US 11,986,128 B2
Device for the automatic preparation of a food product and method of offering and/or selling such a food product
Pieter Delbaere, Deurle (BE)
Assigned to Crop's Fruit, Ooigem (BE)
Appl. No. 16/955,749
Filed by CROP'S FRUIT, Ooigem (BE)
PCT Filed Dec. 18, 2018, PCT No. PCT/IB2018/060225
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 18, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/123229, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 27, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2017/5959 (BE), filed on Dec. 19, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0007556 A1, Jan. 14, 2021
Int. Cl. A47J 43/042 (2006.01); A47J 43/07 (2006.01)
CPC A47J 43/042 (2013.01) [A47J 43/0716 (2013.01); A47J 43/0727 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Device for the automatic preparation of a food product, which preparation comprises the mixing of solid ingredients, said device configured to make the prepared food product available to a user in a refreshment receptacle, said device comprising a mixture receptacle, a mixing device to mix the ingredients in the mixture receptacle and a drive device configured to tilt the mixture receptacle automatically from an upright position into a first pouring position after the ingredients have been mixed, in order to allow the mixed ingredients to drop from the mixture receptacle into the refreshment receptacle,
wherein the mixture receptacle is rotatable about a rotary shaft which is movable along a first guide track by the drive device, in that the mixture receptacle comprises a guide element which is configured to be moved along a second guide track, wherein a movement of the rotary shaft according to the first movement path causes a movement of the guide element along the second movement path and moves the mixture receptacle from the upright position into the first pouring position.