Norse Dairy Systems, Inc.

Darifill, Inc.

Nestec Ltd

Jack D Spencer

Eric Rousculp

Scott Spears

David Sutton

David B Heinrich

G Scott Spears

An ice cream sandwich cartoner. The cartoner is configured to continue operation while clearing a jam.

Ice cream sandwich cartoner

An ice cream sandwich apparatus for making and wrapping ice cream sandwiches. The ice cream sandwich apparatus includes a plurality of stations driven by servo motors.

Ice cream sandwich apparatus

An improved wrapping apparatus for an ice-cream sandwich-making machine comprises an oscillating arm and cam which drives a horizontal slider plate connected to a frame, and a pusher unit connected to an air cylinder; an improved paper feeder system, including separate paper and knife drives, air compression springs, and a paper low sensor; and a hinged exit tray.

Ice cream sandwich-making machine

The present invention relates to a conveyor and packaging apparatus, as well as packaging conveyance and packaging methods for irregularly shaped articles and packages, such as for packaged food products as in the case of conical packages for ice cream confections and the like. In the present invention, pairs of manufactured articles having irregular profiles are moved along a conveyor system. Each of a given pair of articles moves along an independent conveyor path toward a predetermined destination. Each article may undergo a change in alignment along its path such that it is in a preferred orientation upon leaving the conveyor system. In a preferred embodiment, pairs of conical articles are oriented with the narrow ends in opposing directions (interlaced) upon leaving the system so as to minimize the amount of space required for packaging of the two articles when placed adjacent one another.

Conveyor and packaging apparatus and packaging conveyance and packaging methods

The present invention includes a spinning valve having an inner valve portion and an outer valve portion, and having multiple inlets and multiple chambers at different heights along the longitudinal axis of the inner valve portion. The present invention also includes a spinning valve having an inner valve portion and an outer valve portion, with multiple inlets at the same height along the longitudinal axis of the inner valve portion with single or multiple chambers at that location along the longitudinal axis. In each of these valves, the inner valve portion is adapted to spin within the outer valve portion. Additionally, the present invention includes an apparatus for dispensing two or more discrete streams of fluid into a series of containers by using one of the aforementioned valves.

Spinning valve

The apparatus uses a single, simple movement of a shoe to wrap the rear bottom tuck panel underneath the ice cream sandwich and to push the ice cream sandwich onto a conveyor surface. In addition, the apparatus utilizes at least one friction member to actively engage the ice cream sandwich while the shoe withdraws after pushing the ice cream sandwich onto the conveyor surface.

Ice cream sandwich wrapping apparatus having a friction member

A machine and method for making unit confections of shaped complementary parts which consist of different recipes, flavors, colors, textures and/or mix inclusions having groups of complementary molds, in which a group of first molds produces physical shapes which displace at least a portion of the product in a group of second molds to produce complementarily joined shaped confections produced in the group of second molds.

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Westerville, OH, United States of America

Jack D Spencer