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

• Current Assignee: Sweethart Cup Company Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Maryland Cup Corporation
• Inventors: Weinstein, David
• Primary Examiner(s): MASSIE, JEROME W
• Application Number:
  US06/419,533
• Time in Patent Office: 1,033 Days
• Field of Search: 156/293, 156/423, 156/556, 156/578, 156/69, 426/139, 53/445, 53/585, 53/540, 53/397, 29/451, 29/453, 29/771, 29/773, 29/778, 29/787, 29/786, 29/777, 414/103, 414/104, 414/105
• US Class Current: 156/423
• 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: Y10T 156/1744 Means bringing discrete articles into assembled relationship
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1798 with liquid adhesive or adhesive activator applying means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49872 Confining elastic part in socket
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49876 by snap fit
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53313 Means to interrelatedly feed plural work parts from plural sources without manual intervention
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53322 Means to assemble container
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53343 including fluid component
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53383 and means to fasten work parts together

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 water vapor or steam. A conveyor for the cones, a timed dispenser and injector for the jackets placing the latter 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. 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.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 which further includes accumulative means for receiving said juxtaposed cone and jacket from said joining means.

3. An apparatus for forming jacketed cone products comprising

conveying means for transporting at least one cone along a given path,

dispensing means for placing a sanitary jacket for each cone onto said conveying means in said given path, said dispensing means including an injection means operatively associated therewith for applying an adhesive inducing material into the interior of said jackets prior to placing said jackets in said given path, and

nesting means operating in a substantially horizontal plane for joining the cone and jacket together, said nesting means including means for varying the velocity of the cone and jacket, relative to each other, to form a jacketed cone product.

4. The apparatus of claim 3 wherein the nesting means includes means for at least momentarily halting the movement of the preceding jacket or cone while continuing the movement of the following cone or jacket, respectively, to cause nesting of the jacket with the cone.

9. The apparatus of claim 3 wherein the means for applying an adhesion inducing material into the interior of said jackets is a spray injection means.

5. An apparatus for forming a jacketed cone product comprising

conveying means for transporting a cone apex first along a given path;

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

said dispensing means including;

a jacket magazine for dispensing one jacket at a time;

a jacket receiving means for receiving one jacket at a time from said jacket magazine and holding the same momentarily;

water vapor injection means for injecting water vapor into the interior of said jacket while being held by said jacket receiving means, said jacket receiving means releasing said jacket after said injection;

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

nesting means for telescoping said jacket means over and into juxtaposition with said cone means.

6. The apparatus of claim 5 which further includes accumulative means for receiving said juxtaposed cone and jacket from said joining means.

7. An apparatus for forming jacketed cone products comprising

conveying means containing a conveying surface which moves in a substantially horizontal plane for transporting a plurality of cones disposed thereon simultaneously along a substantially horizontal path;

dispensing means for placing sanitary jackets for said cones onto said moving, conveying surface, intermediate said cones and in a spaced-apart relationship, said dispensing means including an injection means operatively associated therewith for applying an adhesion inducing material into the interior of said jackets prior to placing said sanitary jackets on said conveying surface, and

nesting means for joining the cones and sanitary jackets together to form a jacketed cone product.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein the means for applying an adhesion inducing material into the interior of said jackets is a spray injection means.