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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Stanley O. Jones, Vienna, IL (US);
Curt D. Jones, Brentwood, TN (US);
Assignee:
Dippin' Dots, Inc., Paducah, KY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25C 1/00 ; F25D 1/700 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F25C 1/00 ; F25D 1/700 ;
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a novel method for manufacturing popcorn-shaped frozen product, such as but not limited to ice cream. Unlike prior systems that manufactured small, beaded frozen product, the method of the present invention introduces a much larger (diametrically larger) quantity of liquid composition into the liquid refrigerant. By introducing a sufficiently large quantity of liquid composition into the liquid refrigerant, the freezing processes changes substantially, to give the final product a popcorn shape.