ICE-CANDY FORMING CONTAINER AND ICE-CANDY PRODUCING METHOD

• US 20090175991A1
• Filed: 01/07/2008
• Published: 07/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zensho Company Limited (Zensho Holdings Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Zensho Company Limited (Zensho Holdings Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: TAKEUCHI, Shoji
• Granted Patent: US 7,955,066 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 426/383
• CPC Class Codes: A23G 1/22 Chocolate moulds A23G1/21 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A23G 3/0031 Moulds processing A23G3/0029 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A23G 3/0268 Moulds A23G3/0263 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A23G 9/04 Production of frozen sweets, e.g. ice-cream
• CPC Class Codes: A23G 9/22 Details, component parts or accessories of apparatus insofar as not peculiar to a single one of the preceding groups
• CPC Class Codes: A23G 9/50 Products with edible or inedible supports, e.g. cornets

Abstract

This invention provides an ice-candy forming container and an ice-candy producing method, which enable the ice-candies having a complicated shape copying a face of a cartoon character or the like to be produced with higher quality and without a loss of shape. This invention employs a forming container A including a first mold 1 having a pattern portion 5 formed in one face 3 thereof, and a second mold 2 configured to slide over and along the one face 3 of the first mold 1, in a close contact relation, in directions designated by arrows A1-A2, so as to contain the first mold 1 therein. In such a containing-in position, the second mold 2 contacts externally and closely with substantially the whole surface of the outer periphery of the pattern portion 5.

Claims

1. An ice-candy forming container, comprising:

a first mold having one face in which a pattern portion is formed, the pattern portion being able to be filled with a raw material liquid for an ice-candy; and

a second mold configured to slide over and along the one face of the first mold in a close contact relation such that the second mold can exchangeably take a containing-in position in which it contains the first mold therein and a non-containing-in position in which it is removed from the first mold, wherein in the containing-in position, the second mold contacts closely with substantially the whole surface of the outer periphery of the pattern portion of the one face of the first mold.

2. The ice-candy forming container according to claim 1, wherein the first mold and/or second mold is formed from aluminum.

3. The ice-candy forming container according to claim 1,

wherein an injection passage is provided in the first mold, the injection passage connecting one end of the first mold with the pattern portion;

and

wherein the raw material liquid can be injected into the pattern portion via the injection passage in the containing-in position.

4. An ice-candy forming container, comprising:

a mold body having an interior in which a raw material liquid for an ice-candy can be filled; and

a communication hole which is in communication with the interior and configured to allow a stick of the ice-candy to be inserted from the exterior into the interior,

wherein the communication hole includes;

an occupied portion to be occupied by the stick when the stick is inserted, and

non-occupied portions which are formed adjacent to the occupied portion, and are not occupied by the stick when the stick is inserted, and are configured to communicate the interior with the exterior.

5. The ice-candy forming container according to claim 4,

wherein the interior of the mold body has a predetermined pattern in one face of the mold body, and

wherein the non-occupied portions includes:

a first non-occupied portion which is relatively large and provided on the side of the one face, and

a second non-occupied portion which is relatively small and provided at a portion opposed to the one face across the occupied portion.

6. An ice-candy producing method, comprising the steps of:

filling a raw material liquid for an ice-candy in a predetermined forming container;

freezing the raw material liquid in the forming container for forming an ice candy by cooling the forming container; and

releasing the ice-candy from the forming container, the ice-candy being to be obtained by freezing the raw material liquid in the freezing step,

wherein a heating step using a heating plate for heating the ice-candy by pressing the forming container against the heating plate is provided between the freezing step and the releasing step.

