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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2007
Gianni Zaniboni, Borgonuovo di Sasso Marconi, IT;
Gino Cocchi, Bologna, IT;
Roberto Lazzarini, Reggio Emilia, IT;
Gianni Zaniboni, Borgonuovo di Sasso Marconi, IT;
Gino Cocchi, Bologna, IT;
Roberto Lazzarini, Reggio Emilia, IT;
CARPIGIANI GROUP—ALI S.p.A., , IT;
Abstract
A machine for producing and dispensing liquid or semiliquid food products, includes: a holding vat for a liquid base product; a treatment circuit for treating the liquid base product to obtain a liquid or semiliquid food product; a dispensing mechanism to dispense the food product; one or more actuators acting on the base product, food product and/or parts of the machine; and one or more sensors for detecting one or more operating parameters of the machine. The machine further includes an interfacing unit preferably provided with a control card operatively associated with at least one of the one or more sensors to receive a respective one of the one or more operating parameters and transmit it to a remote processing unit.