Packaging a comestible without conditioning
AssigneeIntercontinental Great Brands LLC
InventorsDeborah Lyzenga, Bharat Jani, Carlo Businelli, Bhairavi Modak
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing a comestible includes providing a comestible mass (22), forming said comestible mass into a comestible structure (26) having a desired shape using a forming station (20), and applying a packaging material (54) to a surface of said comestible structure (26) while said comestible structure remains in contact with a portion of said forming station (20).
Claims19
A method of manufacturing a comestible, the method comprising:
- providing a comestible mass;
- forming said comestible mass into a comestible structure having a desired shape using a forming station, wherein said forming includes compressing said comestible mass into said comestible structure with said desired shape;
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- applying a packaging material to a surface of said comestible structure while said comestible structure remains in contact with a portion of said forming station, wherein said applying said packaging material occurs after said comestible structure is formed into said desired shape.
A system for forming and packaging a comestible along a forming and packaging line, the system comprising:
- a forming station positioned along the forming and packaging line for receiving a comestible and compressing said comestible into a comestible structure having a desired shape;
- a packaging material receivable by the forming and packaging line, said packaging material being positioned in contact with said comestible structure while said comestible structure is in contact with said forming station, wherein said packaging material is positioned in contact with said comestible structure having said desired shape.
A method of manufacturing a comestible, the method comprising:
- providing a comestible mass;
- forming said comestible mass into a comestible structure having a desired shape via a forming station, wherein said forming includes compressing said comestible mass into said comestible structure with said desired shape;
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- packaging said comestible structure in a packaging material, wherein said packaging said comestible structure comprises at least one of continuously providing said comestible structure from a surface of a movable component of said forming station directly to a first packaging material and continuously providing a second packaging material directly to said forming station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.