AU732480B2 - Sweet-toy - Google Patents

Description

la Sweet-toy

DESCRIPTION

The invention relates to a sweet-toy including a plurality of layers.

There are sweet toys available which include individual, separate layers, the uppermost and the lowermost layers consist of a foamed sugar member having a rounded shape and intermediate layers consist of fruit gum layers and the like.

The invention is based on the object of simplifying a sweet-toy without losing the pleasant optical impression.

15 According to one aspect ofthis invention there is provided a sweet-toy including at least four poured layers made of edible foam mass or fruit gum, %I which layers are arranged substantially parallel and adjacent to each other and o are kept in position and pressed against one another by means of a cover of transparent packaging, wherein two outer layers are made of foam mass and 20 wherein four layers form two pairs of two layers, each pair consisting of a first layer of foam mass or fruit gum and a second layer of foam mass and each first and second layer of a pair being joined together inseparably by direct bonding of the foam mass to the first layer.

S 25 According to another aspect of the invention there is provided a process for producing a sweet-toy including the following steps: stamping pouring moulds into a layer of compressed cornflower for a first layer of a sweet mass, pouring sweet mass, in particular fruit gum mass, for a first layer into the pouring molds, pouring a second layer, namely foam mass, onto the freshly oL/oured, not yet cooled sweet mass of the first layer to form an inseparable pair qa first and a second layer, powdering said pairs after their joined cooling, assembling of at least two of said pairs to a sweet-toy in such a way that each time at least two of said pairs are fixed to one another by means of a transparent packaging with two foam layers forming outer layers.

The invention will be described in further detail by way of the examples shown in the drawings, in which: Fig. 1 shows a sweet-toy with five layers in a pulled apart position (partial fig. a) and in wrapped position (partial fig. b); W:\tonia\BF\Spedi52215-98.doc WO 98/17122 PCT/DE97/02400 -3- Fig. 2 shows a sweet-toy with five layers where two intermediate layers are poured together; Fig. 3 shows a sweet-toy with six layers; Fig. 4 shows a double layer part of a sweet-toy, where foam mass is poured onto a fish-shaped bottom part; Fig. 5 shows a double layer part of a sweet-toy, where a disc-shaped foam mass is poured onto a rod-shaped base member; Fig. 6 shows a considerably simplified illustration of the principle of the sweet-toy's production process according to the present invention or parts thereof.

The sweet-toy 1 illustrated in Fig. 1 consists of five layers (A the layers A, B and the layers D, E are components of double layer parts 4; 13, 14), the layer C is a single disc of foamed sugar. The diameter of the foamed sugar layers A, C and E project in radial direction over the diameters of the fruit gum layers B and D. With respect to the center line of the single layer slice 2 the double layer parts 3 and 4 are situated symmetrically opposite each other.

Fig. 2 also shows a sweet-toy 11 having five layers, however, here the middle part 12 and part 13 consist of double layers, whereas bottom part 14 only consists of one layer.

In its essential parts the embodiment illustrated in Fig. 3 is similar to that in Fig. 2 and also has the same reference numbers, however, the radius of the different layers is different to the radius of those in Fig. 2.

WO 98/17122 PCT/DE97/02400 -4- Fig. 4 shows a round foamed sugar layer 31 which is poured onto a fish shaped fruit gum layer 30. Therefore the foamed sugar layer 31 freely projects over the upper and lower edge of the fruit gum layer 30. However, the head and tail end of the fish element shaped of the fruit gum layer 30 project over the periphery of the foamed sugar layer 31.

This pouring process is interesting insofar, as pouring of double layer parts is achieved in a pouring process immediately following one another, whereas a dome-shaped cap of foamed sugar having a bigger radius than the cross-section of the previously poured forms is poured onto the not yet cooled fruit gum mass. Therefore the spherical cap of foamed sugar projects over the stamped mold and lies as is shown clearly in Fig. 6 with its bottom sides 21 on the surface areas 20 of the base's cornflour layer adjacent to the mold 15 stamped in cornflour and hardens there.

The structure of the sweet toy illustrated in Fig. 5 essentially complies with that of Fig. 4, however, shape and dimension of the fruit gum layer 30 in Fig. 4 vary.

The cover embodied as transparent packaging 40 is only shown in Fig. 1 b. In order to keep the individual parts/layers of the sweet-toy in shape it is also employed in the case of the embodiments shown in figures 2 to Fig. 6 shows a considerably simplified illustration of the principle of the production, for example of the double layer middle part 12 of the sweet-toy in Fig. 2. Here, the sweet mass, for example fruit gum mass, is poured into a prepared pouring mold 15, which in the case of a sweet mass in the form of fruit gum can consist of compressed cornflour.

Thus a sweet mass layer or, for example, fruit gum layer 30 is formed. In the following a second layer, in particular consisting of foam mass, is poured onto the freshly poured, in particular not yet cooled sweet mass of the first layer. Thus a second layer, for example foam layer 31, joined to the first layer, for example fruit gum layer 30, is formed.

After cooling down of the joined parts the double layer member is powdered and WO 98/17122 PCT/DE97/02400 assembled into a sweet-toy having at least four layers by means of further double layer form members. After that the two double layer form members can be fixed by means of a transparent packaging 40 (see Fig. Ib). Foam layer 31 can be poured in the most different forms, for example shaped as a disc or a dome-shaped cap, and in the most different colors and/or tastes.

Claims (6)

1. A sweet-toy including at least four poured layers made of edible foam mass or fruit gum, which layers are arranged substantially parallel and adjacent to each other and are kept in position and pressed against one another by means of a cover of transparent packaging, wherein two outer layers are made of foam mass and wherein four layers form two pairs of two layers, each pair consisting of a first layer of foam mass or fruit gum and a second layer of foam mass and each first and second layer of a pair being joined together inseparably by direct bonding of the foam mass to the first layer.

2. A sweet-toy according to claim 1, wherein a fifth layer is made of foam mass and is arranged as one outer layer. go 15

3. A sweet-toy according to claim 1, wherein a fifth layer is made of foam mass or fruit gum and is arranged between the two pairs of two layers.

4. A process for producing a sweet-toy including the following steps: stamping pouring moulds into a layer of compressed cornflower 20 for a first layer of a sweet mass, S: pouring sweet mass, in particular fruit gum mass, for a first layer into the pouring molds, pouring a second layer, namely foam mass, onto the freshly poured, not yet cooled sweet mass of the first layer to form an inseparable pair of a first and a second layer, powdering said pairs after their joined cooling, assembling of at least two of said pairs to a sweet-toy in such a way that each time at least two of said pairs are fixed to one another by means of a transparent packaging with two foam layers forming outer layers. A sweet-toy substantially as herein before described and illustrated.

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6. A process for producing a sweet-toy substantially as herein before described and illustrated. DATED: 19 February 2001 PHILLIPS ORMONDE FITZPATRICK Attorneys for: MEDERER GmbH *o