Ice cream maker
AssigneeBreville Pty Limited
InventorsBin Geng, Mark Thomas, Eddie Siu, Lochana Subasekara Widanagamage Don
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Abstract
An apparatus for making a frozen dessert. The apparatus including a reservoir located within a chassis for receiving a liquid dessert mixture and a rotatable paddle located within the reservoir. The paddle can have a body coupled to at least one respective scraper element by a living hinge, such that the scraper element has a scraping edge that is radially-outward biased by the living hinge for abuttingly engaging a wall of the reservoir. The reservoir and the axis of rotation can be substantially horizontally directed, with a substantially vertically-orientated lid closing an opening of the reservoir, the lid defining an aperture for receiving the mixture or enabling egress of the frozen dessert.
Claims14
An apparatus for making a frozen dessert, the apparatus including:
- a chassis;
- a reservoir located within the chassis for receiving a liquid dessert mixture to be cooled:
- a rotatable paddle located within the reservoir, the paddle being adapted to rotate about an axis within the reservoir;
- a drive motor for driving rotation of the paddle;
- a control module for controlling the drive motor to rotate the paddle;
- wherein the reservoir and the axis of rotation are horizontally directed;
- and the apparatus further including:
- a lid that closes an opening of the reservoir, the lid defining an aperture for receiving the mixture;
- and wherein the lid rotates with respect to a horizontal axis, such that the aperture can be directed upwardly to a fill configuration for receiving the mixture and directed downwardly to a dispense configuration for enabling egress of the frozen dessert.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.