Patent ID: 8402781
Filing Date: 2013-03-26
Classification: A23G

Abstract:
1. A machine for making two different types of frozen product, comprising: a mixing chamber having an outfeed pipe; a main processing circuit for making ice cream, having an infeed end associated with a tank for containing a product to be processed, and an outfeed end associated with the mixing chamber; an auxiliary processing circuit for making a shake, having an infeed end associated with a tank for containing a diluting liquid, and an outfeed end associated with the mixing chamber; a dispenser mechanism for dispensing the ice cream and the shake, positioned at the mixing chamber; and a selection device for selecting the product to be dispensed by moving between an ice cream dispensing condition and a shake dispensing condition; wherein the selection device comprises at least a first and a second nozzle, one of the at least first and second nozzles associated with the ice cream dispensing condition and the other one of the at least first and second nozzles associated with the shake dispensing condition, wherein pivoting movement of the selection device between the ice cream dispensing condition and the shake dispensing condition moves both the at least first and second nozzles alternatively associating the at least first and second nozzles with the mixing chamber in the corresponding dispensing condition and in the ice cream dispensing condition the one of the at least first and second nozzles associated with the ice cream dispensing condition is flowingly connected with the mixing chamber outfeed pipe and the other of the at least first and second nozzles associated with the shake dispensing condition is flowingly disconnected from the mixing chamber outfeed pipe and in the shake dispensing condition the other of the at least first and second nozzles associated with the shake dispensing condition is flowingly connected with the mixing chamber outfeed pipe and the one of the at least first and second nozzles associated with the ice cream dispensing condition is flowingly disconnected from the mixing chamber outfeed pipe.