JP7366512B2 - plate-shaped confectionery - Google Patents

Description

Application of Article 30, Paragraph 2 of the Patent Act June 28, 2017 ARISTA FAIR 2017 September 28, 2017 Bandai Co., Ltd. Press Release

The present invention relates to a plate-shaped confectionery that is a plate-shaped confectionery.

BACKGROUND ART Conventionally, sweets such as chocolate have been formed into plate shapes and sold and eaten. For example, in the case of plate-shaped chocolate (hereinafter also referred to as "chocolate bar"), melted chocolate is poured into a mold to produce a single chocolate bar.
In addition, in the plate-shaped chocolate of Patent Document 1, molten chocolate is stored in a hopper, and the molten chocolate is discharged from a slit provided at the lower edge of the hopper onto a strip-shaped film running below the hopper. After solidifying this, one chocolate bar is manufactured by cutting it into predetermined intervals.

In the chocolate bar as described above, grooves are provided in, for example, a grid pattern so that one chocolate bar can be easily divided into small pieces when eaten. The grooves are thinner than other parts, allowing the fish to be divided into small pieces along the grooves and eaten. In addition, when adding a design such as a pattern, the design is added by providing unevenness on the top surface of the chocolate bar.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 4-194305

However, in the chocolate bar as described above, when a user breaks a chocolate bar while eating it, it often breaks in a straight line along the grooves. For this reason, there is a problem that the way the chocolate bar breaks is almost constant, making it uninteresting.

An object of the present invention is to provide a plate-shaped confectionery that can provide taste.

The plate-shaped confectionery according to the present invention has a main body formed in the shape of a plate having a predetermined thickness, and a desired extraction portion provided in at least a portion of the main body, and a portion provided adjacent to the desired extraction portion of the main body. The device includes a background portion, and a groove provided at a boundary between the desired extraction portion and the background portion, and at least a portion of the groove has a curved shape when the main body is viewed from above.

Further, the plate-shaped confectionery according to the present invention has a main body formed in a plate shape having a predetermined thickness, and a desired extraction portion provided in at least a part of the main body, and a portion adjacent to the desired extraction portion of the main body. and a groove provided at a boundary between the desired extraction portion and the background portion, and the thickness of the desired extraction portion is larger than the thickness of the background portion. Further, the plate-shaped confectionery according to the present invention has a main body formed in a plate shape having a predetermined thickness, a pattern portion is formed on the upper surface of at least a portion of the main body, and the plate-shaped confectionery is formed of two layers: the main body and the pattern portion. a cut-out portion of the main body, a background portion provided adjacent to the cut-out portion of the main body, and a groove provided at a boundary between the cut-out portion and the background portion, and the groove is connected to the pattern portion. It is formed between the background portion and the background portion.

Further, in the plate-shaped confectionery according to the present invention, the desired extraction portion and the background portion may be designed by recesses formed on the surface, and the depth of the groove may be greater than the depth of the recess.

Moreover, in the plate-shaped confectionery according to the present invention, the cross-sectional shape of the groove may be trapezoidal. Further, the main body may be chocolate. Further, the chocolate may have puffs mixed therein.

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a plate-shaped confectionery that can provide taste.

FIG. 1 is a plan view of a plate-shaped confectionery according to a first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along line II-II in FIG. 1; FIG. 3 is a plan view showing a state in which the main body is divided and a desired portion is extracted. (A) is a cross-sectional view showing a case where the thickness of the desired part to be extracted and the thickness of the background part are the same, and (B) is a cross-sectional view showing a case where the thickness of the desired part to be extracted is increased toward the bottom surface of the main body. be. It is a top view of the plate-shaped confectionery which is 2nd Embodiment of this invention. 6 is a sectional view taken along the line VI-VI in FIG. 5. FIG.

(First embodiment)
FIG. 1 is a plan view showing the overall structure of a plate-shaped confectionery for explaining a first embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along line II-II in FIG. In the following description, one side (one side) in the thickness direction is referred to as "upper" and the other side in the thickness direction is referred to as "lower" (see FIG. 2).

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the plate-shaped confectionery 10A has, for example, a rectangular thin plate shape, and has a main body 20A having a predetermined thickness. The main body 20A can be made of chocolate, semi-chocolate, etc., which have different ratios and quantities of raw materials for the dough. Further, the main body 20A can be formed of a material mixed with the puff 21 made of rice, wheat, corn, etc., but it can also be formed of a material without the puff 21.

