Patent ID: 8038033

Claim:
A beverage dispenser, comprising: a whipper housing defining a cavity configured for flowing a liquid beverage mixture therethrough; a beverage whipper rotatably disposed within the housing cavity, wherein the beverage whipper comprises a whipper disk having a configuration for whipping a beverage mixture to produce a crema, the configuration being such that the whipper disk defines a transverse radius and includes a front surface and a plurality of forward-facing concave surfaces that divide the front surface into a plurality of front surface sections, the concave surfaces extending radially over more than half the radius and having a circumferential width and a depth, wherein the width is larger than the depth, and wherein the front surface has an area that is at least 4 times the area of the concave surfaces; a motor operably associated with the whipper to spin the whipper disk sufficiently fast to produce a whipped beverage mixture containing a crema; an outlet conduit connected downstream to the housing for dispensing the whipped beverage mixture; and a restrictor associated with the outlet conduit for restricting the flow of the whipped beverage mixture therethrough.