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Back in 1903 Emery Thompson, the founder of our company, was working in the basement of a large department store on 14th. street in Manhattan. He ran the ice cream concession in the department store. Back in those days there were no ice cream parlors. You bought your ice cream either at a pharmacy or at a department store. Emery was working long hours making ice cream on an old fashioned rock salt and ice machine – similar to the ones we all owned as we were growing up. He needed to cut down the hours he was spending making the ice cream for the store. Thus the necessity. Emery went back to his home in New Rochelle, New York and in his garage, built the first modern day ice cream making machine – the invention. Emery Thompson’s “new” ice cream machine consisted of a long wooden tank and a vertical freezing cylinder. The tank held salt water (which freezes at a lower temperature than fresh water) and ice. The solution, called brine, was circulated around a vertical freezing chamber, which in turn converted milk, cream, sugar and flavor into ice cream. For his efforts he was awarded a U.S. patent. Over the years the machine progressed from this simple unit to one that was chilled by ammonia. The barrel was also turned horizontally so that the finished ice cream would flow out more easily. The machines continued advancing forward into freon and today, more environmentally propellants. The drive system changed from a motorcycle chain to steel reinforced belts and the materials used became all stainless. But the concept of making old-fashioned ice cream remains the same. Emery Thompson batch freezers are sold in every country in the world in ice cream parlors, hotels, restaurants and large ships. During World War II there was an Emery Thompson on board every aircraft carrier. If a pilot missed the aircraft carrier and had to be rescued, there was a flurry of activity between the other warships to rescue the pilot. They knew that the ship that pulled the pilot “from the drink” would be rewarded with ten gallons of fresh ice cream from the aircraft carrier. I have seen footage of a pilot being transferred in a bosons chair over to the carrier at the same time that the ice cream was being rope delivered over to the destroyer! Our machines are very popular in developing countries. As their economies develop, they want to be like the Americans. They want steak, beer, hard ice cream. Our machines provide the ice cream, Italian Ices, Sherbet, Sorbet, and Artisan Gelato.

Address: Emery Thompson Machine & Supply Co. 15350 Flight Path Dr Brooksville, FL 34604
Telephone: 1+(813)-862-2776
Fax: 1+(352)-796-0720
Website: http://www.emerythompson.com/