JP3239949U - pictured food - Google Patents

Abstract

A general-purpose ink-jet printer is used to provide food with letters and patterns on it, in addition to the rounded flat areas of the food such as bread and steamed buns. A first dough (22a, 22b, for example, melonpan biscuit dough) and a second dough (for example, melonpan dough) or ingredients are included, and the first dough (22a) is formed into a flat shape and baked or steamed. First, characters and patterns are printed on the first dough with a food printing machine, and after shaping the second dough or ingredients into a three-dimensional food shape so as to wrap the first dough 22b, the patterned food is baked or steamed. is created. Since the first fabric is formed in a flat shape, characters and patterns can be easily printed on the first fabric by the jet printer 10, which is a general-purpose food printing machine. [Selection drawing] Fig. 2

Description

Applied mutatis mutandis to Article 30, Paragraph 2 of the Patent Law, which applies mutatis mutandis to Article 11 of the Utility Model Law Exhibited at FOOMA JAPAN 2022 / International Food Industry Exhibition held at Tokyo Big Sight on June 7, 2022 Exhibited at FABEX Kansai 2022 / Kansai Dessert, Sweets & Bakery Exhibition held at Index Osaka on September 7 Sold at Inoue Department Store Main Store on August 27, 2022

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to food products with patterns printed by a food printing machine.

BACKGROUND ART In recent years, there have been many foods with patterns such as letters or characters or floral patterns on the surface of sweets such as cookies, chocolates, rice crackers and candies, and fruits such as apples, pears and bananas. By attaching these characters and patterns, it is expected that the food can be enjoyed more and the eating habits can be improved. For this reason, many technologies have been proposed for precisely printing foods with edible ink.

Patent Literature 1 proposes using a transparent edible sheet as a base material, printing a design or the like on the surface of the base material with edible ink, and attaching this to food such as confectionery. Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2002-200000 proposes to directly print scenery, pictures, figures, characters, etc. on the skin of monaka with an ink-jet printer. In Patent Document 3, like apples, a wax film is formed on the surface of the pericarp as days pass after harvesting, and it is easily repelled by water-soluble edible ink, and even if it cannot be printed cleanly, an edible base layer is formed. is formed, and an edible color display layer is formed thereon to enable clear printing. Further, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2002-200003 discloses a general-purpose inkjet printer that can adjust the distance between the inkjet printer and the object to be printed so that the inkjet printer can print even on thick articles such as food. In Patent Document 5, as a method for fixing edible ink to the surface of food, it is proposed to form three layers of a base layer, a decorative layer and a protective layer.

JP-A-9-171 Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2005-230003 JP 2013-132213 A JP 2016-057662 A JP 2017-29033 A

However, in the case of foods with large differences in height, such as three-dimensionally round bread and buns, the reach of the ink ejected by the inkjet printer is limited in areas where characters and patterns can be printed directly on the food. is limited to flat areas of the food. For this reason, when printing characters and patterns on rounded foods such as bread and steamed buns with an inkjet printer, there is a problem that it is impossible to print on rounded portions other than flat regions. Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2002-201001 proposes that even in the middle of a bale shape, it is possible to print even in a rounded area by rotating the head of an inkjet printer and the middle of the bale shape, which is an object to be printed. However, the feasibility of this is questionable. Even if such an inkjet printer were developed, it would have to be in a special form, and it would be difficult to make it a general-purpose inkjet printer.

The present invention uses a general-purpose inkjet printer, rather than a special inkjet printer as in Patent Document 2, to print characters and patterns on areas other than the rounded flat areas of food.

For many years, the inventor of the present invention has studied how to attach characters and patterns to foods, and has always wondered whether it is possible to directly print characters and patterns on round, three-dimensional foods. One day, he saw the manufacturing process of melon bread and came up with the idea.
Melon bread is made by placing a flat biscuit dough on top of the dough and baking it, resulting in a sweet and crunchy outside and a fluffy inside. The finished melonpan is rounded, so a jet printer cannot print letters or patterns on the flat part. However, if characters and patterns are printed on the flat biscuit dough with an inkjet printer, the characters and patterns can be printed on the entire biscuit dough without any problems. After that, the melon-pan dough is wrapped in a biscuit dough printed with characters and patterns, and when baked, the bread is swollen into a round shape, and a melon-pan with characters and patterns drawn on the entire bread can be produced.

The invention of claim 1 includes a first dough and a second dough or ingredients, the first dough is formed into a flat shape, characters and patterns are printed on the first dough by a food printing machine, and the second dough or It is characterized in that it is prepared by baking or steaming after shaping the ingredients into a three-dimensional food shape so as to wrap the ingredients in the first dough.

