US1773070A - Apparatus for dispensing ice cream - Google Patents

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@T m|w|||m W. ...um W l' E L 4 j a k J J Patented Aug. l2, 1930 UNITED STATES WILLIAH R. WILLAUEB, F SPABTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA APPARATUS FOB DISPENSING ICE CREAI Application nled Iarch 26, 1928, Serial No. 264,770. Renewed April 5, 1930.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple method and means for reducing the expense and increasing the sanitariness of handling ice-cream in its transmission from the manufacturer through the retail dealer to the retail customer, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the drawing- Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional view of a single ice-cream-can receiving unit in an ice-cream refrigerator Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view through Fig. 1, looking downwardly;

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of an icecream can 0r container removed from the receptacle, packed ready for shipping from the manufacturer to the retailer;

Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a modified form of the ice-cream can or carton;

Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of the lifting device located in the can receptacle in the refrigerator;

Fig. 6 is a detail view showing still another modified form of the can or carton.

25 In the drawing, 10 designates a metal or Y other cylindrical receptacle mounted, as usual, in the refrigerator apparatus in possession of the retailer. The usual cover 11 is employed for this container 10. At one side of this receptacle 10, on the inside, is mounted a vertical screw 12 which is adapted to be turned by a wrench or crank 13 applied to the upper squared end of the screw. On the screw is a nut 14 which is adapted to travel up and down on the screw when the same is turned by means of the wrench 13. This nut is provided with a lateral lug 15 on which is mounted a bottomlate 16, on which rests the ice-cream carton 1 A tube 18 surrounds the screw and is aiixed to the receiving vessel 10, this tube being provided with a vertical slot for the passage of the neck portion of the ear or lug 15. By this means, the bottom-plate 16 may be raised or lowered within the chamber 10.

The carton 17 rests upon the bottom-plate 16 and, as the ice-cream is removed from the top of the carton, after removal of its cover 18, the screw 12 will be operated to raise the carton, to thus render more accessible to the 5 retail Clerk the ice-cream within the carton.

As the level of the ice-cream in the carton lowers, the upper part of the carton may be removed and discarded. To render this removal of the upper end of the carton easy of accomplishment, I score the carton in a suitable manner. In Figs. 1 and 2, I show a series of annular tearing-lines 19 and a series of staggered vertical tearing-1ines 20, so that the retail clerk may readily tear oli:` one section after another as the ice cream is used up and the carton is elevated. I prefer to form these tearing-lines by perforating the wall of the carton, and, for cheapness sake, I prefer to make these cartons of paper-board .which may be suitably paralined or otherwise made more or less water roof. Where these tearing-lines are made y perforations, it is desirable that a linin 2l of paraihne or other paper be used whici will prevent the ice-cream oozing out through the perforations but at the same time may be readily torn olf at the up er end when the sections of the carton bo y are torn off. This waterproof lining is particularly desirable because it is the practice to ll these ice-cream cans at the factory with ice-cream while in a liquid state and to subsequently freeze the mass.

In Fig. 4, I show the lines of perforations running spirall around the paper carton, and in Fi 6 I s ow the sections of the aper carton ra beted together with their )oints closed on the outside by pasted strips of paper 22. These or any other methods may be used to enable the carton to be reduced in height, from time to time as the ice cream is removed from the carton by the retailer, so that, even when the ice-cream is in a large part removed from the container there will still be no necessity on thepart of the dipping clerk to reach down into the carton. My i method and apparatus, therefore, do away with the inconvenience of reaching down into the carton to get the last portion of the icecream remaimng in the can, and a further advantage is that it does away entirely with P5 the use of the usual metal cans which are expensive to make and handle and are otherwise unsanitary and objectionable. The paper carton I propose using is for a single use only, as is obvious, and can be made lnex- 100 pensively enough to be used once and discarded. Y

It will be understood that the manufacturer will deliver the ice-cream in these lar e paper cartons, sa fve llons each, to e retailer and all t e retaller has to do is to place them in the refrigerator container 10 and remove the covers 18; they are then ready for dipping out the ice-cream in the usual manner.

As stated, when enough of the ice-cream has been removed to make it worth while to do so, the top section or upper part of the carton may be torn ofi' and discarded and the ice-cream container may be elevated by operatin the screw 12 to bring the top surface of t e ice-cream to a oint where 1t will be convenient to dip it. t is desirable that the paper bottom 23 shall be fastened to the bottom edge of the carton 17 by means of an annular clip 24, and it is desirable also that the lining that covers the bottom shall have its edge clamped between the anged edge o; the bottom 23 and the body of the carton 1 The scope of the invention is not to be limited by the specific embodiment shown in the drawing, but only by the appended claim.

What I claim as new is:

In an apparatus for dispensing ice-cream, a can container. mounted within the refrigerator and having axed to the interior of its wall a vertical tube provided along its inner side with a vertical slot, a'screw mounted in this slotted tube, a nut working on this screw and having a shank extending through the slot in said tube, and an ice-cream cansu port mounted on said shank.

n testimony whereof I hereunto ax my signature.

WILLIAM R. WILLAUER.

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