Stand-alone self-supporting disposable baking containers and methods of manufacture
AssigneeAlcoa Inc.
InventorsMonica Stautner Nichols, Bruce Robbins, G. Douglas Powell, Jennifer Danich O'Flynn
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Abstract
A self-supporting baking mold that includes a base member having a fanciful shape with a perimeter that is more complex than a simple circle and a depending sidewall coupled to said base member. The baking mold is sufficiently rigid to support a quantity of batter without being disposed in a muffin pan or other external supporting structure.
Claims16
A self-supporting baking mold comprising:
- a fancifully shaped base member;
- a depending sidewall coupled to said base member;
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- wherein the base member and sidewall form a semi-rigid structure, wherein the base member and the sidewall comprise metal, and wherein the metal is between 0.00045 and 0.0015 inch thick.
A method of making a self-supporting, fanciful shaped baking mold using a die and a punch, said die having a cavity with a fanciful shaped die base wall and a correspondingly shaped die sidewall, said punch corresponding to the shape of said cavity, said method comprising:
- placing a sheet of aluminum foil in said die, wherein the aluminum foil is between 0.00045 and 0.0015 inch thick, said foil sheet having a shape approximating the shape of the finished self-supporting shaped baking mold;
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- moving said punch into said die cavity thereby deforming said foil sheet, thereby creating a self-supporting baking mold having a fanciful shape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.