US 12,274,288 B2
Foamed product dispensing system, valve member, and product container
Quintijn Innikel, Wageningen (NL); Mark Robert René Massa, Wageningen (NL); Robert Matheus Adriaan Poets, Wageningen (NL); and Koen Beeckman, Wageningen (NL)
Assigned to FrieslandCampina Nederland B.V, Amersfoort (NL)
Filed by FrieslandCampina Nederland B.V., Amerfoort (NL)
Filed on Aug. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/883,254.
Application 17/883,254 is a continuation of application No. PCT/NL2021/050127, filed on Feb. 26, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20160193 (EP), filed on Feb. 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0033650 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. A23P 30/40 (2016.01); B01F 23/235 (2022.01); B01F 35/42 (2022.01); B01F 35/45 (2022.01); B01F 35/71 (2022.01); B01F 101/07 (2022.01)
CPC A23P 30/40 (2016.08) [B01F 23/235 (2022.01); B01F 35/42 (2022.01); B01F 35/451 (2022.01); B01F 35/71805 (2022.01); B01F 2101/07 (2022.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A foamed product dispensing system, comprising:
(a) a product dispensing machine configured to receive an exchangeable product container;
(b) a product container configured to cooperate with the product dispensing machine after placement in the machine;
wherein the product container is configured to contain a foamable product,
wherein the product container is provided with a product processing unit (CPU) including a frothing device, the CPU having a product entrance for receiving product and a product exit for discharging product,
wherein the CPU is connectable to a gas supply for supplying gas to the product, and
(c) a hermetically sealable wall structure that encloses a container receiving space for receiving the container,
wherein the wall structure includes a product outlet port that is closable by a thermally insulating closure member,
wherein the closure member is movable between a first position and a second position,
wherein, in the first position, the thermally insulating closure member provides a passage for a flow of foamed product from the product exit of the CPU through the product outlet port,
wherein, in the second position, the thermally insulating closure member closes the product outlet port, and
wherein the closure member comprises a product dispensing passage that is located opposite the product outlet port when the closure member is in the first position, wherein in the second position of the closure member, as compared to the first position, the product dispensing passage is arranged at a distance from the product outlet port.