APPARATUS FOR BAKING AND ROLLING CONFECTIONARY PRODUCTS

• US 3,792,954 A
• Filed: 09/26/1972
• Issued: 02/19/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sweetheart Cup Company, Inc. (Robert Charles Dart)
• Original Assignee: Albert A. Heyman
• Inventors: Heyman, Albert A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Overholser, J. Spencer
• Assistant Examiner(s): Safran, David S.
• Application Number:
  US05/292,441
• Time in Patent Office: 511 Days
• Field of Search: 425/319,383,391,348S
• US Class Current: 425/391
• CPC Class Codes: A21C 15/025 Apparatus for shaping or moulding baked wafers, e.g. to obtain cones for ice cream

Abstract

Apparatus for baking and molding edible fluid pastry material and rolling it into cones of substantially uniform dimensions with a flat top to facilitate retention of frozen confections such as ice cream, sherbets, and the like and an apex portion in a manner to provide the cone with a reinforced and sealed apex portion. Such apparatus also is made with the ability to provide substantially identical uniformity of the length dimensions of the finished cones for uniformity in stacking and packing the cones.

Claims

1. A flat top uniform cone forming machine with wafer spinner cells and a spinner core, each spinner cell being open at the apex and including a cone tip forming means mounted outside the cell, and means to move said core tip forming means from its position outside the cell to an operating position in the open apex end of the cell whereby said cones when finished are of uniform shape and length, with formed tip portions to seal and inhibit leaking at the tip of products in the cone and to provide uniform stacking height of the finished cones when in nested relation to facilitate uniform packaging.

2. In a machine of the character described in claim 1, wherein said tip forming means comprises a bracket secured to an exterior side of the spinner cell, and an oscillating lever hinged to said bracket, said lever carrying a cone tip forming plunger into an operating position in the apex opening of the cell.

3. In a machine of the class described in claim 2, wherein said plunger is adjustable in the apex of said spinner, cell to form the cone tip and to control the cone length.

4. In a machine of the class described in claim 2, wherein said lever carries a cam follower engagable with cam means, carried by a rotating part of the machine to thereby open and close the apex of the said cell.

5. In a machine of the class described in claim 2, wherein said plunger comprises a threaded gage portion to adjust the same in the end of the lever at the apex of the said cell.

6. A flat top uniform cone making machine, comprising spinner cells driven in a circular path, each cell having an open apex portion and a rotatable cone forming core within the cell for forming baked wafers into a rolled cone, said cell having a cone tip forming means secured to a side of the cell at the open apex portion, said tip forming means comprising a bracket with an end projecting from the side of the cell, a lever hinged to the projecting end of the bracket, a cam follower carried by the lever engageable with programmed cam means carried by a cam support plate in the path of a rotatable part of the machine carrying the said spinner cell to pivot said lever to and from the apex portion of the spinner cell, and a tip forming plunger carried by an end of said lever for engaging in and out of the open apex of said spinner cone as said cam follower on the opposite end of the lever is engaged periodically with said cam means.

7. A machine of the class described in claim 6, wherein said cam means is comprised of a cam to move said lever to a closed position at the apex, the said respective spinner cells and said cam means being programmed to move said lever to an open position away from the apex of said cell to permit removal of any collected debris in the apex portion of the said cell while the machine operation is continued.

8. A machine of the class described in claim 6, wherein said cam of said cam means for closing said apex of each of the said cells includes adjustable means to vary the engagement of said cam with the cam follower carried by the said lever for each of the cells.

9. A machine of the class described in claim 6, wherein said adjustable means for said cam means comprises spaced threaded rod members, a pair of slotted plate means connected at one end to said cam support plate and coupled by suitable means to said rods at the opposite end, and means for manually turning said threaded rod members clockwise or counterclockwise for adjustment of said cam means with respect to said cam follower.

10. A machine of the class described in claim 6, wherein said cam means are mounted on a slotted support plate secured to the frame of the machine and are spaced and programmed to contact the said cam follower carried on an end of said lever as the spinner cells traverse a circular path, whereby one of the cam means moves the lever and closes the end of the cell and the other cam means engages the cam follower to Reverse the movement of the lever to move the lever away from the end of the cell.

11. A machine of the class described in claim 6, wherein said lever of the said bracket includes a set screw plate and a set screw to limit the throw of the lever with respect to the apex of each of the said cells.

12. A machine of the class described in claim 9, wherein said adjustable means for said cam means are positioned on left and right hand sides of the said cam support plate and said means for turning said threaded rod members includes visual means to provide for substantially uniform adjustment of each of said rod members with respect to each other.