A part of the upper surface 22, which is one side along the thickness direction of the main body 20A, has a desired extraction portion 23A formed in a desired shape and a background portion 24A provided adjacent to the periphery of the extraction desired portion 23A. . The thickness H1 of the desired extraction portion 23A is larger than the thickness H2 of the background portion 24A. In other words, at least a portion of the desired extraction portion 23A protrudes from the background portion 24A toward one side in the thickness direction of the main body 20A. In other words, the background portion 24A and the desired extraction portion 23A are formed so that a step is created between their respective surfaces. For this reason, the desired extraction portion 23A appears raised or gives the impression that it is protruding. Note that the lower surface 27, which is the other side in the thickness direction, is a substantially uniform plane.

For example, the desired extraction portion 23A is not limited to designs showing characters such as people, animals, dinosaurs, etc. that appear in manga, movies, anime, computer games, etc., but also arbitrary designs such as airplanes, cars, trains, musical instruments, plants, etc. However, the present invention is not limited to these configurations. In this embodiment, a case is illustrated in which a snowman is adopted as the desired extraction portion 23A. Further, the background portion 24A is provided around the desired extraction portion 23A, and serves to highlight the desired extraction portion 23A. In this embodiment, a case is illustrated in which a wall made of bricks or a pattern is used as the background portion 24A.

Furthermore, a design can be applied to the desired extraction portion 23A and the background portion 24A. The design is formed by a concave portion having a depth D2, and for example, a concave portion 231 is used on the surface of the desired extraction portion 23A to represent eyes, a nose, etc. Furthermore, a concave portion 241 is provided on the surface of the background portion 24A to express a brick pattern. Although it is also possible to apply the design portion using a convex portion, an example will be exemplified here in which the design portion is applied using a concave portion.

A groove 25 is provided at the boundary between the desired extraction portion 23A and the background portion 24A. Since the groove 25 is provided along the outer periphery of the desired extraction portion 23A, which has an arbitrary shape, the groove 25 is mainly formed in a curved line in many parts when the main body 20A is viewed from above. Note that the groove 25 may include a straight portion.

The groove 25 has a substantially uniform width and a substantially uniform depth D1. In order to avoid this problem, it is conceivable to form a trapezoid with a smaller width at the bottom. The depth D1 of the groove 25 is larger than the depth D2 of the recesses 231 and 241 for forming the above-described design. Note that it is also possible to adopt a U-shape, V-shape, etc. as the cross-sectional shape of the groove 25.

That is, the thickness of the main body 20A at the groove 25 position is smaller than the thickness at the desired extraction portion 23A and the background portion 24A. Furthermore, the thickness of the main body 20A at the groove 25 position is smaller than the thickness of the main body 20A at the recesses 231 and 241 forming the design. Therefore, the thickness of the main body 20A is the minimum at the groove 25 position. Note that it is also possible to form the depth D1 of the groove 25 smaller than the depth D2 of the recesses 231 and 241. However, it is preferable to make the depth D1 of the groove 25 larger than the depth D2 of the recesses 231 and 241 because it makes it easier to see the difference between the boundary between the desired extraction portion 23A and the background portion 24A and the designed portion.
Further, the optimum depth, cross-sectional width, cross-sectional shape, etc. of the groove 25 may vary depending on the thickness of the main body 20A, the hardness and viscosity of the chocolate, and the presence or absence and type of the puff 21. Determine appropriate numerical values, etc.

Next, the operation of breaking the main body 20A and extracting the desired portion 23A will be explained. FIG. 3 shows a state in which the main body 20A is divided and the desired portion 23A is extracted.

As shown in FIG. 3, in order to take out the desired portion 23A from the main body 20A, the background portion 24A around the desired portion 23A is split and separated from the desired portion 23A. Since a groove 25 is provided at the boundary between the desired extraction portion 23A and the background portion 24A, and the thickness of the main body 20A is reduced, the background portion 24A is likely to break along the groove 25.

