Patent ID: 8505316

Claim:
A direct expansion evaporator for making frozen product from raw material, comprising: a feeding channel having a feeding end and a dispensing end for said raw material feeding through said feeding channel; a heat exchange channel thermally communicating with said feeding channel for guiding refrigerant passing through said heat exchange channel to heat-exchange with said raw material within said feeding channel, wherein said heat exchange channel has a pre-cooling portion formed toward said feeding end of said feeding channel and a freezing portion formed toward said dispensing end to thermally communicate with said feeding channel, wherein said feeding channel is arranged for guiding said raw material to flow from said pre-cooling portion of said heat exchange channel to said freezing portion so as to initially pre-cool said raw material when entering into said feeding end of said feeding channel and to substantially freeze said raw material to form said frozen product before said frozen product is dispensed at said dispensing end of said feeding channel; and an outer guiding duct and an inner guiding duct coaxially enclosed within said outer guiding duct to define said feeding channel within said inner guiding duct and said heat exchange channel between said outer and inner guiding ducts, wherein a helix indention is formed at said outer guiding duct to form said heat exchange channel partitioned by a helix partition, wherein a peak of said helix partition is biased against an outer surrounding wall of said inner guiding duct to conceal said heat exchange channel along said inner guiding duct in a weld-less manner, wherein said helix partition has a V-shaped configuration that a circumferential size of said peak of said helix partition is slightly smaller than a circumferential size of said outer surrounding wall of said inner guiding duct, such that when said inner guiding duct is coaxially received within said outer guiding duct, said peak of said helix partition is slightly elastic-deformed to bias against said outer surrounding wall of said inner guiding duct so as to form said heat exchange channel between said inner and outer guiding ducts.