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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 1986
Filed:
Apr. 27, 1984
John F Jones, Prospect, CT (US);
Other;
Abstract
A low labor, highly efficient process and system for manufacturing chocolate coated ice cream cookie sandwiches is achieved by incorporating a conveyor system for transporting the ice cream cookie sandwich through the various stages of its manufacture along with uniquely constructed ice cream brick slicing machines and a unique chocolate coating machine. In addition, a pass-through freezer is preferably employed prior to the chocolate coating, in order to assure a high quality, tasty product. The ice cream slicing machine of the present invention employed in the process and manufacturing system of this invention is constructed for receiving a plurality of ice cream bricks and cutting each brick into a plurality of slices in an efficient, automatic, integrated operational procedure and presenting each ice cream slice to a holding zone for placement on a cookie moving along the conveyor system. In addition, the chocolate coating machine of the present invention incorporated into the process and manufacturing system of this invention incorporates a plurality of clamps controllably driven about the coating machine and positioned for receiving the ice cream cookie sandwich and automatically submerging the sandwich in a chocolate bath and automatically releasing the chocolate-coated ice cream cookie sandwich when the chocolate coating has completely cooled and dried.