Ice cream maker

Claim 1

Apparatus for making a frozen dessert of the ice cream type, said apparatus including a cylindrical vessel having an outer generally cylindrical wall, a horizontally extending bottom wall which is integral with said cylindrical wall and a vertically extending post which extends coaxially with said cylindrical wall and extends upwardly from said bottom wall, said vessel being open ended at its upper end for receiving a liquid mass from which a frozen dessert can be made, said walls and said post being hollow and having therein a chamber in which a refrigerant is provided for freezing said liquid mass, a scraping member for removing said mass from the walls of said vessel as said mass is frozen by the loss of temperature through the shell oF said walls and said post, said scraping member including a scraper for removing ice formed on said post and a scraper for removing ice formed on said cylindrical wall, said scraping member also including a crank shaft which is in turn connected to a hand crank, said hand crank enabling torque to be applied to said scraping member for rotation thereof in said vessel, a cover member which fits over the top of said vessel, said crank shaft extending through an opening provided in said cover, said hand crank being removable from said crank shaft so that said cover can be removed without removing said scraping member, said scraping member further incuding a depending projection which extends from said crank shaft, said post including a recess for receiving said depending projection including facilitate the rotation of said scraping member in said vessel, said projection being journaled in said recess with said post supporting said scraping member.