Patent ID: 6145701
Filing Date: 2000-11-14
Classification: A23G

Abstract:
A machine for dispensing a soft-serve product, the machine comprising a freezer barrel, a mix hopper for containing soft-serve mix and being in flow communication with the freezer barrel so that soft-serve mix can flow from the mix hopper into the freezer barrel, a draw spout, a primary flow passage leading from the freezer barrel to the draw spout, means for expelling frozen product from the freezer barrel via the primary flow passage to the draw spout, a solids hopper for containing a flowable solid food product, a plunger for openably closing the primary flow passage and having a secondary flow passage therein, the secondary flow passage leading from the solids hopper into the primary flow passage, and feed means for feeding said solid food product from the solids hopper via the secondary flow passage into the flow stream of soft-serve product as it passes through said primary flow passage.