Patent ID: 9326530
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: A23G

Claim Text:
1. Machine for producing and dispensing products including ice cream, frozen beverages or granita, comprising a product container which is provided with a tap for dispensing product and into which there projects, from a rear wall, a cylindrically-shaped evaporator of a refrigerating circuit of the machine for cooling the product container with a substantially horizontal axis wherein the product is dispensed from the tap in a direction perpendicular to the horizontal axis of the cylindrically-shaped evaporator, a mixer element of a propeller type for stirring the product present around the cylindrically-shaped evaporator so as to rotate coaxially with the axis of the cylindrically-shaped evaporator by means of a motor unit, the motor unit being arranged outside the container and adapted to rotate the mixer element by means of a drive shaft which passes along the axis of the cylindrically-shaped evaporator and which is connected to the mixer element at one end of the cylindrically-shaped evaporator which is opposite to the said rear wall, wherein the motor unit is at least partially housed inside the cylindrically-shaped evaporator through the said rear wall, the motor unit comprising a motor and a gear reduction unit, the gear reduction unit connected in front of the motor and including an output which is connected coaxially to said drive shaft, the cylindrically-shaped evaporator comprising a space defined therein, the gear reduction unit being at least partially housed inside the space inside the cylindrically-shaped evaporator, and the space inside the cylindrically-shaped evaporator which receives at least partially the gear reduction unit is sealed from the inside of the product container.