Title:
COMPACT COUNTERTOP FREEZER AND SOFT-SERVE METHOD
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2004079280
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
A miniature, stand-alone, countertop freezer primarily for domestic use, and a soft-serve dispensing method, that allows extended storage of a food product at an optimum soft-serve sub-freezing temperature prior to dispensing. Its housing has a compact configuration for freezer-like insulated food product storage. However, when soft-serve dispensing is desired, the housing is vertically extended to expose a decorator pattern cap. A press plate in the upper portion of the housing is activated, either manually or otherwise, to push downwardly on the food product container, and thus force the food product through the pattern cap below the food product container and into a receiving vessel. The pattern cap may be a part of the dispenser or a part of the food product container. Although not limited thereto, use is contemplated with ice cream, sherbet, yogurt, sorbet, and other frozen dessert products. Alternative power supply sources are contemplated.
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Inventors:
PAHL RICHARD CHARLES (US)
Application Number:
PCT/US2004/000251
Publication Date:
December 29, 2004
Filing Date:
January 07, 2004
Export Citation:
Assignee:
PAHL RICHARD CHARLES (US)
International Classes:
A23G9/28; A23G9/30; (IPC1-7): B67D5/62
Foreign References:
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| US2889949A | 1959-06-09 | |||
| US5232027A | 1993-08-03 | |||
| US6264066B1 | 2001-07-24 |
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