head has a quadrangular base having an upper and lower part and said upper part of said base is connected to a substantially hemispheric portion.
An automatic dispenser, for doughy food products contained in at least one vessel, comprising:
- a taking unit which is movable with respect to said vessel having means for taking away a desired portion of said doughy food product from said at least one vessel and means for dispensing said desired portion of said doughy food product, said taking unit further comprises at least one hollow shaped head mounted on a structure movable in three orthogonal directions with respect to said vessel, said at least one hollow shaped head has an open end facing said vessel and a closed opposite end to allow for said desired portion to be taken away;
- and means for removal of said desired portion of doughy food product from said head, wherein said head of said taking unit has an upper section shape of a hemispheric bowl and a lower section shape of a parallelepipedic square without a base, said taking unit further comprises a hemispheric bowl housed in said upper section of said head and axially movable with respect to said head, and a rotating curved blade housed inside said bowl.
An automatic dispenser, for doughy food products contained in at least one vessel, comprising:
- a taking unit which is movable with respect to said vessel having means for taking away a desired portion said doughy food product from said at least one vessel and means for dispensing said desired portion of said doughy food product, said taking unit further comprises at least one hollow shaped head mounted on a structure movable in three orthogonal directions with respect to said vessel, said at least one hollow shaped head has an open end facing said vessel and a closed opposite end to allow for said desired portion to be taken away;
- and means for removal of said desired portion of doughy food product from said head, wherein said head of said taking unit has an upper section shape of a cylinder and a lower section shape of a parallelepipedic square without base, said taking unit further comprises a discoidal ejector houser in said upper section and virtually movable with respect to said head and a rotating curved blade housed inside said ejector.
An automatic dispenser, for doughy food products contained in at least one vessel, comprising:
- a taking unit which is movable with respect to said vessel having means for taking away a desired portion of said doughy food product from said at least one vessel and means for dispensing said desired portion of said doughy food product, said taking unit further comprises at least one hollow shaped head mounted on a structure movable in three orthogonal directions with respect to said vessel, said at least one hollow shaped head has an open end facing said vessel and a closed opposite end to allow for said desired portion to be taken away;
- and means for removal of said desired portion of doughy food product from said head, wherein said means for removal of said doughy food product is a rotating blade housed at an upper end of said head of said taking unit.
An automatic dispenser, for doughy food products contained in at least one vessel, comprising:
- a taking unit which is movable with respect to said vessel having means for taking away a desired portion of said doughy food product from said at least one vessel and means for dispensing said desired portion of said doughy food product, said taking unit further comprises at least on hollow shaped head mounted on a structure movable in three orthogonal directions with respect to said vessel, said at least one hollow shaped head has an open end facing said vessel and a closed opposite end to allow for said desired portion to be taken away;
- and means for removal of said desired portion of doughy food product from said head, wherein said vessels are housed in at least two different climate controlled environments.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.