Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Processes – Applying indicia or ornamentation – or the treatment of...
Reexamination Certificate
1999-09-07
2001-06-05
Brouillette, Gabrielle (Department: 1761)
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Processes
Applying indicia or ornamentation, or the treatment of...
C426S087000, C426S104000, C099S450100
Reexamination Certificate
active
06242026
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND—FIELD OF INVENTION
This invention relates to personalizing and or decorating food products.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Traditionally, cakes carry messages. For the nature of hot foods, including pizza, was believed not adaptable for carrying congratulatory or decorative messages. Pizza has become a highly popular food item. Its popularity has spread to the use in festive occasions such as birthdays, anniversaries, holidays and other occasions. The present invention overcomes the problem of placing decorative congratulatory messages in a manner that is uniform and does not require relatively any more time than it takes to produce a food product such as a pizza pie.
Although products and methods have been developed to offer decorative messages, to shape dough and to cook food products such as pizza, none of these inventions are unique in the sense that they can offer a personalized decorative edible product in relatively the same amount of time it takes to produce a conventional food product. For instance, U.S. Pat. No. 4,605,579 to Michael Aremeno discloses a decorative heat retaining pizza cover. It is stated in the background of this patent that the nature of pizza does not render it adaptable for carrying congratulatory or decorative messages.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,243,899 to M. W. Moshier and associates discloses a method for uniformity of pizza tops assuring uniformity of pizzas made by different employees.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,159,349 to Caiello discloses a pizza and method that uses up to four geometrically congruent slices of pizza cheese having apertures. The slices are arranged to form one layer to cover the pizza shell.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,997,670 discloses a method for coating frozen cheese in a particulate free flowing condition. Modification of taste and functional properties of the cheeses is obtained by applying coatings to the outer sides of the cheese particles. The coatings can be applied so as to encapsulate the individual granules.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,832,973 to Ramserar discloses a process for producing characters or symbols on cheese and cheese products by discoloration with a thermal action. Basically it is a branding process.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,315,922 to Keller discloses a table top baking oven particularly for pizza or the like that provides both top and bottom heating of baked goods.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,789,009 to Kordic discloses methods that shape dough in a mold that will raise edges to make more crust. It is claimed that “fanciful or geometric arrangements” of raised crust with the toppings in between can be made. This seems quite time consuming getting the sauce, cheese and other toppings neatly in to the grooves of the “fanciful or geometric arrangements”.
OBJECTS AND ADVANTAGES
Accordingly, the advantage of my invention is:
(a) it is simple to produce personalized hot food products;
(b) it is simple to produce decorative hot food products;
(c) it is simple produce a decorative personalized hot food product;
(d) to provide a colorful hot food
(e) it is easy to use
(f) different workers can produce the same, uniform product time and time again;
(g) to create the product in relatively the same amount of time it takes to produce a product without designs or being personalized;
(h) to provide amusement and enjoyment for the eater.
Still further objects and advantages will become apparent from a consideration of the ensuing description and drawings.
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Brouillette Gabrielle
Daverman Sherry A.
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