WO2000057717A1 - Computer assisted printer for decoration of food product with edible ink - Google Patents

Computer assisted printer for decoration of food product with edible ink Download PDF

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WO2000057717A1
WO2000057717A1 PCT/IB2000/000342 IB0000342W WO0057717A1 WO 2000057717 A1 WO2000057717 A1 WO 2000057717A1 IB 0000342 W IB0000342 W IB 0000342W WO 0057717 A1 WO0057717 A1 WO 0057717A1
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food
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Leonardo Setti
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Lesepidado S.R.L.
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
    • A23G—COCOA; COCOA PRODUCTS, e.g. CHOCOLATE; SUBSTITUTES FOR COCOA OR COCOA PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; CHEWING GUM; ICE-CREAM; PREPARATION THEREOF
    • A23G3/00—Sweetmeats; Confectionery; Marzipan; Coated or filled products
    • A23G3/34—Sweetmeats, confectionery or marzipan; Processes for the preparation thereof
    • A23G3/50—Sweetmeats, confectionery or marzipan; Processes for the preparation thereof characterised by shape, structure or physical form, e.g. products with supported structure
    • A23G3/54—Composite products, e.g. layered, coated, filled
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
    • A23G—COCOA; COCOA PRODUCTS, e.g. CHOCOLATE; SUBSTITUTES FOR COCOA OR COCOA PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; CHEWING GUM; ICE-CREAM; PREPARATION THEREOF
    • A23G3/00—Sweetmeats; Confectionery; Marzipan; Coated or filled products
    • A23G3/02—Apparatus specially adapted for manufacture or treatment of sweetmeats or confectionery; Accessories therefor
    • A23G3/20—Apparatus for coating or filling sweetmeats or confectionery
    • A23G3/2092—Apparatus for coating with atomised liquid, droplet bed, liquid spray
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
    • A23G—COCOA; COCOA PRODUCTS, e.g. CHOCOLATE; SUBSTITUTES FOR COCOA OR COCOA PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; CHEWING GUM; ICE-CREAM; PREPARATION THEREOF
    • A23G3/00—Sweetmeats; Confectionery; Marzipan; Coated or filled products
    • A23G3/02—Apparatus specially adapted for manufacture or treatment of sweetmeats or confectionery; Accessories therefor
    • A23G3/20—Apparatus for coating or filling sweetmeats or confectionery
    • A23G3/22—Apparatus for coating by casting of liquids
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
    • A23G—COCOA; COCOA PRODUCTS, e.g. CHOCOLATE; SUBSTITUTES FOR COCOA OR COCOA PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; CHEWING GUM; ICE-CREAM; PREPARATION THEREOF
    • A23G3/00—Sweetmeats; Confectionery; Marzipan; Coated or filled products
    • A23G3/02—Apparatus specially adapted for manufacture or treatment of sweetmeats or confectionery; Accessories therefor
    • A23G3/28—Apparatus for decorating sweetmeats or confectionery
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
    • A23P—SHAPING OR WORKING OF FOODSTUFFS, NOT FULLY COVERED BY A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS
    • A23P10/00—Shaping or working of foodstuffs characterised by the products
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed

Definitions

  • the invention refers to the technological field of the computer science systems for printing, and in particular, to the food products decorating systems.
  • the problem to solve is to realize an economic system including an extremely simplified electronic programme, and specifically dedicated to the management of the food products decorating operations.
  • Figure 1 schematically indicates a very common computer science equipment.
  • Picture 2 indicates a birthday cake topped with a sheet of edible material decorated with fantasy images and with printed text made of food inks, non toxic and ecological.
  • the food printing operation is handled by an electronic programme preinstalled in the computer.
  • Figure 3 indicates the components that are in contacts with the printing sheets
  • 3 is a sheet of edible material.
  • the system functioning is very simple and versatile.
  • the fantasy pictures and the printed text fonts are managed and personalized by an electronic programme specifically prepared for the food products decoration.

Abstract

A system for computer science management of the decoration of sheet (3) of edible material food products including an economical printer prepared for food use and equipped with cartridge (5) made with material for food applications and loaded with food, non toxic and ecological inks.

