ICE CREAM DISPENSING MACHINE AND CARTRIDGE

• Main Authors: PEHAR, David, VITANTONIO, Marc, KLINK, Richard, STEPHAN, Gary Robert, VELET, Alexander, VYSTRCIL, Robert, SPIRK, John Evan, ERTEL, Jason R, SEBASTIAN, William
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 24.03.2021
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; CHEWING GUM; COCOA; COCOA PRODUCTS, e.g. CHOCOLATE; CONFECTIONERY; CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS,e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES,DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; CONVEYING; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; HUMAN NECESSITIES; ICE-CREAM; PACKAGES; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PREPARATION THEREOF; STORING; SUBSTITUTES FOR COCOA OR COCOA PRODUCTS; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; TRANSPORTING

A machine for dispensing an individual portion of a frozen dessert may include a cartridge cart having walls forming a cavity having a longitudinal central axis and configured to accommodate a cartridge. The cartridge may include a tube having first and second ends, a nozzle disposed at the first end, and a piston disposed between the nozzle and the second end and configured to slidably move along the tube. The individual portion of the frozen dessert may be contained within the tube between the nozzle and the piston. The machine may also include a plunger, a drive source operably coupled to the plunger and configured to drive the plunger along the central axis, and a support configured to support the first end of the cartridge such that actuating the drive source causes the individual portion of frozen dessert to dispense through the nozzle.