Ice cream cone with jacket attached and method for producing same
AssigneeMaryland Cup Corporation
InventorDavid Weinstein
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Abstract
An ice cream cone product is provided having a sanitary paper jacket adhered thereto which is sufficiently adherent for shipping, handling and vending but which is selectively removable without leaving jacket remnants on the cone or cone remnants on the jacket. A jacket is telescopically juxtaposed over the cone after the jacket interior is applied with vaporized mixture of water and an adhesion-reducing agent. A conveyor for the cones, a timed dispenser and injector for placing the jackets alternately on the same conveyor with the cones, a device to combine each jacket with a cone and an accumulator for the jacketed cone product comprises the apparatus to practice the method.
Claims15
A method of adhering a sanitary jacket to a conformally shaped ice cream cone comprising the steps of:
- interposing a mixture of water and an adhesion-reducing agent between said sanitary jacket and said ice cream cone;
- causing said sanitary jacket and said ice cream cone to be brought together in juxtaposition with said mixture of water and adhesion-reducing agent being dispersed therebetween;
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- drying the combined cone and sanitary jacket;
- said adhesion-reducing agent comprising a food grade, non-toxic and hydrophilic material selected from the group consisting of an alcohol, a natural sugar syrup, a surfactant, and mixtures thereof, which is mixed with water in an amount sufficient to cause said adhesion while at the same time permitting separation of the jacket from the cone with substantially no jacket or cone tear.
A method of adhering sanitary jackets onto each of a succession of cones of a conformal shape with said jackets comprising:
- conveying a plurality of cones, apex first, along a conveyor at regularly spaced intervals;
- storing a vertical stack of said paper jackets above said conveyor and the conveyed path of said cones;
- dispensing said jackets one at a time from said stack to a work holding means and injecting a vaporized mixture of about 85% propylene glycol and about 15% water into the interior thereof;
- dispensing said vapor injected jackets onto said conveyor intermediate said cones and at substantially equal spaced intervals with said cones;
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- inserting a trailing cone into and in position with a leading jacket while the latter is still moist from the vapor injection.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.