Ice cream cone with jacket attached and method therefor

• US 4,313,965 A
• Filed: 05/30/1978
• Issued: 02/02/1982
• 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:
  US05/910,886
• Time in Patent Office: 1,344 Days
• Field of Search: 426/139, 426/135, 426/132, 426/811, 221/1, 221/290, 221/113, 221/240, 53/397, 53/141
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 426/811 Utilizing surface parting, antistick or release agent

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 thereon at the point of consumption. A jacket is telescopically juxtaposed over the cone after the jacket interior is dosed with a mixture of water vapor and propylene glycol.

Claims

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

applying a dose of vapor consisting of a mixture of about 85% propylene glycol and about 15% water in a short duration burst to the interior of said jacket;

inserting an ice cream cone into said jacket into juxtaposition therewith while said vapor remains on the internal surface of said jacket; and

drying the combined cone and jacket.

2. The method of claim 1 in which said dose of vapor is on the order of 60 milligrams and having a particle size on the order of one micron.

3. The jacketed cone product by the method of claim 1.

4. The jacketed cone product by the method of claim 1 wherein said jacket is constructed of paper.

5. The jacketed cone product by the method of claim 2.

6. The method of adhering sanitary jackets on to each of a succession of ice cream cones of a conformal shape with said jackets comprising:

conveying a plurality of ice cream 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 in a short duration burst into the interior thereof;

dispensing said vapor injected jackets onto said conveyor 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.

7. The invention of claim 6 in which said dose of water vaporized mixture is on the order of about 60 milligrams and has a particle size on the order of one micron.