Abstract: A machine for making ice cream and the like, having a receptacle for receiving liquid ingredients to be used for making the ice cream. A mixing chamber is provided which has an egress from which the ice cream exits. A cooling chamber surrounds the mixing chamber. A rotor centrally mounted in the mixing chamber atomizes and mixes the liquid ingredients and moves it through the mixing chamber to its egress. The rotor has a central post and outwardly projecting blades. A conduit feeds the liquid ingredients from the receptacle to the central post of the rotor. An outlet port on the central post is provided, through which the liquid ingredients are ejected outwardly from the central post for action by the blade means. A pull down screw arrangement helps pull down the liquid ingredients from the receptacle to the mixing chamber.

Abstract: A kitchen appliance for producing pasta or dough products, such as spaghetti, noodles, macaroni and similar cross-sectionally solid or tubular products, or sheets of farinaceous material includes an air blower which directs a stream of air against the respective products as they emerge from the respective orifices of an extrusion die, so that at least the surfaces of such products are dried and their original tackiness is removed, with the result that such products cannot adhere to one another any longer even if they are wetter at the moment of leaving the extrusion orifices than heretofore customary. The air blower is mounted in rotatable relationship with the output shaft of the motor, which powers the mixing and extruding screw accommodated in the housing of the appliance, for rotation thereof relative to the output shaft, and a step-up transmission is provided which rotates the blower at an angular speed considerably exceeding that of the output shaft.

Abstract: An improved disposable foil cooking sheet which is manufactured as a triputite laminate. The laminate comprises a generally flat foraminous impermeable foil upper layer, a central core of dry bibulous material and a generally flat imperforate lower layer. Several disposable foil cooking sheets may be connected in seriation and rolled into a roll.

Abstract: A kitchen appliance for and method of making farinaceous products such as spaghetti, fettucini, macaroni, manicotti, lasagna, pizza crusts, taco shells, bagels, breadsticks and like dough products, use a mixing chamber for receiving the product ingredients, a rotary mixer for mixing the ingredients, a rotary extruder for extruding the mixed ingredients through an extrusion die at a discharge outlet, and a reversible motor drive for jointly turning the rotary mixer and rotary extruder about the same axis of rotation in either circumferential direction. In one direction, only mixing is effected; in the opposite direction, extruding is effected. An arrangement for and method of adjusting the thickness of the extruded farinaceous product are also described.

Abstract: An extrusion die for a pasta-making kitchen appliance includes a first part which has a perforated main portion and a second part which has a support portion received in a recess in the first part and having at least one projecting portion which extends into the associated aperture of the first member. Advantageously, there are as many projecting portions, all supported on the support portions, as there are apertures, and the projecting portions are received, in a one-to-one relationship, in the respective apertures. At least one fin extends radially of each of the projecting portions and contacts the surface bounding the respective aperture to support the projecting portion in such aperture. The support portion may include a plurality of discrete legs, some of which are connected with the support legs of the other pins or projecting portions, while the remaining legs engage the internal surface of a collar portion of the first member which surrounds the recess accepting the support portion.