Patent ID: 8777477
Filing Date: 2014-07-15
Classification: A23G

Abstract:
1. An ice cream maker assembly comprising: an inflatable cushion; a spherically shaped ice cream maker with a spherical jacket snugly disposed within the inflatable cushion; and wherein the inflatable cushion is dodecahedron in shape with a plurality of pentagonal sections, and wherein the pentagonal sections are formed from flexible welded pieces, wherein each welded piece comprises five outer inflatable pentagonal sections attached to a central pentagonal section, and each welded piece is formed from two precut sheets having mirror image profiles that are aligned together and sealed together along edges of the precut sheets to form a single welded piece with an inflatable space between the sheets, and wherein each of the five outer inflatable pentagonal sections and central pentagonal section can be inflated through a valve on one of the pentagonal sections.