System For Manufacturing An Edible Food Product Container
First Claim
1. A system for manufacturing an edible food product container which comprises:
- a bake form made of a bake temperature resin, wherein the resin bake form is shaped as a hollow, right circular cone defined by a vertex, and a base, and an axis, and wherein a portion of the cone at the vertex is removed to form a vent on the bake form and the base of the cone remains open to provide access into the hollow of the bake form, and further wherein a detent is formed along a periphery around the open base;
a conveyor unit for delivering a strip of bread dough to the bake form prior to baking;
a control unit for coordinating the delivery of the strip of bread dough from the conveyor unit to the bake form during winding of the strip of bread dough to shape the food product container;
a conically-shaped mandrel having an outer surface, wherein the mandrel is dimensioned to be coaxially received into the hollow of the bake form to juxtapose the outer surface of the mandrel with an internal surface of the bake form in the hollow of the bake form; and
a mechanism for rotating the mandrel, together with the bake form, while the a strip of bread dough is deposited along a spiral pathway on an external surface of the bake form to prepare the food product container for baking as a conical-shaped food product container, wherein after baking the spirally deposited strip of bread dough is a baked bread conical-shaped food product container.
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Abstract
An automated system and method for manufacturing a cone-shaped food product holder requires the coordinated use of a forming unit, a conveyor unit and a control unit. In their combination, the forming unit rotates a conically-shaped bake form at a constant angular velocity Ω. Simultaneously, the conveyor unit advances a bread dough strip on a conveyor belt at a constant linear velocity v, for deposit of the bread dough strip onto the bake form. In order to account for the conical configuration of the bake form, the actions of the forming unit and the conveyor unit are coordinated by the control unit. Specifically, the control unit moves the conveyor unit with a predetermined rotation relative to the forming unit to form the food product holder on the forming unit for subsequent baking.
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1. A system for manufacturing an edible food product container which comprises:
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a bake form made of a bake temperature resin, wherein the resin bake form is shaped as a hollow, right circular cone defined by a vertex, and a base, and an axis, and wherein a portion of the cone at the vertex is removed to form a vent on the bake form and the base of the cone remains open to provide access into the hollow of the bake form, and further wherein a detent is formed along a periphery around the open base; a conveyor unit for delivering a strip of bread dough to the bake form prior to baking; a control unit for coordinating the delivery of the strip of bread dough from the conveyor unit to the bake form during winding of the strip of bread dough to shape the food product container; a conically-shaped mandrel having an outer surface, wherein the mandrel is dimensioned to be coaxially received into the hollow of the bake form to juxtapose the outer surface of the mandrel with an internal surface of the bake form in the hollow of the bake form; and a mechanism for rotating the mandrel, together with the bake form, while the a strip of bread dough is deposited along a spiral pathway on an external surface of the bake form to prepare the food product container for baking as a conical-shaped food product container, wherein after baking the spirally deposited strip of bread dough is a baked bread conical-shaped food product container. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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