Machine for making both ice creams and shake

A machine for making two different types of frozen product, comprising:

• a mixing chamber having an outfeed pipe;
• a main processing circuit for making ice cream, having an infeed end associated with a tank for containing a product to be processed, and an outfeed end associated with the mixing chamber;
• an auxiliary processing circuit for making a shake, having an infeed end associated with a tank for containing a diluting liquid, and an outfeed end associated with the mixing chamber;
• a dispenser mechanism for dispensing the ice cream and the shake, positioned at the mixing chamber;
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• a selection device for selecting the product to be dispensed by moving between an ice cream dispensing condition and a shake dispensing condition;
• wherein the selection device comprises at least a first nozzle and a second nozzle, placed below the mixing chamber outfeed pipe, one of the at least first and second nozzles associated with the ice cream dispensing condition and the other one of the at least first and second nozzles associated with the shake dispensing condition, wherein movement of the selection device between the ice cream dispensing condition and the shake dispensing condition moves both the at least first and second nozzles alternatively associating the first and second nozzles with the mixing chamber in the corresponding dispensing condition and in the ice cream dispensing condition the one of the at least first and second nozzles associated with the ice cream dispensing condition is flowingly connected with the mixing chamber outfeed pipe and the other of the at least first and second nozzles associated with the shake dispensing condition is flowingly disconnected from the mixing chamber outfeed pipe and in the shake dispensing condition the other of the at least first and second nozzles associated with the shake dispensing condition is flowingly connected with the mixing chamber outfeed pipe and the one of the at least first and second nozzles associated with the ice cream dispensing condition is flowingly disconnected from the mixing chamber outfeed pipe.

A machine for making two different types of frozen product, comprising:

• a mixing chamber having an outfeed pipe;
• a main processing circuit for making ice cream, having an infeed end associated with a tank for containing a product to be processed, and an outfeed end associated with the mixing chamber;
• an auxiliary processing circuit for making a shake, having an infeed end associated with a tank for containing a diluting liquid, and an outfeed end associated with the mixing chamber;
• a dispenser mechanism for dispensing the ice cream and the shake, positioned at the mixing chamber;
• and
• a selection device for selecting the product to be dispensed by pivoting and switching the selection device between an ice cream dispensing condition and a shake dispensing condition;
• wherein the selection device comprises at least a first and a second nozzle, the first nozzle associated with the ice cream dispensing condition and the second nozzle associated with the shake dispensing condition, wherein pivoting movement of the selection device between the ice cream dispensing condition and the shake dispensing condition moves both the first and second nozzles alternatively associating the first and second nozzles with the mixing chamber in the corresponding dispensing condition and in the ice cream dispensing condition the first nozzle associated with the ice cream dispensing condition is flowingly connected with the mixing chamber outfeed pipe and the second nozzle associated with the shake dispensing condition is flowingly disconnected from the mixing chamber outfeed pipe and in the shake dispensing condition the second nozzle associated with the shake dispensing condition is flowingly connected with the mixing chamber outfeed pipe and the first nozzle associated with the ice cream dispensing condition is flowingly disconnected from the mixing chamber outfeed pipe;
• the first nozzle comprising an opening for the passage of the ice cream which is larger than the opening for the passage of the shake forming the second nozzle.

A machine for making two different types of frozen product, comprising:

• a mixing chamber having an outfeed pipe;
• a main processing circuit for making ice cream, having an infeed end associated with a tank for containing a product to be processed, and an outfeed end associated with the mixing chamber;
• an auxiliary processing circuit for making a shake, having an infeed end associated with a tank for containing a diluting liquid, and an outfeed end associated with the mixing chamber;
• a dispenser mechanism for dispensing the ice cream and the shake, positioned at the mixing chamber;
• and
• a selection device for selecting the product to be dispensed by switching the selection device between an ice cream dispensing condition and a shake dispensing condition;
• wherein the selection device comprises at least one plate associated downstream of and placed below the mixing chamber outfeed pipe;
• the plate including a first hole corresponding to a first nozzle for passage of the product and a second hole corresponding to a second nozzle for passage of the product, one of the nozzles associated with the ice cream dispensing condition and another of the nozzles associated with the shake dispensing condition, each of which is alternatively associated with the mixing chamber outfeed pipe in the corresponding dispensing condition;
• wherein the plate is pivotable and switchable to simultaneously move both the first and second nozzles between a first position corresponding to the ice cream dispensing condition in which the first nozzle is in fluid communication with the mixing chamber outfeed pipe and the second nozzle is flowingly disconnected from the mixing chamber outfeed pipe, and a second position corresponding to the shake dispensing condition in which the second nozzle is in fluid communication with the mixing chamber outfeed pipe and the first nozzle is flowingly disconnected from the mixing chamber outfeed pipe.