IP Library Granted Patent US 7,005,153
Granted Patent B1
US 7,005,153 · App. 09/675,671 · Granted Feb 28, 2006

Method of producing laminated food and a device thereof and laminated cheese food thereby produced

Assignee: Snow Brand Milk Products Co., LTD.
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Patent No.
US 7,005,153
App. No.
09/675,671
Granted
Feb 28, 2006
Kind
B1
Abstract

Fluid food materials which solidify when cooled are quantitatively supplied successively at a certain thickness in a plate form on cooling and carrying sides; of two cooling and carrying devices, cooled while being carried to form two monolayer platy food materials, and the two platy food materials are bonded and united making use of the surface not yet completely cooled and solidified of the monolayer platy food materials, and thereby producing a layered laminated cheese food and the like consisting of two layers. In order to obtain a three-or-more-layer laminated structure, the fluid food materials which solidify when cooled are quantitatively supplied successively at a certain thickness in a plate form on the cooling and carrying sides of the cooling and carrying devices, cooled while being carried to form monolayer platy food materials, or if necessary, more fluid food materials which solidify when cooled are quantitatively supplied successively at a certain thickness in a plate form over the platy food materials, cooled while being carried, thereby forming multilayer platy food materials, and/or the platy food materials are bonded and united to form multilayer platy food materials, and the fluid food materials are quantitatively supplied successively between the two monolayer and/or multilayer platy food materials in order to unite the two platy food materials and the fluid food materials comprising the layers between the two platy food materials.

Claims (11)

1. A laminated cheese food, comprising:

a multilayer structure produced by piling a plurality of laminated cheese foods, each of said plurality of laminated cheese foods of the multilayer structure having at least three layers, the at least three layers including:

two external layers of platy food material containing cheese, and having inherent releasability from external layers of adjoining ones of the plurality of laminated cheese foods when piled; and

an intermediate layer of platy food material, wherein the intermediate layer may be formed of a plurality of intermediate layers of platy food material which inherently bond together, the intermediate layer being disposed between and being inherently capable of bonding to the two external layers of platy food material,

wherein each of the plurality of laminated cheese foods of the multilayer structure is releasable from the adjoining ones of the plurality of laminated cheese foods of the multilayer structure.

2. The laminated cheese food according to claim 1 , wherein the platy food material in the intermediate layer is cheese different from the cheese contained in the platy food material in the external layers in type or colour tone, or is cheese having higher maturity, more water or fat, thus being softer, or having lower pH, than the cheese contained in the platy food materials in the external layers.

3. The laminated cheese food according to claim 1 , wherein the platy food materials in the intermediate layer contain foods other than cheese which are in a liquid, paste, powdery, solid, or fibrous state.

4. The laminated cheese food according to claim 1 , wherein:

the platy food materials in at least one of the external layers or the intermediate layer contain additives or raw materials for adjusting colour tone, and

the colour tones of the platy food materials in the external layers or the intermediate layer are the same or different.

5. A laminated cheese food package according of to claim 1 the package being formed by wrapping the multilayer structure produced by piling said plurality of laminated cheese foods, each of said plurality of laminated cheese foods having said at least three layers.

Assignments (2)
MERGER Recorded Dec 6, 2011
From: SNOW BRAND MILK PRODUCTS CO., LTD.
To: MEGMILK SNOW BRAND CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 027341/0653 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 6, 2001
From: SHIBAUCHI, YOSHITO; KONDO, HIROSHI; AOYAMA, HIROSHI; GODA, MASAYUKI
To: SNOW BRAND MILK PRODUCTS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 011959/0940 →
Priority Claims (3)
JP 11-276280 · Sep 29, 1999 · national
JP 2000-278540 · Sep 13, 2000 · national
JP 2000-278623 · Sep 13, 2000 · national