In the invention of claim 1, since the first fabric is formed in a flat shape, characters and patterns can be easily printed on the first fabric by a jet printer, which is a general-purpose food printing machine. After shaping the food into a three-dimensional food shape so as to wrap the second dough or ingredients with the first dough, by baking or steaming, letters and patterns are printed on the whole even on the round three-dimensional food. can be done.

The invention of claim 2 is the invention of claim 1, characterized in that the characters and patterns printed by the food printing machine have a protective layer for preventing bleeding due to moisture and elution of edible ink. .

According to the invention of claim 2, even when the first dough is steamed or boiled, bleeding of the edible ink due to moisture can be suppressed, and clearer characters and patterns can be maintained.

The invention of claim 3 is characterized in that the first dough is frozen.

According to the idea of claim 3, a large amount of letters and patterns are printed on the first dough in advance by a food printing machine, and this is frozen and stored, and the frozen-preserved first dough is distributed to food dealers and stores nationwide. If the food is delivered, each food trader or store can sell the food with letters or patterns without printing on the food independently.

The invention of claim 4 is characterized in that the first dough is biscuit and the second dough is bread dough.

According to the invention of claim 4, characters and patterns can be printed on the rounded melon bread that is the basis of the invention.

The invention of claim 5 is characterized by having only the first dough without the second dough or ingredients.

According to the invention of claim 5, characters and patterns can be printed on foods such as rice cakes and bread that do not have a second dough or ingredients.

The invention of claim 6 is characterized in that the first dough on which characters and patterns are printed by a food printing machine is frozen.

According to the invention of claim 6, the same effect as that of the invention of claim 3 can be expected for foods that do not have a second dough or ingredients like rice cakes.

As described above, since the present invention prints characters and patterns on a flat cloth, the edible ink is evenly irradiated compared to printing directly on round three-dimensional foods, resulting in clear characters and patterns. A pattern can be printed. In addition, by printing letters and patterns on a large amount of the first dough and freezing it, if the frozen-preserved first dough is delivered to food dealers and retail stores nationwide, each food dealer and retail store can sell food with letters and patterns without printing on the food independently.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing how characters and patterns are printed on a melonpan 21 by a food printing machine, especially an inkjet printer 10. FIG. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing how characters and patterns are printed on a thin, flat melon-pan biscuit dough 22a by the inkjet printer 10. FIG. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing how a printed melon-pan biscuit dough 22b is formed to wrap a melon-pan dough 23 (second dough) to create a whole patterned melon-pan dough 22c. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing how characters and patterns are printed on a flat manju dough 24a by the inkjet printer 10. FIG. It is a figure which shows a mode that ingredients 30, such as cream, bean paste, meat, and vegetables, are wrapped in the printed manju dough 24b, and the whole patterned manju dough 24c is created. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing how characters and patterns are printed on a flat mochi cloth 25a by the inkjet printer 10; It is a figure which shows a mode that the cloth|dough 25c of the whole mochi with a pattern is produced by rounding the cloth|dough 25b of the printed mochi.

EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION Hereinafter, the form for implementing this invention is demonstrated based on drawing.

FIG. 1 shows how characters and patterns are printed on a rounded food product, such as melon bread 21, by a food printing machine, especially an inkjet printer 10. As shown in FIG. A melon bread 21 to be printed is placed on a tray 12 of an inkjet printer 10, and the tray 12 is adjusted to a position within a range where edible ink 11 ejected by an inkjet printer head can reach. However, since the range where the edible ink 11 ejected by the inkjet printer head reaches is limited, in the case of a rounded food such as melon bread 21, the rounded area other than the planar portion may not be edible. Since the ink 11 does not reach and scatters, clear printing cannot be performed.
Therefore, in the present invention, the dough is flattened before being molded into a food, characters and patterns are printed thereon, the dough is shaped, baked or steamed to complete the food with characters and patterns. It was to be. It should be noted that steaming here means to include actions such as boiling and simmering to complete food.
Further, when characters and patterns are printed on a flat cloth and the cloth is shaped into a circle, the characters and patterns are naturally distorted. In this case, in order to correct the distortion of characters and patterns using a mathematical mapping technique, it is conceivable to print distorted characters and patterns in advance on a flat fabric.

FIG. 2 shows how the inkjet printer 10 prints characters and patterns on a thin flat first dough, for example, a melon-pan biscuit dough. First, a flat melon-pan biscuit dough 22a (first dough) is made. This is placed on a tray 12 of an inkjet printer 10, the position and height are adjusted, desired characters and patterns are printed on the flat melon-pan biscuit dough 22a, and a printed melon-pan biscuit dough 22b is prepared. In this way, since the flat melon-pan biscuit dough 22a has a thin and flat shape, characters and patterns can be printed on the entire flat melon-pan biscuit dough 22a without any problem, unlike round food. .

