Patent ID: 7438545

Claim:
A cotton candy machine comprising: a rotary shaft connected to a drive source and extending generally in a vertical direction; a pedestal directly secured to the upper end of the rotary shaft; a bottomed rotary pot disposed on the pedestal; a heater disposed directly below the bottomed rotary pot and on the pedestal for heating the bottomed rotary pot; and a bottomed rotary pot fixing means to fix the bottomed rotary pot on the pedestal, wherein the bottomed rotary pot comprises a melting plate and a hat shaped lid member having a candy ball feed opening on its upper face and a flange portion formed around the lower end of the lid member and the bottomed rotary pot fixing means removably holding the flange portion of the bottomed rotary pot and an ejection gap formed between the melting plate and the flange portion of the lid member and candy balls fed into the bottomed rotary pot through the candy ball feed opening are heated to melt on the melting plate by the heater, and the bottomed rotary pot is rotated about the rotary shaft with the pedestal so as to force the melted candy balls by centrifugal force through the ejection gap to the outside to form candy floss.