Ice cream cone with jacket attached and method for producing same

• US 4,289,791 A
• Filed: 05/04/1979
• Issued: 09/15/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sweethart Cup Company Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Maryland Cup Corporation
• Inventors: Weinstein, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Hunter, Jeanette M.
• Application Number:
  US06/036,227
• Time in Patent Office: 865 Days
• Field of Search: 426/139, 426/101, 426/104, 426/130, 426/565-567, 426/396, 426/410, 426/415, 53/580, 53/583, 53/584, 222/1
• US Class Current: 426/139
• CPC Class Codes: A21C 15/00 Apparatus for handling baked articles
• CPC Class Codes: A23G 9/288 for finishing or filling ice-cream cones or other edible containers; Manipulating methods therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 11/00 Wrapping, e.g. partially or wholly enclosing, articles or quantities of material, in strips, sheets or blanks, of flexible material bundling articles by applying narrow strips or bands of flexible material B65B13/00
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 57/003 for horizontally placed articles, i.e. for stacked or nested articles

Abstract

An ice cream cone product is provided having a sanitary paper jacket adhered thereto which is sufficiently adherent for shipping, handling and vending but which is selectively removable without leaving jacket remnants on the cone or cone remnants on the jacket. A jacket is telescopically juxtaposed over the cone after the jacket interior is applied with vaporized mixture of water and an adhesion-reducing agent. A conveyor for the cones, a timed dispenser and injector for placing the jackets alternately on the same conveyor with the cones, a device to combine each jacket with a cone and an accumulator for the jacketed cone product comprises the apparatus to practice the method.

Claims

1. A method of adhering a sanitary jacket to a conformally shaped ice cream cone comprising the steps of:

interposing a mixture of water and an adhesion-reducing agent between said sanitary jacket and said ice cream cone;

causing said sanitary jacket and said ice cream cone to be brought together in juxtaposition with said mixture of water and adhesion-reducing agent being dispersed therebetween; and

drying the combined cone and sanitary jacket;

said adhesion-reducing agent comprising a food grade, non-toxic and hydrophilic material selected from the group consisting of an alcohol, a natural sugar syrup, a surfactant, and mixtures thereof, which is mixed with water in an amount sufficient to cause said adhesion while at the same time permitting separation of the jacket from the cone with substantially no jacket or cone tear.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the mixture of water and the adhesion-reducing agent is interposed between said sanitary jacket and said cone as a vapor.

3. The method of claims 1 and 2, wherein the mixture of water and an adhesion-reducing agent is interposed between said sanitary jacket and said cone by the application of said mixture to the internal surface of the sanitary jacket.

4. The method of claims 1 and 2, wherein the mixture of water and an adhesion-reducing agent is interposed between said sanitary jacket and said cone by the application of said mixture to the external surface of the cone.

5. The method of claims 1 and 2, wherein the mixture of water and an adhesion-reducing agent is interposed between said sanitary jacket and said cone by the application of said mixture to both the internal surface of the sanitary jacket and the external surface of the cone.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the adhesion-reducing agent is propylene glycol which is mixed with the water to form a mixture of about 85 volume persent propylene glycol and about 15 volume percent water.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the adhesion-reducing agent is glycerol which is mixed with the water to form a mixture of about 70 to 90 volume persent glycerol and about 10 to 30 volume percent water.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the adhesion-reducing agent is ethyl alcohol which is mixed with the water to form a mixture of about 55 to 60 volume percent ethyl alcohol and about 40 to 45 volume percent water.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the adhesion-reducing agent is honey which is mixed with the water to form a mixture of about 75 volume percent honey and about 15 volume percent water.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the adhesion-reducing agent is a fatty acid partial ester of sorbitol anhydride which is mixed with the water to form a mixture of about 15 volume percent of the anhydride and about 85 volume percent water.

11. The method of claim 2, wherein the vapor is applied in doses of about 60 milligrams with a particle size of about one micron.

14. The product produced by the method of claim 1.

12. A method of adhering sanitary jackets onto each of a succession of cones of a conformal shape with said jackets comprising:

conveying a plurality of cones, apex first, along a conveyor at regularly spaced intervals;

storing a vertical stack of said paper jackets above said conveyor and the conveyed path of said cones;

dispensing said jackets one at a time from said stack to a work holding means and injecting a vaporized mixture of about 85% propylene glycol and about 15% water into the interior thereof;

dispensing said vapor injected jackets onto said conveyor intermediate said cones and at substantially equal spaced intervals with said cones; and

inserting a trailing cone into and in position with a leading jacket while the latter is still moist from the vapor injection.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the vapor is applied in doses of about 60 milligrams with a particle size of about one micron.

15. The product produced by the method of claim 12.