US 8,574,646 B2Granted

Package for molded food product

AssigneeLion Rock Licensing Corp.

InventorsDavid Smith, David Riemersma, Mark Peters, Kevin Keough

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Abstract

A solid food product is molded in a mold cavity and is thereafter packaged in the mold cavity. The mold cavity is formed in a sheet and includes a side wall which extends from the sheet and a bottom wall which includes an inverting portion which extends from said side wall and a central portion. The central potion of the bottom wall includes a plurality of ridges which form a decorative design. A liquid food product is introduced into the mold cavity and allowed to solidify to form a molded solid food product. The central portion of the bottom wall is thereafter pushed into the mold cavity to invert said inverting potion and to push the molded food product away from the central portion of the bottom wall. The molded food product includes ridges which correspond to the ridges in the bottom wall of the mold cavity. A lid is attached to the sheet to enclose and package the molded food product within the mold cavity.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A packaged food product comprising:

a generally flat flange,
a pocket extending from said flange, said pocket including a side wall portion which extends from said flange, an inverted wall portion which extends inwardly from the side wall portion and toward said flange, and a central wall portion which extends from said inverted wall portion, said central wall portion having a plurality of ridges which form a design in said central wall portion,
a solid food product within said pocket, said food product having a surface with a plurality of ridges which correspond to the ridges in said central wall portion and which form a design on the solid food product, and
a lid attached to said flange for enclosing said food product in said pocket to form the packaged food product,
wherein the inverted wall portion is movable from a non-inverted to an inverted position, said movement being used to release the ridges of the food product from the ridges in the central wall portion, and the pocket and solid food product being sized such that the solid food product lies below the generally flat flange when the inverted wall portion is in the inverted position and the solid food item resides within the pocket.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/899,896Filed 7 Oct 2010 · division
Priority: 21 Aug 2007
Published: US 2011/0020505 A127 Jan 2011
Granted: 5 Nov 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

A23P 30/10
Shaping or working of foodstuffs characterised by the process or apparatus: moulding
A23G 1/0086
Characterised by the material of the moulds: moulding in plastic or elastomeric material, or plastic or elastomer coated material
A23G 1/22
Apparatus for moulding, cutting or dispensing chocolate: chocolate moulds
A23G 3/0034
Moulds processing: moulding in plastic or elastomeric material, or plastic or elastomer coated material

Family

Application11/894,332Parent of this division · filed 21 Aug 2007
US 2011/0020505 A1Pre-grant publication · published 27 Jan 2011
US 7,829,131 B2Parent of this division
US 2009/0053370 A1Published application
US 8,574,646 B2This patent

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