Composite pastry mold and baked goods production process

• US 5,693,355 A
• Filed: 12/13/1995
• Issued: 12/02/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nada Haas
• Original Assignee: Nada Haas
• Inventors: Haas, Nada
• Primary Examiner(s): Yeung, George
• Application Number:
  US08/571,854
• Time in Patent Office: 720 Days
• Field of Search: 426/523, 426/139, 426/512, 99/383, 99/442, 425/438, 425/443, 425/422, 425/416
• US Class Current: 426/523
• CPC Class Codes: A21B 5/026 for baking waffle cups or cones
• CPC Class Codes: A21C 15/025 Apparatus for shaping or moulding baked wafers, e.g. to obtain cones for ice cream

Abstract

A baking mold for baking goods includes an upper movable and substantially conical part provided with independently slidable guide part which has a plurality of steam vents providing a free passage for the steam upon displacing the upper part into a lower part while baking the goods.

Claims

1. A composite baking mold comprising:

a lower part provided with an opening centered along an axis, said opening receiving a wafer dough and being formed with a peripheral surface;

an upper part formed with;

a mold plate,

a mold core mounted on said mold plate and extending axially downwardly toward and coaxial with said opening of said lower part, said mold core being formed with;

a guide cylinder on said mold plate, and

a conical core extending axially downwardly from said guide cylinder and having an outer surface tapering towards said lower mold part,

a ring-shaped component mounted coaxially with and slidably on said mold core and extending radially outwardly therefrom, said ring component being formed with a lower annular shoulder,

means forming at least one passage in a bottom of said ring-shaped component,

a compression spring braced between said mold plate and said bottom of said ring-shaped component; and

means for selectively axially displacing said upper and lower parts relative one another between a fully withdrawn position and a fully engaged position, said outer surface of the conical core and said peripheral surface of the opening defining a cavity therebetween conforming a desired configuration of goods to be baked in said fully engaged position in which said upper part is biased against said lower part by said compression spring preventing thereby escape of the dough from said cavity but allowing steam to evacuate through said one passage during the baking process.

2. The baking mold defined in claim 1 wherein said bottom of said ring component is formed with an annular flange having said passage and extending into said cavity for sealing off said lower part of the mold in said fully engaged position.

3. The baking mold defined in claim 1, wherein said passage is closable.

4. The baking mold defined in claim 1 wherein said lower part of the mold is axially splittable in said withdrawn position, said lower part further being formed with a dish-like drip catcher extending toward said upper part of the mold and having a respective upper surface, said bottom of the ring-shaped component being formed with a surface complementing the upper surface of the dish-like catcher in the engaged position.

5. The baking mold defined in claim 1 wherein said ring-shaped component being formed with a second passage spaced axially upwardly from said one passage, said guide cylinder sealing said second passage in said fully engaged position of said parts.

6. The baking mold defined in claim 1 wherein said mold core and said ring-shaped component are made of different materials including brass and steel.

7. The baking mold defined in claim 1 wherein displacement of said upper and lower parts are controllably stopped in an intermediate position between said withdrawn and engaged positions, said ring-shaped component holding the baked good within said cavity in said intermediary position.

8. A process for baking goods from a wafer dough in a baking mold including a lower part formed with an opening centered on an axis and an upper part provided with:

a mold core coaxial with said opening and formed with a cylinder part and a conical part,

a ring-shaped component mounted axially slidably on and extending radially outwardly from said cylinder part, and

a compression spring operatively connected with said component and exerting a force directed axially downwardly toward said lower part, said process comprising the steps of;

a) filling the opening of the lower part with the wafer dough;

b) bringing the lower and upper parts of the baking mold in an intermediary position, so that the ring-shaped component of the upper part is urged against the lower part by the spring, thereby closing the opening of the lower part of the baking mold and forming a cavity defined between respective surfaces of the conical part and opening and having a gap width corresponding to 2-3 times a wall thickness of a finished good to be baked;

c) thereafter pre-baking the wafer dough contained in the cavity for approximately 10 sec;

d) thereafter pushing said upper and lower parts further toward one another in a fully closed position, so that a width of said cavity corresponds to a final thickness of the good to be baked, and maintaining said fully closed position for at most 4 seconds;

e) thereafter pulling said parts away from one another back to the intermediary position defined in step (b) and baking the wafer dough for approximately 100 seconds;

f) thereafter displacing the parts towards one another in the fully closed position defined in step (d) and baking the wafer dough for approximately another 60 seconds;

g) displacing the lower and upper parts away from each other while holding the baked good in the lower part by the ring-shaped component until a distance between the mold parts is greater than a travel path of the ring-shaped component along the mold core; and

h) thereafter splitting said lower part along said axis.