Patent ID: 9301537
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: A23G,B01F

Claim Text:
1. A stirrer of a machine for making and dispensing ice cream products, the stirrer comprising: an axis about which the stirrer is rotatable; a plurality of helical scrapers extending around the axis for operating on an inside wall of a cylinder to be scraped, a shaft for rotating the stirrer about the axis and mounting the helical scrapers at a first end of the helical scrapers, wherein each helical scraper comprises a guide and at least one scraping member which is slidably couplable to and uncouplable from the guide, wherein each scraping member includes a plurality of individual scraping blades, each of the individual scraping blades having a fixed angle of incidence (α) relative to an imaginary cylinder immediately surrounding the stirrer and defined by the axis; wherein each helical scraper comprises a plurality of scraping members positioned longitudinally consecutively along the helical scraper; wherein for every pair of consecutive scraping members coupled to the respective guide, the scraping members in the pair are in mutual contact in order to define continuity of material between one scraping member and the other; wherein each scraping member includes a plurality of scraping blades which are longitudinally spaced apart one from another in series along the scraping member.