DE3909318A1 - METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN ICE BODY WITH AT LEAST ONE INCLUSION - Google Patents

Abstract

In a process for making an ice body (10) from clear ice, with an inclusion (8), adequately cooled cooling bodies are placed in contact with a liquid to be solidified, e.g., water or drinkable liquids containing water. This can be done, for example, by immersing the cooling body in water. An ice body forms around the cooling body. When detached from the cooling body, it has a cavity on the base of which an inclusion (8) is arranged. The cavity if filled, e.g. with water, and cooled, which results in the formation of an ice body (10) with an inclusion (8). The process of the invention requires no additional supporting elements. In addition, these clear ice bodies can be thawed, joined together and refrozen to form complicated shapes in the form of animals or utility articles.

Description

The invention relates to a method for manufacturing an ice body according to at least one inclusion the preamble of claim 1.

According to the prior art, EP-PS 01 55 286 Objects made of ice, one or more decorative Inclusions spaced from the outer surface of the ice existing solid contain, known.

This document discloses a method in which a hollow mold filled with water immersed in a cold bath becomes. To achieve clear ice, the Cavity generated by air injection water movement. Now objects should be in the water to be solidified must be brought with additional hal terungselemente, for example clamps, wires or  the like in the later desired position in the still liquid water can be fixed so that it does not fold down to the bottom of the mold. Then there must be a time to be waited long until the cold bath facing wall of the hollow form a thin layer of ice has formed, which then the inclusion objects in one Partial freezes so that these inclusion objects their Cannot change location. Then everyone has to Bracket elements are removed, as otherwise in the inward progressing layer of ice would be closed. The removal of the bracket element Mente again requires a considerable amount of time expenditure. Accordingly, a procedure is developed in which the objects to be enclosed with additional help must be fixed in the desired position as time consuming and for large series production as not suitable.

This is also because the freezing process means Cold bath is extremely time consuming. As a result, it has known methods have only very limited meaning in At home where there are freezing periods of several days and complex manipulations can be tolerated.

This method also includes the inclusion of rivers liquids in the ice that forms.

The object of the present invention is therefore a To create procedures that involve the production of an conclusions of any type containing ice body Temperature reduction enables without additional stops tion elements for fixing the position of the inclusion ob to have to use objects.

This problem is solved by the character nenden features of claim 1.  

The use of a cooling surface, for example the wall of an evaporator whose temperature is below the freeze point of the liquid is lowered, the Choosing a variety of options, such as one Liquid which is converted into an ice body that should be brought into contact with the cooling surface can. For example, the usual and effec tive spray and spin processes such as z. B. from DE-PS 37 21 334 for the production of small ice bodies are known, used, or diving the contact between the liquid and the cooling surface to ensure that there is an ice body bil det.

According to claim 1 by using one in a Liquid immersed convex heat sink around this an ice body formed one of the shape of the heat sink pers corresponding cavity. In the cavity inclusions of any kind and, if desired, different states of matter without additional stops Rung elements are arranged by referring to the Shape of the heat sink end corresponding to the bottom of the he staring at liquid. The serves formed cavity for fixing the inclusion Ob jektes.

Furthermore, the use of a con vexen heat sink formed cooling surface by cooling of the liquid medium from the inside out that un desired gas inclusions, especially air inclusions, which lead to turbidity of the solidified medium, as far as possible be avoided so that a transparent, min however, at least a translucent solid results; if necessary, a movement of the liquid medium, in which the heat sink is immersed to reinforce the  Gas expulsion at the phase boundary between solids and liquid medium can be brought about, whereby the Transparency of the solid can be increased even further can.

Another advantage of forming the cooling surface on a convex heat sink lies in the fact that a variety of shapes of the heat sink and thus of the ice body formed thereon are possible, so that the ice bodies produced are the shapes of generally hollow, glass-analog commodities , or parts thereof, e.g. B. the goblet of a wine glass o . Ä., Have, the surface of the ice body facing the cooling surface is always dimensionally formed with the cooling surface.

