US 12,336,550 B2
Frozen confection machine
Jason Hugenroth, Baton Rouge, LA (US); Max Louis Lemoine, Baton Rouge, LA (US); and Daniel Ross Stelly, Baton Rouge, LA (US)
Assigned to CREMMJOY INC., Baton Rouge, LA (US)
Appl. No. 17/428,091
Filed by CREMMJOY INC., Baton Rouge, LA (US)
PCT Filed Feb. 4, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/016628
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 3, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/163369, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 13, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/942,467, filed on Dec. 2, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/854,601, filed on May 30, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/801,194, filed on Feb. 5, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0159992 A1, May 26, 2022
Int. Cl. A23G 9/08 (2006.01); A23G 9/22 (2006.01); A23G 9/28 (2006.01); B01F 31/31 (2022.01); B01F 35/90 (2022.01); B01F 101/13 (2022.01)
CPC A23G 9/224 (2013.01) [A23G 9/08 (2013.01); A23G 9/281 (2013.01); B01F 31/312 (2022.01); B01F 35/90 (2022.01); B01F 2035/98 (2022.01); B01F 2101/13 (2022.01)] 53 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus that freezes an associated liquid mixture into an associated product that is at least partially frozen, the apparatus comprising:
at least one flexible wall freeze bag configured to receive an associated mixture therein;
at least one physical element configured to contact and move along an outer surface of the freeze bag wherein the physical element causes the walls of the freeze bag to contact each other in the area of the physical element such that a temporary seal is formed and to agitate the associated mixture in the freeze bag and
the at least one physical element extends between two ends, with a width of the physical element being less than a width of the at least one freeze bag, and such that the agitation includes some of the associated mixture flowing around and beyond at least one end of the at least one physical element;
a cooling element that cools the associated mixture in the freeze bag through the outer surface of the freeze bag from an initially liquid state to an at least partially frozen state;
wherein there are plurality of the at least one physical element each extending between the two ends, and a first of the ends being on a first side of the at least one flexible wall freeze bag, and a second of the ends at a second side of the at least one freeze bag, with the associated mixture flowing around and beyond at least one of the first ends in one of the plurality of physical elements and beyond at least one of the second ends in another of the plurality of physical elements; and
wherein the freeze bag is initially empty when received in the apparatus.