FR2516353A1 - CONSUMABLE FOOD CONTAINER FOR FAST RESTORATION AND MEANS FOR ITS MANUFACTURE - Google Patents

Abstract

The edible container (1) is made of dough and may contain various food products. It is obtained from a single operation combining the molding and the cooking of the raised dough. It has a cylindrical conical shape with a circular or polygonal cross-section, with a flat or concave bottom, presenting a slight inner (1, b) and outer (1, a) crust, which encloses a fine bubble crumb (1c) providing to the container resistance, impermeability and isothermic characteristics. It has a hole provided as a blind chimney (2) for housing nutriments. A plurality of containers are obtained from a mold comprising a plurality of truncated cone-shaped cups (7) wherein truncated cone-shaped dies (10) fixed under a cover (8) penetrate.

Description

Consumable food container for fast food and means for its manufacture.

 The present invention relates to a consumable food container obtained by baking a leavened bread dough in a mold designed for this purpose. This assimilable container can accommodate, in a central chimney it contains, a wide variety of separate or combined food and can be associated with a beverage container.

 There are currently sandwiches on the market consisting of two slices of bread between which a thinly sliced ham is interposed with or without butter or a thinly sliced cheese or any other product. There are also sandwiches made with half baguettes including we forced the inside with a heated tip: which had the effect of compressing the crumb and creating a tubular housing in which we introduce a hot sausage coated or not with a condiment. We also know the "pan bania" this round loaf open horizontally and containing an assortment of vegetables, salad, fish or ham.

 All these products allowing a fast food, replace or try to replace a meal. They have many drawbacks: very often lack of hygiene as a result of preparation in stands installed on the sidewalks or on the "zinc". Those who are prepared to order are usually prepared by hand, without health precautions. Sandwiches are sometimes stored in unrefrigerated places as required by hygiene regulations for foodstuffs that are extremely vulnerable to toxins. To these environmental disadvantages are added those inherent in their forms which do not facilitate their ingestion. Indeed, it is necessary to bite into generally broad or thick slices which let escape on the sides the content interposed between them. Their grip often mobilizes the two hands of the consumer who tries to maintain in perfect cohesion the parts constituting the whole.

 To overcome these multiple drawbacks, we have imagined making a food container whose attractive and functional shape allows infinite varieties of content and whose grip and consumption are easy and pleasant.

The container in question is proposed as a new industrial product, because its manufacture goes beyond the artisanal stage so that all hygiene measures are respected,
The food container according to the invention is a balanced bread obtained in a single operation by molding and baking a dough deposited by measured patons in cells where they have risen and on which is folded a cover provided with hollow cylindrical punches closed at their free end, each punch coming to occupy the center of each cell and thus reserving between its periphery and the interior of the cell a space occupied by the dough that has been placed there. Lifting, the dough rises along each When placed in the oven at the right time, the molded dough is baked outside and inside, which can be left overflowing or not to form a collar giving a psychological impression of abundance when presented to the public.

 The fineness of the bread produced gives the container appreciable isothermal qualities. The internal and external droppings give it the rigidity necessary for good support and sufficient impermeability.

 The invention is set out below in more detail with the aid of the drawings showing only one embodiment.

 Figure 1 shows in elevation and on a reduced scale, a container according to the invention.

 Figure 2 is a sectional view.

 Figure 3 is a plan view from above.

 Figure A schematically shows a mold for obtaining several containers according to the invention.

 Figure 5 shows the assembly of two containers.

 Figures 6, 7 and 8 show containers according to the invention associated with beverage containers of different shapes.

 In the embodiment shown, the container 1 is cylindro-conical, but it could be of cross section, square, triangular, semi-cylindrical, or of any other derived polygonal shape, while retaining an interior chimney 2. The base is slightly conical; it can have a greater taper to allow for example a superposition of several containers. This base may also have a constricted part reserving a peripheral shoulder 3 for the same superposition of several containers containing different substances (fig. 5).

 The base can also be arranged to adapt to an auxiliary container 4 made of another material and capable of containing, for example, a drink the absorption of which is effected by means of a straw 5, planted by the consumer in a location reserved for this effect, in known manner.

This accessory container can contain a complementary food, a condiment, a liquid, a fluid, a solid, a pasty, a heavy or a powder and can take any shape, for example cylindrical (fig. 6), spherical (fig. 7) ), semi-spherical (fig. 8), so as to ensure the vertical stability of the food container regardless of the surface on which it is placed and its inclinations or movements or vibrations.

