Patent ID: 6938801
Filing Date: 2005-09-06
Classification: B67D

Abstract:
1. A flowable food dispenser for dispensing flowable food product, comprising: a housing having first and second bays; a plurality of cassettes removably receivable within the bays, each cassette configured for receiving a pouch containing the food product; first and second thermal exchange devices associated with the first and second bays, respectively, in heat-exchanging association with the cassettes received therein, wherein the bays have internal walls associable with the cassettes received therein for substantially extensively contacting the respective cassette to conductively transfer heat between the thermal exchange devices to or from the cassette and pouch therein through the bay walls; a temperature control system connected with the thermal exchange devices for controlling the thermal exchange devices independently for independently heating or cooling the cassettes in the bays and the food product disposed therein; and at least one dispensing mechanism associated with the first and second bays for selectively dispensing the food from the pouches that are in the cassettes received in the bays.