Container for an Ice Cream Cone and Process for Preparing the Container

• US 20150111711A1
• Filed: 12/13/2012
• Published: 04/23/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Conopco (Unilever PLC)
• Original Assignee: Conopco (Unilever PLC)
• Inventors: Bartkowska, Beata
• Application Number:
  US14/363,162
• Publication Number:
  US 20150111711A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 493/154
• CPC Class Codes: B31B 2100/00 Rigid or semi-rigid containers made by folding single-piece sheets, blanks or webs
• CPC Class Codes: B31B 2100/0022 made from tubular webs or blanks, including by tube or bottom forming operations
• CPC Class Codes: B31B 2110/10 having a cross section of varying size or shape, e.g. conical or pyramidal
• CPC Class Codes: B31B 50/28 around mandrels, e.g. for forming bottoms
• CPC Class Codes: B31B 50/592 using punches or dies
• CPC Class Codes: B31C 7/02 Forming truncated cones
• CPC Class Codes: B31F 1/0077 Shaping by methods analogous to moulding, e.g. deep drawing techniques
• CPC Class Codes: B31F 1/008 Shaping of tube ends, e.g. flanging, belling, closing, rim-rolling or corrugating; Fixing elements to tube ends
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 3/06 essentially conical or frusto-conical

Abstract

A process for the preparation of an ice cream cone sleeve with a rounded tip comprising the steps of: a) providing a forming element (11) having the shape of a round tipped ice cream cone with a cone angle a, and also providing a forming cavity (12) having an internal surface corresponding to the shape of the forming element (11), b) placing a cone sleeve (10) having a cone angle a within the forming cavity (12), c) engaging the forming element (11) within the cone sleeve (10), and d) forcing the forming element (11) and the forming cavity (12) together wherein the cone sleeve has a frustoconical shape and an open tip (10b) and wherein the end of the sleeve (10) protrudes beyond the end of the forming element (11) in step c).

Claims

1. A process for the preparation of an ice cream cone sleeve (1) with a rounded tip (4) comprising the steps of:

a) providing a forming element (11) having the shape of a round tipped ice cream cone with a cone angle a, and also providing a forming cavity (12) having an internal surface corresponding to the shape of the forming element (11),

b) placing a cone sleeve (10) having a cone angle a within the forming cavity (12),

c) engaging the forming element (11) within the cone sleeve (10), and

d) forcing the forming element (11) and the forming cavity (12) together wherein the cone sleeve has a frustoconical shape and an open tip (10b) and wherein the end of the sleeve (10) protrudes beyond the end of the forming element (11) in step c).

2. A process according to claim 1 wherein the tip of the sleeve (10a) protrudes beyond the end of the forming element (11) in step c) by a distance of from 55% to 100% of the length of the arc of the rounded tip of the forming element (11).

7. A process according to claim 1 wherein the tip of the frustoconical cone sleeve (10) is formed from a cone blank having a disc sector shape.

3. (canceled)

4. (canceled)

5. (canceled)

6. (canceled)