Multi-purpose food preparation kit

US8525087B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• NESTEC S.A. · CH

Inventors

• Derek J. Romeo · Grayslake, US
• Paul Andrew Cogley · Gurnee, US
• Amy Lynn Matusheski · Gurnee, US
• Keith Eric Petrofsky · Round Lake, US
• Peter Privert · Naperville, US
• Uraiwan Tangprasertchai · Barrington, US
• Steven Greiner · Mundelein, US
• Neil Darin · Grayslake, US
• Joseph R. Brooks · Sterling Heights, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 25, 2011
• Grant date: Sep 3, 2013
• Expiry date: Jun 13, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65D2585/366
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Multi-purpose food preparation kits for foods which include dough, at least a portion of which is exposed for cooking, browning, and crisping, and optionally rising. The kits include a support base of susceptor material elevated above a support surface by an elevator member either incorporated with a base or separate therefrom. Kits further include a ring component of susceptor material which surrounds the food product, and which is dimensioned larger than the initial dimensions of the food product, so as to be spaced therefrom, at least initially, prior to cooking The space inside the ring component allows the dough to rise during cooking without obstruction by the susceptor ring and without imparting thermal energy from the susceptor ring to the dough surface. In one embodiment the susceptor base it provided in the form of a shipping carton.