At this time, if the background portion 24A is provided with a dividing groove 26 that divides the background portion 24A itself, the background portion 24A to be separated from the desired extraction portion 23A can be divided into small pieces, so that the desired extraction portion can be easily extracted. 23A can be taken out. In FIG. 3, a linear dividing groove 26 extending in the vertical and horizontal directions in FIG. 3 is provided in the background portion 24A around the desired extraction portion 23A. Note that the dividing grooves 26 may have a linear shape or a curved shape. It is desirable to provide the divided background portions 24A so that the sizes thereof are approximately equal.

The plate-shaped confectionery 10A according to the present embodiment has a desired extraction portion 23A provided on the upper surface 22 of the plate-shaped main body 20A, and a background portion 24A adjacent to the extraction desired portion 23A. A groove 25 is provided at the boundary line between the background portion 24A and the background portion 24A. This groove 25 has a curved shape in a plan view of the main body 20A.
Therefore, the outer shape of the desired extraction portion 23A of any shape can be formed by the groove 25, so that when the user extracts the desired extraction portion 23A provided on the main body 20A of the plate-shaped confectionery 10A into a desired shape, It is possible to provide a plate-shaped confectionery 10A that can provide taste.

Further, in the plate-shaped confectionery 10A according to the present embodiment, the thickness H1 of the desired extraction portion 23A is larger than the thickness H2 of the background portion 24A. In other words, at least a portion of the desired extraction portion 23A protrudes from the background portion 24A toward one side in the thickness direction of the main body 20A. In other words, the background portion 24A and the desired extraction portion 23A are formed so that a step is created between their respective surfaces. Therefore, the desired extraction portion 23A is more difficult to break than the background portion 24A, so when the background portion 24A is divided along the groove 25 and the desired extraction portion 23A is taken out, it is possible to avoid the desired extraction portion 23A from cracking. can.

In addition, in the plate-shaped confectionery 10A according to the present embodiment, the desired extraction portion 23A and the background portion 24A are designed by recesses 231 and 241 formed on the upper surface 22, and the depth D2 of the recesses 231 and 241 is The depth D1 of the groove 25 is greater than the depth D1 of the groove 25. That is, the thickness of the main body 20A at the groove 25 position is smaller than the thickness of the main body 20A at the recesses 231 and 241. Therefore, the groove 25 is more likely to break than the recesses 231 and 241, and when dividing the desired extraction portion 23A and the background portion 24A, it is possible to avoid breaking the desired extraction portion 23A. Further, it is possible to easily divide the desired extraction portion 23A and the background portion 24A.

In addition, in the plate-shaped confectionery 10A of the first embodiment described above, as shown in FIG. 2, a case has been described in which the thickness H1 of the desired extraction portion 23A is larger than the thickness H2 of the background portion 24A. It is not limited to. For example, as shown in FIG. 4(A), it is also possible to make the thickness of the desired extraction portion 23A the same as the thickness of the background portion 24A. Further, as shown in FIG. 4(B), when making the thickness of the desired extraction portion 23A larger than the thickness of the background portion 24A, instead of increasing the thickness toward the upper surface 22 of the main body 20A, it increases the thickness toward the lower surface 27. It is also possible to do so.

(Second embodiment)
FIG. 5 is a plan view showing the overall configuration of a plate-shaped confectionery for explaining the second embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 6 is a sectional view taken along the line VI-VI in FIG. In addition, parts common to the plate-shaped confectionery 10A of the first embodiment described above are denoted by the same reference numerals, and redundant explanation will be omitted.

As shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the plate-shaped confectionery 10B of the second embodiment is formed of two layers of different colored materials. In this embodiment, the main body 20B is formed using brown milk chocolate containing the puff 21, and has a thin wall portion 32 corresponding to the desired extraction portion 23B, and a thick wall portion that becomes the background portion 24B. It is formed into a plate shape having 33. Further, a pattern portion 30 is formed on the thin wall portion 32 using white chocolate without puffs, and the pattern portion 30 is integrally formed on the surface of the thin wall portion 32. In this embodiment, the desired extraction portion 23B is formed of two layers: a thin wall portion 32 and a pattern portion 30 formed on the thin wall portion 32.

In this embodiment, the pattern portion 30 is formed with a dinosaur pattern, and a bone 31 design is provided on the surface by a recess 231. Further, the background portion 24B is made of brown milk chocolate containing the puff 21, and various designs are applied to the surface by recesses 241.