Another advantage of the method according to the invention is based on the fact that the external limitation of the forming ice body varied by several parameters can be and thereby additional decorative and / or functional effects in terms of size, shape and Cavity can be achieved. For example the outer boundary of the ice body to be formed any hollow shape, through the shape and duration of exposure Heat sink, as well as by the thermal conductivity of the Liquid can be specified so that the invention Ice body with one or more inclusions in prak table of any geometric shape, e.g. B. in cube shape or in the form of a commodity can be.

The use of water has the advantage that ice cream per, which contain inclusions, for decorative cooling of edibles, for example seafood can be. Inclusions can also be included Ice body with a suitable size and depending on the type of  Inclusions also as optionally flavoring Coolants are used for drinks.

The measure of claim 2 that in a still free Space of the cavity a liquid is filled in which may also be degassed beforehand, leads when using the same liquid as derje from which the ice body containing the cavity per exists, and temperature decrease of the ice body too together with the inclusion and the filled liquid to a massively trained, its outer Be corresponding ice body, with included Objects. It forms on the previous one Solid / liquid phase boundary due to shape stabilization no run due to the outer surface of the heat sink layer and there can be disruptive light refractions in the area of this interface if necessary avoided the.

If, on the other hand, a liquid is used which is from the for the production of the ice body containing the cavity is different, and which, if necessary, degassed that can, this can be done by this measure closed object emphasized in a more advantageous manner will.

Furthermore, the fact that the filled liquid is not degassed after lowering the tem temperature below the freezing point of the filled rivers targeted cloudiness in the ice body at the point of the previous cavity.

The measures of claim 3 allow that several simple ice bodies to a new ice body be composed, on the one hand, the training more complex Ice bodies and / or the formation of heterogeneous solids per when other solid bodies are connected to the ice bodies will. On the other hand, the ge through the heat sink  formed cavity by adding another hard body, optionally after filling one or more Inclusions, closed to the environment, see above that the filling of the cavity with a liquid is unnecessary if this is from decorative and / or functional reasons is desired.

The measures described in claim 4 lead to Formation of solids of various shapes, from spherical to different elongated festivities body, which contain an inclusion that Air and / or one or more other inclusion Objects can exist. In addition, the cavity is through these measures enlarged, so that larger Objects can be included.

In the manner specified in claim 4, however, can also solidly filled solid together will.

The measures of claim 5 give the advantage that any utensils and / or ornaments, at for example for use in the upscale area Gastronomy, based on the model of glass or ceramic manufactured items such as glasses, bowls, trophies etc. by freezing a liquid, for example water made of ice, in particular clear ice are, always the upper facing the cooling surface surface of the ice body object, when using con vexer heat sink, the inside of the formed Ge objects made of ice or clear ice with the cooling surface is sustainable.

The measure of claim 6 has the advantage that the ice bodies formed from drinkable liquids objects enclosed therein are particularly good in life  middle range for both decorative and aroma tising purposes can be used.

A degassing of gases containing liquids, such as White lemonades or the like also leads to transparent solids, but without the essential ones individual flavoring characteristics of ver lost liquid.

The measures of claim 7 unfold as a result of Coloring a greater decorative effect, with the like ice bodies, especially when food coloring fabrics are used, also for cooling and / or Decoration of food or beverages used can be.

The measure of claim 8, an edible inclusion use has the advantage that in addition to the decorative Effect of such an inclusion, e.g. a drink has a taste or aroma gives refined edible insert.

The further measures of claim 8 have the front part that occur on a variety of in nature the objects for inclusion in one Ice body can be used, many of which these objects are edible and usually much better compatible with the human gastrointestinal tract are of synthetic origin.

The use of herbal products as inclusions has the advantage that here a variety of different Flavors e.g. B. fruit flavors and / or spice flavors natural origin is available. So at for example a fruit juice drink with an ice cream body from the liquid that matches the fruit juice, at  for example a fruit schnapps, fruit juice or also Water with the vegetable vegetable that matches the fruit juice Inclusion can be used.

