Patent ID: 6033702
Filing Date: 2000-03-07
Classification: A23G

Abstract:
A method of applying drystuff particles on edible ice domes, comprising the steps of:pressing down domes against a resiliently depressable support carrying a layer of drystuff particles, said support being a spherical membrane of a size of the same magnitude as the size of the domes;maintaining a drystuff particle filling in a space around the spherical membrane at a level above a bottom surface surrounding a lower end of the membrane which is up to just above a top of the membrane in a freely upstanding position thereof;effecting said pressing down of the domes by a relative movement of the domes with respect to the bottom surface, dipping the domes into the particle filling while producing a pressure deformation of the spherical membrane from said freely upstanding position thereof;effecting a relative pushing up of a local carrier means of the lower end of the membrane relative to the bottom surface, in synchronism with the dipping of the domes, causing an upper edge of the membrane to be maintained underneath a top surface of the particle filling.