Mold table for food products and method of making said table
AssigneeArmor Inox
InventorClaude Dreano
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Abstract
The present invention concerns a mold table for food products comprising at least one longitudinal conduit that can be closed by a cover. Each conduit has a variable cross section that defines at least one cavity that forms a mold for the food products.
Claims26
A mold table for food products comprising at least one longitudinal conduit that can be closed by a cover;
- said at least one conduit having a variable cross section so as to define at least one cavity that forms a mold for said food products;
- the variable cross section being such that the cavity has different cross sectional areas along the length of the cavity, said at least one conduit including, at the level of each of its edges, a release toward the outside, the conduit and release being shaped and dimensioned to form a recess along the side walls of the conduit and in which said cover can be inserted in a set manner.
In combination,
- plural molded food products;
- a mold table in which the plural molded food products are located,
- the mold table including an elongated sheet metal conduit having:
- (a) a longitudinal axis;
- (b) a plurality of cavities in which the molded food products are located, the plurality of cavities being disposed along the longitudinal axis, each of the cavities having cross sections with areas having differing dimensions within a particular cavity, the cross sections being at right angles to the longitudinal axis;
- (c) recesses in a wall of the conduit at one end of the cavities, the recesses being between adjacent cavities;
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- (d) releases for the food products, the releases being connected to the recesses by bends that extend outwardly from the cross sections, the releases being shaped to follow undulations of the walls of the conduit and stiffen the conduit walls, the releases including:
- (i) a wall having one end connected to the conduit at the recesses, the wall extending approximately at right angles to the longitudinal axis in a plane approximately at right angles to the direction of the bends;
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- (ii) a flap at a second end of the wall of the release, the flap extending away from the cavities;
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- (e) a separate cover for each of the cavities, the covers having walls with ends that fit into the releases in such a manner that ends of the walls of the cover are inside the walls of the releases and edges of the ends of the walls of the cover are proximate the bends.
In combination, a mold table, a food product in the mold table, a cover on the mold table, the mold table having at least one longitudinal conduit that is closed by the cover, said at least one conduit having a variable cross section so as to define at least one cavity that forms a mold in which the said food product is located;
- the variable cross section being such that the cavity has different cross sectional areas along the length of the cavity;
- said at least one conduit including, at the level of each of its edges, a release toward the outside;
- the conduit and release being shaped and dimensioned to form a recess along the side walls of the conduit and in which said cover is inserted in a set manner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.