The measures of claim 9 turn out to be particularly advantageous in that, for example, as rivers aromas or spices in an ice body can be brought and their contents after thawing of the ice body surrounding the inclusion closed liquid in the surrounding medium for example pouring into a drink and thereby enhances in a special way. With the drinking liquids for example, on a variety of alcoholic drinks beverages with which a lot can be used fold a flavoring effect of other drinks and Dishes can be reached.

The fact that the liquid to be enclosed a large greater density than the liquid with which the cavity is filled, it is achieved that the rivers liquid which fills the cavity with either liquid to be enclosed or if the liquid to be sealed was introduced first de, are covered with the filler liquid can.

The measures of claim 10 to increase the density of liquid inclusion sugar or its solution use have the advantage of sugar in large quantities is available and for example aqueous solutions in high concentration and thus high density are bar, so that an effective density increase spe Lighter liquids can be achieved.

The measures of claim 11 in particular together with those of claim 12 cause, for example  Inclusion liquids that are less dense than the filling liquid, first with a Paste off the liquid to be filled can be sealed, so that no mixing of the Top up liquid with the easier to enclose the liquid can occur.

This results in layer sequences of different inclusions enables the decorative value as well as the lot the range of flavoring options is increased.

Further advantages and features of the invention result from the following description of an embodiment for example based on the drawing.

It shows:

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through a water-filled container, immerse in the two rod-shaped heat sink.

FIG. 2 shows the container and the heat sink from FIG. 1 in a representation according to FIG. 1, but with a first ice body zone adhering to the heat sink and corresponding to the shape of the heat sink;

Fig. 3 in a representation according to Figure 1 fully ausgebil Dete ice body.

Fig. 4 in a representation according to Figure 1 an ice body after removing the heat sink.

Fig. 5 in a representation according to Figure 1, the formed ice body after arranging an inclusion;

Fig. 6 in a representation according to Figure 1, the formed ice body after filling a liquid speed in the cavity formed; and

Fig. 7 is a manufactured according to the inventive method, fully formed ice body made of clear ice with cherry as an inclusion in per perspective view.

Figure 8 is a side view of an assembled solid ice body.

Figure 9 is a sectional view of a composite elongated body of ice with a cavity and located therein inclusion.

Fig. 10 is a partially broken side view of a structure to be assembled into a decorative ice body with inclusion and steps, the structures to the left and right of the center line representing different embodiments.

According to the method illustrated by way of example in FIGS. 1-7, a container 1 made of food-grade material is filled with water as the liquid 2 and conventionally, preferably by direct evaporation, cooled, convex heat sink 3 , the cooling surface of which is in the form of a rod, at a sufficient distance the walls of the container 1 immersed in the water. Furthermore, the water in the container 1 is moved. The heat sinks 3 are then cooled far below 0 ° C, and as a result of the isotropic heat dissipation to the rod-shaped heat sinks 3 is formed around each heat sink 3 is a made up of ice or clear ice first ice layer 4, corresponding to the shape of the cooling body 3 formed as a rod. The use of the heat sink 3 and the movement of the water as the liquid 2 ensures that undesired gas inclusions, in particular air inclusions which lead to the clouding of the solidifying water as the liquid 2 , are largely avoided. The layer of ice 4 grows against the wall of the container 1 , so that over time more and more water solidifies into an ice body 5 made of clear ice with a cooling body 3 embodied as a rod. Once the desired size of the ice body 5 has been reached, the cooling bodies 3 with their ice bodies 5 adhering to them are lifted out of the moving water. After brief heating of the cooling body 3 of the ice body 5 melts in the range of the cooling body 3 slightly so that the frozen-on ice thereon body 5 can be easily detached by pulling or other technically be known measures. At the point at which the heat sink 3 was inserted into the ice body 5 , a cavity 6 corresponding to the shape of the heat sink 3 designed as a rod is now present, on the bottom 7 of which a cherry serving as an inclusion 8 is placed, so that the bottom 7 of the in the ice body 5 be sensitive cavity 6 and the cavity 6 itself is used for spatial fixation of the cherry used as inclusion 8 and thus no additional mounting elements are required to fix the inclusion 8 . Then the cherry in the cavity 6 is overlaid with water as filler liquid 9 and the ice body 5 in a suitable frame with its entire contents in the cavity 6 is exposed to a temperature never so urgent that the cavity 6 also fills water Ice solidifies and after a short period of time a fully formed ice body 10 made of clear ice is available, its inclusion 8 being formed by the cherry and its cavity 6 being closed off from the environment by a massive filling.

