# US 2014/0170255 A1 · Cutting or embossing tool for frozen confectionery products

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- Number: US 2014/0170255 A1
- Document ID: US20140170255A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 14/234,324
- Filed: 2012-07-09
- Published: 2014-06-19
- Earliest claimed: 2011-07-22
- Inventors: Thomas Aloisius Valentinus Amend; Visit Sridama; Changpu Ma
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140170255A1

## CPC

- A23G 9/28: for portioning or dispensing
- A23G 1/203: {Devices for cutting or modelling of a section or plate; Embossing; Punching, e.g. stamping-tool}
- A23G 9/26: for producing frozen sweets on sticks
- A23G 9/285: {for extruding strips, cutting blocks and manipulating cut blocks}
- A23P 20/10: Coating with edible coatings, e.g. with oils or fats
- A23P 20/18: by spray-coating, fluidised-bed coating or coating by casting (combined with breading A23P20/12)
- B26D 1/11: with a plurality of cutting members
- B26D 3/08: Making a superficial cut in the surface of the work without removal of material, e.g. scoring, incising
- B26D 2001/0033: {assembled from multiple blades}
- B26D 2001/006: {the cutting blade having a special shape, e.g. a special outline, serrations}
- A23G: COCOA; COCOA PRODUCTS, e.g. CHOCOLATE; SUBSTITUTES FOR COCOA OR COCOA PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; CHEWING GUM; ICE-CREAM; PREPARATION THEREOF
- A23P: SHAPING OR WORKING OF FOODSTUFFS, NOT FULLY COVERED BY A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS
- B26D: CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING (for growing crops or plants A01D, A01G; for fodder or straw A01F; for bulk butter A01J; for dough A21C; slaughtering A22B; for tobacco, cigars or cigarettes A24; marking-out, perforating or making buttonholes A41H25/00; manufacturing footwear A43D; brushmaking A46D; surgery A61B; disintegrating, mincing or shredding in general B02C; cutting wire, making pins or nails B21F, B21G; of the kind used formetal B23; cutting by abrasive fluid jets B24C5/02; hand-held cutting tools B26B; perforating, cutting-out, stamping-out or punching, or severing by means other than cutting B26F; for wood B27; for stone B28D; working of plastics or substances in a plastic state B29; making boxes, cartons, envelopes or bags, of paper or similarly worked materials, e.g. metal foil, B31B; article or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices B65H35/00; for leather or upholstery B68, C14B; for glass C03B; making matches C06F; for peat C10F; for sugar C13B45/00; for textile materials D06H; civil engineering, building, mining, see Section E; for light guides G02B6/25; cutting processed photographic material G03D15/04)

## Abstract

The present invention relates to a cutting or embossing tool for frozen confectionery products comprising at least two elements, each element comprising a void with an inner contour corresponding to the outer contour of the product to be cut or embossed. At least one of the elements comprises at least one knife or embosser with a blade or an embossing surface extending along the inner contour of the void. The tool can be used to cut lines or a line pattern shape into the surface of a frozen confectionery product, in particular in coating.

## Claims

### Claim 1

Cutting or embossing tool for frozen confectionery products comprising at least two elements, each element comprising a void with an inner contour corresponding to the outer contour of the product to be cut or embossed, and at least one of the elements comprising at least one knife or embosser with a blade or an embossing surface extending along the inner contour of the void.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

Cutting or embossing tool according to claim 1, wherein each element comprises a set of knives extending in parallel along the inner contour of the void, and wherein the sets of knives of the at least two elements form together a cutting line extending spirally over a surface of the frozen confectionery product.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

Cutting or embossing tool according to claim 1, wherein at least one element comprises at least one knife defining a cutting line forming a window-like cut-out.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

Cutting or embossing tool according to claim 1, wherein each element comprises two sets of parallel knives with a first set of knives extending substantially perpendicularly to a second set of knives, so that a grid of cutting lines extending over the surface of the product is formed.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

Cutting or embossing tool according to claim 1, at least one element comprises embossers with an embossing surface forming a decorative shape.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

Cutting or embossing tool according to claim 1, comprising an insert holding the product during cutting and during removal of the knife.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

Cutting or embossing tool according to claim 1, wherein the at least two elements comprises two halves.