A CONTAINER FOR ICE CREAM

• US 3,752,364 A
• Filed: 01/21/1971
• Issued: 08/14/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Robert D.E. Vries
• Original Assignee: Robert D.E. Vries
• Inventors: De Vries, Robert
• Primary Examiner(s): Reeves, Robert B.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bartuska, Francis J.
• Application Number:
  US05/108,261
• Time in Patent Office: 936 Days
• Field of Search: 222/131,183,229,242,386-393,228,234,233,235,326,327,246,80 259/47,113
• US Class Current: 222/131
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 19/183 by applying external pressure, i.e. by pumping or squeezing
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 41/0072 Double walled vessels comprising a single insulating layer between inner and outer walls
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 43/282 Spoons for serving ice-cream
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/0005 Containers or packages provided with a piston or with a movable bottom or partition having approximately the same section as the container B65D83/0072 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/0011 moved by a screw-shaft

Abstract

A container for insulating, transporting and also dispensing ice cream, comprising an insulated cylindrical casing with end closures and a plunger to exert an urging pressure for the dispensing of the ice cream.

Claims

1. A container adapted for dispensing ice cream, comprising a cylindrical casing, and a plunger which is movable therein in order to dispense the ice cream from the container, characterized by the container (1) comprising an insulated casing (3) provided with a dispensing nozzle (5) at one end, and a with the dispensing plunger (12) having a screw-threaded plunger rod (8) which is movable in a cover (4) at the opposite end of the casing, said plunger being provided with a, sharp edged helical spiral attached thereto to rotate therewith as a leader (15) said spiral having sharp edges along a portion thereof to be moved to cut and soften the ice cream before dispensing it through the nozzle (5).