Description

COMPUTER ASSISTED PRINTER FOR DECORATION OF FOOD PRODUCT
WITH EDIBLE INK
TECHNICAL FIELD
The invention refers to the technological field of the computer science systems for printing, and in particular, to the food products decorating systems.
STATE OF THE PRIOR ART
In the previous patent literature is included the document USA 4
910 661, in which it is described an computer science system for decorating confectionary products.
The equipment described therein results dimensionally very large and its management requires very expert operators.
The problem to solve is to realize an economic system including an extremely simplified electronic programme, and specifically dedicated to the management of the food products decorating operations.
DESCRIPTION
The system object of this invention is here described with reference to schematic figures of the drawings attached as a non- li-miting example.
Figure 1 schematically indicates a very common computer science equipment.
Picture 2 indicates a birthday cake topped with a sheet of edible material decorated with fantasy images and with printed text made of food inks, non toxic and ecological. The food printing operation is handled by an electronic programme preinstalled in the computer. Figure 3 indicates the components that are in contacts with the printing sheets
In the figures each single item is marked as follows:
1 indicates a personal computer
2 symbolically indicates an electronic programme, simplyfied and specifically dedicated to the managing of the decorating operations with the use of food inks, non toxic and ecological.
3 is a sheet of edible material.
4 is an economic printer specifically prepared for food only operations, i.e. in which all of the components that are in contact with the printing sheet are made in materials suitable for food applications.
5 symbolically indicates some cartridges made of materials suitable for food applications loaded with food inks, non toxic and ecological.
6 is a birthday cake.
7 indicates a fantasy image in the decoration of the cake.
8 indicates the printed text fonts in the decoration of the cake.
9 indicates the alignements rollers.
10 indicates the feed roller .
11 indicates the supporting spoiler
The system functioning is very simple and versatile.
The speed and simplicity of the system's optimization make its use easy also to non-specialized operators.
The fantasy pictures and the printed text fonts are managed and personalized by an electronic programme specifically prepared for the food products decoration.
It is evident that the system can be operated with different structural, dimensional and computer science programme modifications without going out of the protection sphere of the present invention. The present printing system with food, non toxic and ecological inks, finds useful application also in the production of printed material intrinsically having reduced environmental impact and solving the specific problematics of the printed paper rubbish. It is also evident that by printing on common paper with non toxic inks the danger that the manipulation of the printed material represents for people is also eliminated. It is in fact frequent the case when, particularly in the childhood ambients, an accidental ingestion of printed paper happens. Now that the original characteristics of the present industrial invention have been revealed, any person skilled in the same technical field, will be able without any inventive effort but with simple logical deductions and specifical technical applications known in the art, to realize a system for the computer science management of the decoration of food products reproducing the functionality of the present invention as substantially described, illustrated and thereafter claimed.

Claims

1) System for the computer science management of the decoration of food products, CHARACTERIZED BY THE FACT of including an economical printer, prepared for food use? and equipped with cartridges made with materials for food applications and loaded with food, non toxic and ecological inks.
2) System according to claim 1), CHARACTERIZED BY THE FACT that the management of the printing operations is governed by an electronic programme dedicated to the decoration of food products.
3) System according to claims 1) and 2), CHARACTERIZED BY THE FACT that the electronic programme dedicated to the printing operations for food applications is extremely simplified to allow an easy and versatile executive managing also to non-specialized operators.
4) System according to any preceding claims CHARACTERIZED BY THE FACT that the printer is suitable to the use of: common paper, paper for food applications, packing paper and edible materials.
5) System according to any preceding claims CHARACTERIZED BY THE FACT that the use of ecological inks reduces the environmental impact caused by the piling up of rubbish of printed paper.
6) System according to any preceding claims CHARACTERIZED BY THE FACT that the use of non toxic inks eliminates the danger that the manipulation of the printed materials represent for people. 7) System according to any preceding claims CHARACTERIZED BY THE FACT that all the components (9,10,11) that are in contact with the printing sheets (3) are realized with material suitable for food applications , ecological and atoxic.
8) System according to any preceding claims CHARACTERIZED BY THE FACT tha t the cartridge (5) and his refil containing inks for food application, ecological and atoxic, can be disposed as a product which is not pregiuditial to the health of the community .
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WO2006021905A1 (en) 2004-08-25 2006-03-02 Bühler Bindler GmbH Method and plant for the production of confectionery
US7029112B2 (en) 2002-08-05 2006-04-18 Mars, Incorporated Ink-jet printing on surface modified edibles and products made
US7884953B1 (en) 2000-06-02 2011-02-08 Mars Incorporated High resolution ink-jet printing on edibles and products made
US9854828B2 (en) 2014-09-29 2018-01-02 William Langeland Method, system and apparatus for creating 3D-printed edible objects

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EP0321188A2 (en) * 1987-12-14 1989-06-21 Edgar L. Barth Method and apparatus for decorating cakes and other foods
DE4229897A1 (en) * 1992-09-11 1994-03-24 Grobbel Michael Dipl Designer Novel edible food prods in thin slab form - having the size and shape of a plastic credit card, charge card, etc
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JPH09171A (en) * 1995-06-21 1997-01-07 Takamitsu Morizaki Sheet for cooking
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US7884953B1 (en) 2000-06-02 2011-02-08 Mars Incorporated High resolution ink-jet printing on edibles and products made
US8414697B2 (en) 2000-06-02 2013-04-09 Mars, Incorporated High resolution ink-jet printing on edibles and products made
US9357800B2 (en) 2000-06-02 2016-06-07 Mars, Incorporated Edibles comprising a high resolution image
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WO2006021905A1 (en) 2004-08-25 2006-03-02 Bühler Bindler GmbH Method and plant for the production of confectionery
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