In Fig. 8 is 20 with an elongated ice body designated net, as it results when two of the previously described NEN ice body 10 with a cherry as inclusion 28 a and 28 b are briefly melted at their flat ends on a hot plate, then a Ice body 10 is added to the other ice body 10 in such a way that the planar ends of both ice bodies 10, wetted by melting with water, are connected with subsequent, further temperature reduction, since the liquid 2 solidifies to ice and thereby both original ice bodies 10 form a homogeneous ice body 20 made of clear ice with two cherries as inclusions 28 a and 28 b , firmly connected to each other. Line 27 is intended to indicate the ice body / ice body interface before the two ice bodies 10 are joined together . The use of a hot plate for thawing the ice body also has the effect that any unevenness on the ice body to be connected is compensated for by the surface. This is particularly necessary if other methods, e.g. B. spray and centrifugal processes for the production of ice bodies 10 , in particular those made of clear ice can be used.

With the method according to the invention, oblong-shaped ice bodies 5 with cavities 6 located therein can be produced. Are now such ice bodies 5 at their flat ends on a hot plate o . Ä. Briefly melted or wetted with water as liquid 2 and joined together with their flat ends so that the openings of their cavities 6 lie on top of one another, and then cooled again, so that a rod-shaped ice body 30 , in the example of ice and / or clear ice as shown in FIG. 9. Line 37 is intended to indicate the ice body / ice body interface before the two ice bodies 5 join together. In this drive the cavity 6 of each individual ice body 5 is closed by the fact that two ice bodies 5 are added to one another in such a way that the openings of their cavities 6 are placed one on top of the other so that a larger cavity 36 is closed off from the environment in the ice body 30 forms.

In the cavity 36 can, if desired, an inclusion are introduced 38 by space in at least one hollow 6 of the ice body is introduced 5 before joining an inclusion 38, the other blend after Anein and connecting the ice body 5 in the larger cavity 36 is located, but air alone can also serve as an inclusion.

If the end of the heat sink 3 forms hemispherical, hemispherical bodies can be formed from clear ice. Two such hemispheres are melted, joined together and then cooled again, resulting in a spherical ice body with a cavity which is also sealed off from the environment and into which an inclusion can be introduced if necessary.

With a heat sink that mushrooms at its lower end is shaped, can also bowl-shaped ice cream body are made. From several such and on their ice body shapes can then after the Schmelsch zen, joining and cooling again any Ice body shapes can be linked together.

Fig. 10 shows such a composite ice body 40 , the pedestal-shaped ice body part 45 has a cavity 46 with the bottle contained therein as an inclusion 48 and an ice body 55 as a bowl-shaped foot.

The left embodiment of the pedestal-shaped ice body 45 shown in FIG. 10 of the composite ice body 40 has a projection 100 . This ent stands in that the heat sink 3 with the ice body 45 adhering to it after the desired ice thickness has been reached is largely pulled out of the water and then only the area of the ice body 45 still in the water is formed by the only ice-forming cold there forms concentric, step-shaped projection 100 in the exemplary embodiment. After reaching the desired thickness of the projection 100 , the ice body is completely removed from the water, the ice body 45 is detached from the heat sink 3 , so that a sockelförmi ger ice body 45 with cavity 46 and step-shaped projection 100 is formed.

