Control of frozen beverage dispenser

    公开(公告)号:US12029223B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-09

    申请号:US17428371

    申请日:2020-02-06

    IPC分类号: A23G9/12 A23G9/04 A23G9/22

    摘要: A frozen product dispenser provides a controller to control the rate of freezing and the temperature range of a frozen product. The controller monitors the temperature of the product as well as the torque applied to a scrapper blade. For example, the torque may be measured based on monitoring a current draw of a scrapper motor. The torque may be tracked over time to determine a rate of change in the torque. The rate of freezing may be controlled by setting a maximum rate of increase in the torque. Upon determining that the rate of increase in the monitored torque exceeds the maximum rate, a compressor for the frozen product dispenser may be turned off for a predetermined period of time and/or a hot gas bypass may be opened. A heat transfer medium may decouple thermal contact between an evaporator and the product to control the rate of freezing.

    Stirrer of a machine for making liquid or semi-liquid products and machine comprising the stirrer

    公开(公告)号:US11582985B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-21

    申请号:US16902616

    申请日:2020-06-16

    IPC分类号: A23G9/22 A23G9/12 A23G9/28

    摘要: The invention relates to a stirrer of a machine for making liquid or semi-liquid products, including a rotary body which is housed coaxially in a batch freezer cylinder to rotate about its central axis and which is provided with a plurality of vanes each provided with at least one scraping member for scraping the cylindrical inside wall of the batch freezer cylinder; each scraping member includes a blade and a supporting element for supporting the blade; each blade has, on one side of it, a scraping profile, disposed substantially in contact with the cylindrical inside wall of the batch freezer cylinder and, on the opposite side of it, a coupling profile for coupling it to the respective supporting element and disposed along a longitudinal peripheral edge of the supporting element itself; a longitudinal groove is undercut along the aforementioned edge and the coupling profile is removably shape-fitted therein.