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Ice cream cone with jacket attached and apparatus for producing same

  • US 4,529,470 A
  • Filed: 09/17/1982
  • Issued: 07/16/1985
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/10/1978
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An apparatus for forming a jacketed ice cream cone product comprising:

  • means for conveying an ice cream cone apex first in a first plane;

    means for dispensing a sanitary jacket for said cone onto said conveyor in advance of said cone and with an open end forcing said apex to subsequently receive the latter;

    said dispensing means including;

    a jacket magazine dispensing one jacket at a time;

    a second dispensing means receiving one jacket at a time from said magazine and holding same momemtarily;

    water vapor injection means for injecting water vapor into the interior of said jacket while held by said second dispensing means;

    said second dispensing means releasing said jacket after said injection; and

    guide means receiving said released and injected jacket and depositing the latter on said conveyor ahead of a cone to be received therein; and

    joining means telescoping said jacket means over and into juxtaposition with said cone means.

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