7. The ice-candy producing method according to claim 6,

wherein the forming container includes a first mold having one face in which a pattern portion is formed, the pattern portion being able to be filled with a raw material liquid for an ice-candy, and a second mold configured to slide over and along the one face of the first mold in a close contact relation such that the second mold can exchangeably take a containing-in position in which it contains the first mold therein and a non-containing-in position in which it is removed from the first mold, wherein in the containing-in position, the second mold contacts closely with substantially the whole surface of the outer periphery of the pattern portion of the one face of the first mold, and

wherein the heating step using the heating plate includes a step of pressing a back face opposed to the one face and a portion corresponding to a face adjacent to both of the one face and the back face of the first mold against the heating plate, in the non-containing-in position of the second mold.

8. An ice-candy producing method employing a mold including a pattern portion formed in one face of the mold and able to be filled with a raw material liquid for an ice-candy and a stick holding portion which is configured to hold a stick of the ice-candy and provided at an edge of the pattern portion located in a predetermined direction along the one face, the method comprising the steps of:

holding the stick by using the stick holding portion such that one end of the stick is inserted in the pattern portion while the other end of the stick is projected to the outside from the mold in the predetermined direction;

filling the raw material liquid for an ice-candy in the pattern portion;

freezing the raw material liquid by cooling the mold, with the one end of the stick being immersed in the raw material liquid filled in the pattern portion; and

releasing the ice-candy from the mold, the ice-candy being to be obtained by freezing the raw material liquid in the freezing step,

wherein the releasing step includes;

a first releasing step of releasing one end and a portion around the one end of the ice-candy located in a direction reverse to the predetermined direction, by applying force to the other end of the stick in one direction orthogonal to the one face by utilizing the stick holding portion as a fulcrum, and

a second releasing step of releasing the other portion of the ice-candy, than the portions released in the first releasing step, from the mold, by translating the ice-candy in an intermediate direction defined between the other direction orthogonal to the one face and the direction reverse to the predetermined direction.

9. The ice-candy producing method according to claim 8, wherein an angle defined by the intermediate direction and the one face is approximately 45 degrees.

10. An ice-candy producing method, comprising the steps of:

filling a raw material liquid for an ice-candy in a predetermined forming container;

freezing the raw material liquid in the forming container for forming an ice candy by cooling the forming container; and

releasing the ice candy from the forming container, the ice candy being to be obtained by freezing the raw material liquid in the freezing step,

wherein a heating step for heating the ice-candy is provided between the freezing step and the releasing step, and

wherein after the releasing step, a drying step, for drying the ice-candy by blowing a cold wind over the ice-candy having been released from the forming container, is performed.

11. An ice-candy producing method employing a forming container, which includes a first mold having one face in which a pattern portion is formed, the pattern portion being able to be filled with a raw material liquid for an ice-candy, and a second mold configured to slide over and along the one face of the first mold in a close contact relation such that the second mold can exchangeably take a containing-in position in which it contains the first mold therein and a non-containing-in position in which it is removed from the first mold, wherein in the containing-in position, the second mold contacts closely with substantially the whole surface of the outer periphery of the pattern portion of the one face of the first mold,

wherein an injection passage is provided in the first mold, the injection passage connecting one end of the first mold with the pattern portion, and wherein the raw material liquid can be injected into the pattern portion via the injection passage in the containing-in position, the ice-candy producing method comprising the steps of:

immersing the forming container in a brine tank filled with a liquid of about −

30°

C., with the second mold being in the containing-in position in which it contains the first mold therein;

filling the raw material liquid in the pattern portion of the first mold, by injecting the raw material liquid for an ice-candy into the forming container via the injection passage, while the forming container is immersed in the brine tank;

removing the forming container from the brine tank about 10 minutes later after the filling of the raw material liquid in the raw material liquid filling step;

immersing the forming container in a hot water tank filled with a liquid of approximately 72°

C. for about 10 seconds after the forming container removing step;

removing the second mold from the first mold so as to bring the second mold into the non-containing-in position in which the second mold is removed from the first mold, after the hot water heating step; and

pressing a back face opposed to the one face having the pattern portion formed therein and a portion corresponding to a face adjacent to both of the one face and the back face of the first mold against a heating plate of 80 to 90°

C., in the non-containing-in position of the second mold having been brought by the second mold removing step.