Patent ID: 7698899

Claim:
A beverage forming apparatus comprising: a container to contain a beverage; a cooling medium to cool said beverage to a predetermined temperature; a detaching device to scrape frozen particles of said beverage from an inner surface of said container; and a motor to provide relative motion between said container and detaching device, wherein the detaching device is to touch the inner surface of said container, in a rotating motion, in order to scrape the frozen particles of said beverage from said inner surface; wherein the beverage having the frozen particles is routed in a substantially circular continuous motion to: (a) a continuously-operating non-bursting defrosting unit to continuously defrost the frozen particles passing through the defrosting unit, in order to restore the beverage to its original texture; and then to (b) said cooling medium to cool the beverage and to form said frozen particles of said beverage; and then repeating step (a) and step (b) in said substantially circular continuous motion; wherein, upon dispensing of said beverage through a tap, said beverage having the frozen particles is routed to said tap in a route which passes at said cooling medium and avoids said defrosting unit.