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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. 22, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2011
Jimmy I. Frank, Houston, TX (US);
Thomas L. Guy, San Antonio, TX (US);
Kristan L. Dawson, Brookside, TX (US);
Raymond A. Glatt, San Antonio, TX (US);
Richard E. Frankenberger, San Antonio, TX (US);
Carl R. Martin, Burton, TX (US);
Craig Cloud, New Braunfels, TX (US);
Jimmy I. Frank, Houston, TX (US);
Thomas L. Guy, San Antonio, TX (US);
Kristan L. Dawson, Brookside, TX (US);
Raymond A. Glatt, San Antonio, TX (US);
Richard E. Frankenberger, San Antonio, TX (US);
Carl R. Martin, Burton, TX (US);
Craig Cloud, New Braunfels, TX (US);
FBD Partnership, LP, San Antonio, TX (US);
Abstract
A food dispensing machine includes a product chamber with a dispensing valve connected to the product chamber and having an outlet through which a product contained in the product chamber is dispensed. The product chamber has a cleaning solution inlet connectable to a cleaning solution supply source for receiving cleaning solution into the product chamber. The product chamber further has an ingredient inlet alternatively connectable to either an ingredient supply source or the dispensing valve outlet. When the ingredient inlet is connected to the dispensing valve outlet, a re-circulating flow path is created, allowing for complete cleaning and sanitizing of the product flow path.