 The regular shape of the container comes from its industrial production, it allows mechanical and standardized handling for filling with culinary products such as diced meat, vegetables or any other ingredients including desserts.

 Several containers 1 are molded from the elements shown in Figure 4 and which include a base plate 6 on which are fixed cylindrical cells 7, or slightly frustoconical as shown. A cover 8 covers the cells 7 and locks at 9.I1 comprises frustoconical punches 10 as shown to ensure demoulding without breakage arranged in the center of the cells 7 when the cover 8 is closed. The central chimney 2 can also be shaped by compression or heated extrusion.

 The mold shown in Figure 4 has five cells, but of course it can include many more, depending on the ovens in which the cooking takes place.

 The dough pieces are placed in the cells 7 and the doughs 10 are put in place by folding down the cover 8. The dough pieces grow and when they are sufficiently lifted, the mold is placed in the oven.

 The cooking gives the container a certain rigidity provided by the formation of an outer droppings la and an inner crust lb surrounding the crumb lc. I1 can thus withstand vertical, lateral and twisting forces during handling, storage and assembly. In addition, this coating crust gives the container the property of being liquid-tight and isothermal.

 The use of a fatty release agent can reinforce the natural seal of the product and allow the filling of the chimney 2 with very humid or even fluid foods. The parts of the mold can also be coated with a self-lubricating seal. Finally, it is possible to envisage molding the containers with disposable and / or degradable envelopes, in aluminum or greaseproof paper for example, these envelopes replacing the cells 7 in the mold.

 The structure of the cooked dough of the container is with fine bubbles with closed cells, obtained by known means, such as yeasts, leaven and other expansion products, fermented or not. We can thus carefully balance the amounts of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins and calories.

 The shape of the container can be infinitely varied; it suffices to provide the section and the dimensions of the cells 7 and of the punches 10 accordingly. It is also possible to provide hooking elements, nipples, screws and other pro-tubers or protuberances at the bottom so as to be able to fix an additional container made of another material.

We can consider the top of the flat container, curved, concave or convex or overflowing in mushroom as shown. I1 is expected to personalize the containers by molding in relief or intaglio of a drawing, an acronym or letters, brand or other.

 The shape of the container makes it easier for the consumer to grasp. The interior can contain all kinds of culinary preparations. We can consider consuming it cold, warm or hot with its content. I1 is provided for this purpose to store the containers in devices capable of maintaining the desired temperatures.

 In the variant in FIG. 5, successive compartments have been provided to contain different food products which can constitute the starter, the main dish and the dessert.

A whole range of possibilities is thus offered by the qualities of form and the mechanical capacities of the material.

Claims (10)

Claims  1 - Consumable and modular food container for fast food, made of bread dough and which can contain various cooked food products, characterized in that it is cylindro-conical with circular or polygonal section, with flat or concave bottom, which 'It is hollowed out of a blind chimney to house food and it is obtained in a single operation combining the molding and cooking of the leavened dough.  2 - Consumable container according to claim 1, characterized in that it has, internally and externally, a light crust enclosing a crumb with fine bubbles, giving it resistance, impermeability and isothermal.  3 - Food container according to claim 1, characterized in that its base is accompanied by means for attaching an auxiliary container capable of containing a liquid, a fluid, a solid, a pasty, a heavy or a powder.  4 - Food container according to claim 3, characterized in that the attachment means to an auxiliary container are protuberances, in particular in the form of nipples, screws and protuberances formed at the base of the container.  5 - Food container according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that its base is constricted so that a peripheral shoulder allows it to be fitted onto another container of the same design to form independent compartments and to receive food products different.  6 - container according to claims 3 and 4, characterized in that the auxiliary container can be spherical or semi-spherical, to make it stable.  7 - Mold for the manufacture of food containers according to claim 1, characterized in that it comprises a base plate (6) supporting cells (7) frustoconical flat or concave bottom, provided in the center of frustoconical punches (10) fixed under a cover (8) covering the cells (7) which affect the shape of the section of the containers to be obtained.  8 - Mold according to claims 1, 3, 4 and 7, characterized in that the bottom of the cells (7) is shaped so as to reserve the protuberances allowing the assembly of several stacked containers, or adaptation to a container auxiliary.  9 - Mold according to claim 7, characterized in that the cells (7) are coated with a fatty release agent or a self-lubricating agent.  10 - Mold according to claims 1 and 7, characterized in that the cells (7) are replaced by disposable and / or degradable envelopes in aluminum or greaseproof paper.