Machine for forming cones

• US 6,227,103 B1
• Filed: 12/29/1999
• Issued: 05/08/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: FOM - Comercio De Maquinas E Servicos Lda.
• Original Assignee: Franz Haas Waffelmaschinen-Industrie Aktiengesellschaft
• Inventors: Haas, Sen., Franz, Haas, Johann, Obermaier, Fritz
• Primary Examiner(s): Simone, Timothy F.
• Application Number:
  US09/462,058
• Time in Patent Office: 496 Days
• Field of Search: 99/335, 99/352-355, 99/361, 99/372-384, 99/426-428, 99/439, 99/442, 99/443 R, 99/443 C, 99/450.1-450.7, 425/319, 425/322, 425/397, 425/422, 425/438, 425/443, 425/317, 425/334, 425/347, 426/231-233, 426/496, 426/390, 426/501, 426/512, 426/514, 426/523
• US Class Current: 99/354
• CPC Class Codes: A21C 15/025 Apparatus for shaping or moulding baked wafers, e.g. to obtain cones for ice cream

Abstract

A machine for making cones from baked wafers utilizes roll-up mechanism in the form of a roll-up mandrel and a roll-up form. A multiplicity of such mechanisms is carried by a chain along an endless path. Each roll-up mechanism can have a frame on which the roll-up mandrel and roll-up form is mounted.

Claims

1. A cone-making machine comprising an endless chain of roll-up mechanisms for rolling up flat wafer cakes into cones while moving along a closed endless path from a loading station for introducing flat wafer cakes into each roll-up mechanism to a discharge station for the rolled-up cones, each roll-up mechanism rolling up flat wafer cakes into cones between a rotatable roll-up mandrel defining a rolling axis and a roll-up form coaxial with said rolling axis and mounted on a roll-up form carrier movable parallel to said rolling axis, each roll-up mechanism comprising a respective frame in which said roll-up form carrier is movably supported and on which said roll-up mandrel is rotatably but axially immovably supported, each roll-up mechanism being fastened with the respective frame to at least two endless transport chains extending parallel to each other along said closed endless path from a lower transport level over first chain guiding devices in an area of said loading station to an upper transport level and over second chain guiding devices back to said lower transport level.

2. A cone-making machine comprising an endless chain of roll-up mechanisms for rolling up flat wafer cakes into cones while moving along a closed endless path from a loading station for introducing flat wafer cakes into each roll-up mechanism to a discharge station for the rolled-up cones, each roll-up mechanism rolling up flat wafer cakes into cones between a rotatable roll-up mandrel defining a rolling axis and a roll-up form coaxial with said rolling axis and mounted on a roll-up form carrier movable parallel to said rolling axis, each roll-up mechanism comprising a respective frame in which said roll-up form carrier is movably supported and said roll-up mandrel is arranged at a frontal end of a shaft which is rotatable by a drive wheel and rotatably but axially immovably supported in said rigid frame, each roll-up mechanism being fastened with the respective frame to at least two endless transport chains extending parallel to each other along said closed endless path from a lower transport level over first chain guiding devices in an area of said loading station to an upper transport level and over second chain guiding devices back to said lower transport level.