Apparatus for co-distributing confection products
AssigneeNestec S.A.
InventorAlain Daouse
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Abstract
An apparatus for preparing an article of ice confectionery has two tube assemblies which each have a mobile portion positioned coaxially one to the other. Each mobile portion has a distribution channel which extends to a nozzle delivery end configured in a fishtail shape for depositing material, the mobile portions being positioned and configured so that at least a portion of the distribution channels are separated for thermally isolating the channels and so that upon axial rotation of the mobile portions, material deposited from one nozzle is integrated with material deposited from the other nozzle. The mobile portions may be driven for rotation separately, or one mobile portion may be driven and connected with the other mobile portion for driving the rotation of the other mobile portion.
Claims16
An apparatus for preparing an article of ice confectionery comprising:
- a first assembly comprising (i) a rotatable mobile portion which is rotatable about an axis, (ii) a tubular member which defines a channel and (iii) a nozzle configured in a fishtail shape, wherein the tubular member is fixed to and extends from the mobile portion and the nozzle extends from the tubular member for distributing a material from the tubular member channel so that upon rotation of the mobile portion about the axis, the tubular member and nozzle are rotated about the axis;
- a second assembly comprising (i) a rotatable mobile portion which is positioned for rotation about the axis, (ii) a tubular member which defines a channel and (iii) a nozzle configured in a fishtail shape, wherein the second assembly tubular member is fixed to and extends from the second assembly mobile portion, wherein the second assembly nozzle extends from the second assembly tubular member for distributing a material from the second assembly tubular member channel, and wherein the second assembly mobile portion, tubular member and nozzle are positioned (i) so that the second assembly tubular member is disposed laterally from the first assembly tubular member and so that at least a portion of the second assembly tubular member is separated from the first assembly tubular member for thermally isolating the first and second assembly tubular member channels one from the other and (ii) so that the second assembly nozzle is disposed laterally from the first assembly nozzle and (iii) so that upon rotation of the first and second assembly mobile portions about the axis in a same direction, material distributed from the second assembly nozzle is integrated with material distributed from the first assembly nozzle;
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- means connected with the first and second assembly mobile portions for rotating the first and second assembly mobile portions so that the first and second assembly mobile portions are rotated about the axis in the same direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.