Rotating Conical Mold Pastry Deposition Apparatus
Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods cannot form pastry cones from preparations with specific rheological properties that allow extrusion but become rigid upon baking, limiting the use of meringue or similar preparations.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method using a rotating plate, cone holder, and guide means to deposit a preparation around a conical mould, allowing continuous and contiguous turns or generatrix lines to form a hollow cone, suitable for meringue or similar preparations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If pastry is rolled out and cut to form thin strips, then cones can be made from puff pastry or shortcrust pastry, but this method cannot be used for meringue or preparations with specific rheological properties
Solution Approach 1:
The invention changes the fundamental parameters of the pastry formation process by transitioning from rolling and cutting methods to extrusion and deposition methods. This allows the same apparatus to handle different pastry types including meringue, puff pastry, and shortcrust pastry by simply adjusting the extrusion parameters and deposition pattern, rather than requiring different manufacturing approaches for each pastry type.
2Adaptability or versatility
If wafer discs are baked and then wound around a conical mould, then cones can be formed, but this requires high dexterity and cannot accommodate preparations with extrudable rheological properties
Solution Approach 1:
The invention replaces the manual mechanical operation of winding wafer discs around a conical mould with an automated extrusion and deposition system. The apparatus uses a conical mould that receives extruded pastry material directly, eliminating the need for operator dexterity in manual winding operations while accommodating preparations with extrudable rheological properties.
3Productivity
If preparation is deposited in continuous and contiguous turns around the conical mould, then hollow cones with circular directrix are formed efficiently, but the apparatus complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The invention employs a conical mould with a specific curved geometry that guides the extruded pastry material into continuous and contiguous turns. The curved surface of the conical mould naturally forms the desired hollow cone shape with circular directrix, achieving high productivity through the geometric design rather than complex mechanical mechanisms.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is an apparatus for making a pastry in the shape of a cone, including a base carrying a plate, a cone holder removably mounted on the plate, at least one conical mold removably mounted on the cone holder, and a guide to guide a tool for depositing a preparation intended forming the pastry. The guide and cone holder are arranged so the depositing tool and the conical mold move with respect to each other to deposit, on the mold, the preparation to become the pastry to obtain at least one cone of the preparation formed around the conical mold. Also disclosed are equipment including the apparatus and the depositing tool, a method for making a pastry in the shape of a cone from a preparation intended to become the pastry by using the apparatus or the equipment, as well as the pastry in the shape of a cone.