Method of photocopying an image onto an edible web for decorating iced baked goods
AssigneeJack Guttman, Inc.
InventorDouglas R. Stewart
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Abstract
An iced cake (92) is decorated with an edible substrate sheet (100) having a color image (200) reproduced thereon by a plain paper photocopy process. The sheet (100) is passed along a straight, generally unheated copy path (24) through a plain paper, color inkjet photocopy machine (10) to reproduce thereon the color image (200) placed on the photocopy glass (12).
Claims11
A method of reproducing an image onto an edible web for decorating an iced bake good with an image comprising:
- mounting an edible web to a carrier;
- placing the image on a copy glass of a photocopy machine;
- passing the carrier and edible web along a substantially straight copy path in the photocopy machine without substantially heating the edible web;
- and
- reproducing the image on the copy glass onto the edible web with an edible ink as it passes along the copy path.
A method of reproducing an image onto an edible web for decorating an iced baked good with an image comprising:
- placing the image on a copy glass of a photocopy machine;
- passing an edible web along a substantially straight copy path in the photocopy machine without substantially heating the edible web;
- and
- reproducing the image on the copy glass onto the edible web with an edible ink as it passes along the copy path.
A method of decorating an iced baked good with a color image comprising:
- placing the color image on a copy glass of a color inkjet photocopying machine;
- passing an edible web along a substantially straight copy path in the color inkjet photocopy machine without substantially heating the edible web;
- reproducing onto the edible web a reproduction of the color image on the photocopy glass with edible inkjet inks as the edible web passes along the copy;
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- placing the edible web with the reproduction of the color image onto the iced baked good.
A method of reproducing an image onto an edible web for decorating an iced bake good with an image comprising:
- placing the image on a copy glass of a photocopy machine;
- passing an edible web along an elongated, non-tortuous copy path in the photocopy machine without substantially heating the edible web, with no portion of the copy path overlapping another portion thereof and such that the edible web passes along the copy path without following any tortuous bends;
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- reproducing the image on the copy glass onto the edible web with edible ink as it passes along the copy path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.