Patent ID: 8448567
Filing Date: 2013-05-28
Classification: A23L,B67D

Abstract:
1. A soup preparing and dispensing machine (SPDM) module to batch prepare soup, cold store the soup and dispense the soup in a serving size, the module comprising: a soup container configured to prepare and hold a batch of soup, the container comprising a top opening defined by upper edges of vertical sidewalls, and a bottom extending from the vertical sidewalls to a bottom opening; a thermal pack surrounding the soup container sidewalls and bottom, and configured to cool the prepared batch of soup in the soup container and to refrigerate the prepared batch of soup in the soup container; a soup container agitator and wiper disposed in the soup container configured to stir the contents of the soup container during the preparation, cooling and refrigeration of the soup, wherein the wiper is configured to wipe an inner surface of the vertical sidewalls and the bottom of the soup container; a soup container engine configured to pump a first portion of the prepared soup from the soup container; a soup container engine discharge pipe configured to receive the first portion, the soup container engine discharge pipe disposed within a portion of the thermal pack; and a heating chamber engine comprising an inlet, the heating chamber engine configured to heat a second portion of soup, which is pushed through the inlet by the first portion pumped into the soup container engine discharge pipe, to a serving temperature.