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US 8,939,390 B2Granted
Food based homogenizer
AssigneeHealthy Foods, LLC
InventorsBrian Louis Machovina, Robert Johnson, Robert Schmidt, Winston Breeden, III, Douglas Edward Whitner, Eileen McHale
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Abstract
A food homogenizer is provided, including a base with a driving motor and a homogenizer assembly removably coupled to the base. The homogenizer assembly includes a homogenizing chamber, an inlet chute, and an exit spout. A shredder is disposed within the homogenizing chamber and is driven by the driving motor to homogenize food ingredients into a soft texture with a similar consistency as ice cream or sherbet.
Claims18
A food homogenizer including:
- a base comprising a driving motor with a drive shaft;
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- a homogenizer assembly including:
- a homogenizing chamber having a conic shape portion with a conical inner surface against which food is homogenized;
- a shredder disposed within the conic shape portion of the homogenizing chamber and driven by the driving motor for rotational movement about an axis within the conic shape portion of the homogenizing chamber, the shredder having a portion with a conic shape extending from a conic portion base of the shredder to a conic portion vertex of the shredder distal from the conic portion base of the shredder, with the taper of the conic shape extending toward the vertex defining a conical surface of the conic portion of the shredder, with the taper defining the conic surface of the conic portion of the shredder having a smaller diameter about the vertex congruent with the conical inner surface of the conic shape portion of the homogenizing chamber and with the conical surface of the conic portion of the shredder being continuous so as to maintain food being homogenized between the conical inner surface of the conic shape portion of the homogenizing chamber and the conical surface of the conic portion of the shredder without entering into the shredder;
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- an exit spout located at the conic shape portion of the homogenizing chamber and in direct fluid communication with the conic shape portion of the homogenizing chamber and extending transverse to the rotational axis of the shredder to permit direct discharge of homogenized food from the conic shape portion of the homogenizing chamber that is between the conical inner surface of the conic shape portion of the homogenizing chamber and the conical surface of the conic portion of the shredder to an outside environment as the shredder rotationally moves within the conic shape portion of the homogenizing chamber, and the exit spout is the only exit spout in direct fluid communication within the conic shape portion of the homogenizing chamber.
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