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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2005
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2002
David Small, San Jose, CA (US);
Scott David Eckerman, Campbell, CA (US);
Leslie Earl Allen, Iii, Riverbank, CA (US);
David Small, San Jose, CA (US);
Scott David Eckerman, Campbell, CA (US);
Leslie Earl Allen, III, Riverbank, CA (US);
Shoot the Moon Products II, LLC, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Abstract
A system, method and apparatus for dispensing chocolate. Solid chocolate is heated to its melting point within a chamber in order to form a liquid chocolate that is viscous and can flow out an opening in a nozzle at one end when pressure is exerted at another end. The chocolate dispenser is portable and has a housing or case that holds a heating chamber and a heater. The heater heats solid chocolate in the heating chamber into liquid chocolate. A nozzle is snapped or screwed into a dispensing end of the dispenser. A plunger has a piston inserted into the heating chamber to apply pressure to liquid chocolate in order for it to flow out of an opening in the nozzle. A children's playset for use with the chocolate dispenser includes a support structure to support the chocolate dispenser over a dispensing area. One embodiment of the playset includes a turn table and a tapper. A cooling tray may be included in the playset to cool the melted chocolate to its solid form.