The right-hand embodiment of the pedestal-shaped ice body 45 shown in FIG. 10 of the composite ice body 40 has a projection 200 with differing thicknesses. This over the entire vertical loading area of the projection 200 of FIG. 10 from bottom to top varying thickness of the projection 200 arises from the fact that after reaching the desired total thickness of the ice body 45 this is also largely pulled out of the water to be frozen and then the lower, still immersed in the water area of the ice body 45 is so slowly pulled out of the water that depending on the speed of removal from the water, a differently thick but continuous projection 200 is formed.

It is also conceivable to have several of these before jumps in different thicknesses among each other or to train each other.

Of course, this advantageous approach has projections 100 , 200 to train also independently of inclusions in an ice body meaning, z. B. as a method for the aesthetic design of ice bodies of any kind.

The ice body 10 , 20 , 30 , 40 made of clear ice produced by the method according to the invention are packaged in the desired quantities and stored at low temperatures. For shipping complex Eiskör per-structures can also be in several individual parts, which are so Herge that they z. B. suitable pin / hole connec tions, are packed so that the complete ice body figure, for example made of ice or clear ice, can be put together by the customer in the manner of a kit.

Such ice bodies 10 , 20 , 30 , 40 made of ice and / or clear ice can be manufactured in large series.

For the production of complex ice body structures, such as such as animal or human figures made of clear ice, possibly with one or more inclusions, may indicate patent applications of the same applicant with the same chem filing date is 11H005162 and the title "Process for making ice figures" as well as with the legal number 11H005172 and the Ti tel "Process for producing an ice body with we at least refer to an inclusion body "and fully be referenced.

Claims (12)

1. A process for producing an ice body with at least one inclusion, in which the inclusion is introduced into water or a drinkable liquid containing water and is enclosed by solidification of the liquid, characterized in that
the liquid ( 2 ) is brought into contact with a cooling surface, the temperature of which is below the solidification point of the liquid ( 2 ), so that an ice layer ( 4 , 84 ) growing away from the cooling surface forms on the cooling surface; and that
the cooling surface is formed on a convex heat sink ( 3 ) and the ice body ( 5 ) formed around it is detached from the heat sink ( 3 ); and
that the inclusion (8) introduced into the damage caused by the heat sink (3) cavity (6) and the cavity (6) is closed to the environment. 2. The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized records that the cavity relative to the environment  is concluded by the fact that the free space with drinkable liquid fills and then the temperature so far is lowered that the replenished liquid if solidified, so that there is a single piece of ice body forms. 3. The method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the cavity by An melt or wet its edge with liquid speed and adding at least one other ice cream pers and / or solid and holding or lowering the temperature of the ice bodies below the solidification point of the liquid compared to the environment is completed so that a compound Body is formed, which besides ice also other May contain solid material. 4. The method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that to complete the Cavity of the ice body relative to the environment other ice body is used, which also has a cavity, the cavities in front preferably thereby abge compared to the environment be concluded that the two ice bodies with the Openings of their cavities placed on top of each other and be connected together so that a together set ice body with one opposite the um closed cavity is created. 5. The method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the ice body has the shape of everyday items such as glasses, bowls, etc. having. 6. The method according to any one of the preceding claims,  characterized in that as water-containing Liquid such is used which is made up of is selected from the group: schnapps, liqueurs, white ne, beers, fruit juices, lemonades and mixed drinks, the liquid being degassed if necessary. 7. The method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the liquid with coloring substances, in particular food coloring substances is added. 8. The method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that edible inclusions, especially those of biological origin, preferably wise herbal products such as fruits and / or Flowers and / or leaves and / or barks and / or parts of it are used. 9. The method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that as an inclusion Liquid, especially a drinking liquid is used, the liquid being a density has, which preferably over that of Liquid is lying. 10. The method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that to increase the density of liquid used as inclusion sugar or whose solution is used. 11. The method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that pastes, in particular Food pastes. 12. The method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that as an inclusion  Layer sequence of different inclusions used becomes.