Method of making soft ice-drink and apparatus of making the same

• US 4,786,002 A
• Filed: 11/09/1987
• Issued: 11/22/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Chubu Industries Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Chubu Industries Incorporated
• Inventors: Ando, Toshio, Mitsubayashi, Yoshihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): JENKINS, ROBERT
• Application Number:
  US07/118,139
• Time in Patent Office: 379 Days
• Field of Search: 291/101 B, 291/DIG. 17, 366/279, 366/205, 366/206, 366/314, 366/347
• US Class Current: 241/101.8
• CPC Class Codes: A23G 2220/20 with a composite structure, e.g. laminated products, coated products, microstructures, e.g. with encapsulated ingredients
• CPC Class Codes: A23G 9/045 of slush-ice, e.g. semi-frozen beverage
• CPC Class Codes: A23G 9/52 Liquid products; Solid products in the form of powders, flakes or granules for making liquid products ; Finished or semi-finished solid products, frozen granules
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 43/042 Mechanically-driven liquid shakers
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 43/046 with tools driven from the bottom side
• CPC Class Codes: F25C 2400/08 for different type of ice
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 241/17 Ice crushers

Abstract

An apparatus of making a soft ice-drink comprises a mixing mechanism including a container containing a liquid material such as syrup and into which shaved ice pieces are discharged, rotary blades, rotatably supported within the container, for mixing together the liquid material and shaved ice pieces and smashing the shaved ice pieces into granules of ice, and a drive motor for rotating the rotary blades at high speeds, and an ice shaving mechanism, disposed on an apparatus bed and above the mixing mechanism, including a shaver casing having a slit to which a shaving blade is exposed and a shaved ice dischage chute opened to above the container, and rotatable blades, provided within the shaver casing, for cooperating with the shaving blade to shave ice blocks charged into the shaver casing.

Claims

1. An apparatus of making a soft ice-drink comprising:

a mixing mechanism including a container containing a liquid material such as syrup and into which shaved ice pieces are discharged, rotary blades, rotatably supported within said container, for mixing together the liquid material and shaved ice pieces and smashing said ice pieces into granules of ice, and a drive motor for rotating said rotary blades at high speeds; and

an ice shaving mechanism, disposed on an apparatus bed and above said mixing mechanism, including a shaver casing having a slit to which a shaving blade is exposed and a shaved ice discharge chute opened to above said container, and rotatable blades, provided within said shaver casing, for cooperating with said shaving blade to shave ice blocks charged into said shaver casing, wherein a soft lid for covering the opening of said container is detachably mounted to a lower end portion of said shaved ice discharge chute of said ice shaving mechanism.

2. A soft ice-drink making apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an ice block reservoir having, at its top, an openable lid and a transparent cylindrical wall with a lower, inner funnel-like wall is detachably mounted on the top of said ice shaving mechanism.

3. A soft ice-drink making apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the upper portion of a rotary shaft carrying said rotary blades of said mixing mechanism extends upwards nearby the opening of said container and has a square form in horizontal crosssection.