Apparatus for making ice cream bars

• US 3,327,651 A
• Filed: 08/17/1964
• Issued: 06/27/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Lamont Nielsen Anton
• Original Assignee: Lamont Nielsen Anton
• Inventors: LAMONT NIELSEN ANTON
• Application Number:
  US04/389,971
• Time in Patent Office: 1,044 Days
• US Class Current: 425/236
• CPC Class Codes: A23G 9/04 Production of frozen sweets, e.g. ice-cream
• CPC Class Codes: A23G 9/285 for extruding strips, cutting blocks and manipulating cut blocks

Claims

1. APPARATUS FOR MAKING ICE CREAM BARS COMPRISING A SOURCE OF ICE CREAM, A CONVEYOR, A BAR FORMING MACHINE HAVING A FRAME AND A PLURALITY OF SUBSTANTIALLY IDENTICAL OPEN-ENDED TUBULAR SPLIT MOLDS MOVABLE BETWEEN A RETRACTED POSITION WITH THE OPEN ENDS OF THE MOLDS ALIGNED SYMMETRICALLY ALONG A COMMON AXIS AND AN EXTENDED POSITION OVER SAID CONVEYOR, MEANS FOR RECIPROCATING SAID MOLDS TRANSVERSELY OF SAID COMMON AXIS BETWEEN SAID POSITIONS, AN ICE CREAM SUPPLY PIPE CONNECTED BETWEEN SAID SOURCE AND SAID FRAME FOR FEEDING ICE CREAM TO SAID MOLDS WHEN ALIGNED ALONG SAID COMMON AXIS, VALVE MEANS ON SAID SUPPLY PIPE FOR CONTROLLING SAID FEEDING OF ICE CREAM TO SAID MOLDS, MEANS FOR ACTUATING SAID VALVE MEANS TO PERMIT THE FLOW OF ICE CREAM FROM SAID PIPE TO SAID ALIGNED MOLDS WHILE ALIGNED ALONG SAID COMMON AXIS AND TO BLOCK THE FLOW OF ICE CREAM WHEN SAID MOLDS ARE NOT ALIGNED ALONG SAID COMMON AXIS, EACH MOLD COMPRISING SECTIONS PIVOTALLY CONNECTED TOGETHER FOR OPENING AND CLOSING THE MOLD, MEANS FOR CLOSING EACH MOLD WHEN THE MOLDS ARE ALIGNED ALONG SAID COMMON AXIS, AND MEANS FOR OPENING EACH MOLD WHEN THE MOLDS ARE EXTENDED OVER SAID CONVEYOR.