Further, a groove 25 is provided along the outer shape of the pattern portion (dinosaur) 30 at the boundary between the desired extraction portion 23B and the background portion 24B. Note that since the pattern portion (dinosaur) 30 is integrally formed on the surface of the thin wall portion 32, the groove 25 is formed between the white chocolate forming the pattern portion (dinosaur) 30 and the milk chocolate forming the background portion 24B. will be formed between.

In this embodiment, the pattern part (dinosaur) 30 is made of chocolate without puffs, and the background part 24B around the pattern part (dinosaur) 30 is made of puffed chocolate. The desired extraction portion 23B including the dinosaur portion 30 is formed more solidly and integrally than the background portion 24B. By doing so, when the desired extraction portion 23B is taken out from the background portion 24B along the groove 25, the desired extraction portion 23B can be made difficult to break.

Note that in this embodiment as well, it is preferable that the thickness H1 of the desired extraction portion 23A be larger than the thickness H2 of the background portion 24A, but chocolate without puffs is used for the pattern portion 30 as in this embodiment. In this case, since the strength of the desired extraction portion 23A can be ensured, the thickness H1 of the desired extraction portion 23A does not necessarily have to be larger than the thickness H2 of the background portion 24A. When separating, the part 23B desired to be extracted can be made difficult to break. In other words, the thickness H1 of the desired extraction portion 23A and the thickness H2 of the background portion 24A are made to be approximately the same, or the thickness H1 of the desired extraction portion 23A is made smaller than the thickness H2 of the background portion 24A. is also possible.

Furthermore, in the plate-shaped confectionery 10B according to the second embodiment, the surfaces of the desired extraction portion 23B and the background portion 24B are formed of materials of different colors. For this reason, the desired extraction portion 23B can be clearly highlighted from the background portion 24B, making it possible to obtain even more interest.

Note that the type of chocolate is not limited to those in the above embodiment; for example, the pattern portion 30 may be formed of milk chocolate and the background portion 24B may be formed of white chocolate, or both the pattern portion 30 and the background portion 24B may be formed of white chocolate. They may also be formed using the same type of chocolate. Further, the type of chocolate is not limited to that of this embodiment, and various types such as dark chocolate can be used. Further, both the pattern portion 30 and the main body 20B may be formed from puffed chocolate, or both may be formed from chocolate without puffs. Further, the material mixed into chocolate is not limited to puffs, and various other materials such as nuts such as almonds and peanuts can also be used.

In addition, the plate-shaped confectionery 10A, 10B of the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and can be modified, improved, etc. as appropriate. For example, in the embodiment described above, the case where chocolate is used as the material is explained, but the present invention is not limited to this, and can also be applied to plate-shaped confectionery having a certain degree of hardness, such as cookies, biscuits, and gum. Even in this case, the same functions and effects as those of the embodiment described above can be obtained.

10A, 10B Plate-shaped confectionery 20A, 20B Main body 22 Top surface (one side)
23A, 23B Parts you want to extract 24A, 24B Background part 25 Groove D1 Depth of groove D2 Depth of recess H1 Thickness dimension of the part you want to extract H2 Thickness dimension of background part

Claims (9)

The main body is formed into a plate shape having a predetermined thickness,
a pattern portion is formed on an upper surface of at least a portion of the main body;
an extraction part formed of two layers, the main body and the pattern part;
a background portion provided adjacent to the extracted portion of the main body;
a groove provided at the boundary between the extracted portion and the background portion,
The groove is formed between the pattern part and the background part. In claim 1,
The plate-shaped confectionery wherein at least a portion of the groove is curved in a plan view of the main body. In claim 1 or claim 2,
The extracted portion and the background portion are designed by recesses formed on the surface,
A plate-shaped confectionery in which the depth of the groove is greater than the depth of the recess. In any one of claims 1 to 3,
The cross-sectional shape of the groove is a trapezoid. In any one of claims 1 to 4,
The main body is a plate-shaped confectionery made of chocolate. In claim 5,
The chocolate is a plate-shaped confectionery in which puffs are mixed. In any one of claims 1 to 6 ,
The background portion is a plate-shaped confectionery including a dividing groove that divides the background portion. In claim 2 ,
A plate-shaped confectionery in which the thickness of the cut-out portion is greater than the thickness of the background portion. In any one of claims 1 to 7 ,
The plate-shaped confectionery is a plate-shaped confectionery in which the surfaces of the cut-out portion and the background portion are formed of materials of different colors.