Next, as shown in FIG. 3, the printed flat melon-pan biscuit dough 22b is shaped so as to wrap the melon-pan dough 23 (second dough) to form a whole melon-pan dough 22c. The batter 22c of the entire melon bread can be baked to complete the patterned melon bread. Here, melon bread is exemplified as a suitable one, but the invention is not limited to melon bread, and can be applied to other foods composed of first dough and second dough.

Even if the first fabric is not thin as in the first embodiment, but is formed in a flat shape with a certain thickness, the inkjet printer 10 can adjust the height of the tray 12, so the invention can be applied. A specific example of this is manju with ingredients such as cream, bean paste, meat, and vegetables. FIG. 4 shows how characters and patterns are printed on a steamed bun using a steamed bun dough as the first dough.

First, a flat manju dough 24a is made. This is put on the tray 12 of the ink jet printer 10, and the position and height are adjusted. Characters and patterns are printed on a flat manju dough 24a by an inkjet printer 10 to create a printed manju dough 24b. In this way, the flat bun dough 24a can be printed with characters and patterns on the entire flat bun dough 24a without problems, unlike the rounded dough, and the characters and patterns are printed. A manju dough 24b can be created.

Next, as shown in FIG. 5, ingredients 30 such as cream, bean paste, meat, and vegetables are wrapped in a manju dough 24b printed with characters and patterns to form a patterned manju dough 24c. The patterned bun 24c is baked or steamed to complete the patterned bun. Here, an example of steamed buns is shown, but the present invention can be applied to foods including ingredients such as first dough and cream, bean paste, meat, vegetables, etc., such as curry bread and monaka, regardless of steamed buns.
However, in the case of food to be prepared by steaming, characters and patterns are printed on the flat manju dough 24a with the inkjet printer 10 before steaming to prepare the food dough, and the food dough is steamed. In some cases, the print may blur, so it is desirable to form a protective layer for fixing the edible ink 11 before steaming. The protective layer is preferably made of a material that does not dissolve in a liquid consisting only of water, and is preferably made of a shellac-based material.

Examples of foods that do not have ingredients such as second dough, cream, bean paste, meat, and vegetables include rice cakes. These can also be printed with characters and patterns according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 shows how characters and patterns are printed on rice cakes, which are foods made of only the first dough without the second dough or ingredients. First, a flat rice cake dough 25a is made. This is placed on a tray 12 of an inkjet printer 10, the position and height are adjusted, desired characters and patterns are printed on a flat mochi cloth 25a, and a printed mochi cloth 25b is produced. In this way, the flat mochi dough 25a can be printed with characters and patterns on the entire flat mochi dough 25a without any problem, unlike round food, and the printed mochi dough 25b can be can be created. Next, as shown in FIG. 7, the printed mochi cloth 25b is rounded to form a mochi cloth 25c for the entire patterned mochi.
Here, an example of rice cake is shown, but the present invention can be applied to foods without ingredients such as second dough such as bread, cookies, and biscuits, or cream, bean paste, meat, and vegetables, regardless of the type of rice cake.

According to the present invention, if characters and patterns are printed on a large amount of the first fabric, stored frozen, and delivered to food traders and retail stores nationwide, each food trader and retail store will use the patterned first fabric. Then, you will be able to manufacture and sell food with patterns. In this way, a new business model was born that attempted to divide the production of food into a business that mass-produces only the first dough and a business that uses it to create the final food, and efficiently produces food with patterns. A system for manufacturing and selling will be created, and it is believed that this will greatly contribute to the development of industry.

10 inkjet printer 11 edible ink 12 tray 21 melon bread 22a flat melon bread biscuit dough 22b printed melon bread biscuit dough 22c patterned whole melon bread dough 23 melon bread dough 24a flat bun dough 24b printed bun dough 24c Patterned whole steamed bun dough 25a Flat mochi dough 25b Printed mochi dough 25c Patterned whole mochi dough 30 Ingredients

Claims (6)

A patterned food comprising a first dough and a second dough or ingredients, wherein the first dough is formed into a flat shape, characters and patterns are printed on the first dough by a food printing machine, and the first dough is 2. A patterned food characterized by being prepared by baking or steaming after forming a three-dimensional food shape so as to wrap dough or ingredients in the first dough. 2. The patterned food according to claim 1, wherein the pattern printed by the food printing machine has a protective layer for preventing bleeding due to moisture and elution of edible ink. 3. The patterned food according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the first dough on which the pattern is printed by a food printing machine is frozen. 4. The patterned food according to claim 3, wherein said first dough is biscuit and said second dough is bread dough. 3. The patterned food according to claim 1 or 2, comprising only the first dough without the second dough or ingredients. 6. The patterned food according to claim 5, wherein the first dough on which the pattern is printed by a food printing machine is frozen.

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