The application claims priority to Chinese patent application No. 202210843347.7, filed on Jul. 18, 2022, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention relates to a method of making chocolate, in particular in smokable aerosol products, in the field of food flavoring.
Chocolate making methods in the prior art are diverse. The methods mainly included are the production of simple chocolate, and food and drink products related to chocolate, and chocolate products added to the product for added interest. The present invention jumps out of these thought frames to consider chocolate production related to smokable aerosol products.
Smokable aerosol products, such as e-cigarettes, non-burning cigarettes, diverging constituents may be added to the aerosol-generating mechanism, such that a smoker can experience flavours other than traditional tobacco during aerosol smoking of tobacco-related substrate generation using smokable aerosol products. This addition of divergent ingredients, however, merely simulates flavours other than tobacco, and does not allow the smoker to experience a realistic sensation in practice, such as a strawberry flavor additive is simply to simulate the aroma of strawberry, but not experiencing the sensation of eating strawberries. These fragrances (such as the strawberry flavor, the orange flavor, the mint flavor etc.) usually tend to be artificially synthesized molecular agents, not natural ingredients, so that the experiencer can only produces one kind of psychological cue, that the flavors of these substances are experienced by themselves. However, it is in fact known that there is no real feeling of the odor or even chewing to real life while smoking aerosols. Since the prior art does not disclose a real fruit or flesh product, either the food items that the smoker wants to experience, which are provided in electronic cigarettes, non-burning cigarettes, nor is it considered how to make, so that the smoker only stays in the feeling scenarios of self-placebo simulating the experience and real chewing which is perceived to be experienced.
In prior art, when considering flavor simulations, an additive and the tobacco product are mixed or separately stored in a region that can be heated, almostly without exception, so that they emanate together with aerosols to be smoked. Thus, there are clear disadvantages as following. Firstly, no consideration is given to jumping out of the heating area to introduce real chocolate content in other components of the smokable aerosol products, and secondly, the current smoking regimes lead to mouth entry before flavor experience in the nasal cavity. Therefore, there is a need for improvement in the thinking of the making method and the experiencing manner.
Therefore, how to consider transformation of flavour additives to real-food, (e.g., chocolate), into the perception of the smell of chocolate and even chewing the realistic food, respectively, at the same time or in more or less sequential moment of smoking aerosol, is a new idea of additional experience of realistic smoking.
The present invention is directed to solving the above-mentioned problems by considering design about a mouthpiece, putting chocolate onto a mouthpiece, and controlling the temperature of the chocolate to produce a realistic chocolate aroma and a realistic smoking experience of chewing onto the chocolate.
In order to achieve the realistic smoking experience described above, the present invention provides a chocolate making method, characterized by the following steps of:
Wherein, the mouthpiece in step (a) comprises a mouthpiece main body, a mouth end removably coupled to the mouthpiece main body, wherein the mouthpiece main body has an inner wall a middle wall and an outer wall, which are arranged in sequence from inner to outer with enclosing structures, the surrounding inner wall forming an aerosol channel, the middle wall and the inner wall forming a chocolate receiving cavity therebetween surrounding the aerosol channel, the outer wall and the middle wall forming a heater receiving cavity therebetween surrounding the chocolate receiving cavity.
Preferably, the chocolate comprises granulated chocolate beans and a hollow solid enveloped chocolate column. Preferably, the chocolate beans have a diameter of 1-5 mm and the chocolate column matches the geometry of chocolate receiving cavity, the geometry comprising a hollow cylinder, a hollow prism, a hollow elliptical column having pre-set thickness wall (i.e. a cross-section perpendicular to height is ellipsoid having pre-set wall thickness width), wherein the chocolate beans are produced by means of an arrayed conveying ducts, with molten fluid chocolate forming a plurality of lines of chocolate on a cooling plate conveyed on a conveyor belt, and the cooling plate carrying the multiple passes of chocolate lines is conveyed through a conveyor belt to a midstream cutting zone, the plurality of chocolate lines are divided into chocolate dots by arrayed blades, and further the cooling plate is conveyed to a downstream cooling zone to make the chocolate dots harden, i.e., forming a plurality of chocolate beans arranged in a dot formation on a cooling plate.
preferably, a cutting-off plate is provided on one side of the array delivery ducts, used at the output port for the flexible chocolate passing through the arrayed conveying ducts, to block the chocolate from continuing to fall onto the conveyor belt between the next cooling plate and the cooling plate currently carrying the multiple passes of chocolate lines that have been formed, after the multiple passes of chocolate lines are formed, therefore contamination is avoided. And when the cutting-off plate completely passes through the output port, the next cooling plate on which a plurality of chocolate lines can be continuously formed are just at the lower end of the output port, thus constantly forming a plurality of cooling plates carrying a plurality of chocolate lines.
Preferably, the cooling plates are made of food grade metal plate. The array blades have a spacing of less than 6 mm between two adjacent blades, each of which has a thickness of 1-3 mm, so that adjacent dots of the chocolate lattice can be divided into spatial distances between them to avoid possible contact merging together again.
The chocolate column with the hollow solid enclosing structure is made by the steps of: making a paper mould with the hollow solid enclosing structure, injecting pulped chocolate into the hollow solid enclosing structure, which is sprayed through a midstream dry ice chamber towards the mould and then out of the dry ice chamber, and collected and packaged downstream, therefore a column of chocolate is formed in the hollow solid enclosing structure. The column of chocolate can be torn apart individually or removed from the mould in use, so the paper mould serves dual roles of chocolate column forming and product overwrapping during production.
Preferably, the surface of paper mould in contact with the chocolate has a smooth oily structure.
Preferably, the mouth end has a closed structure which abuts against the inner wall, to form an air flow barrier between the chocolate receiving cavity and the aerosol channel, with at least one through hole in communication with the chocolate receiving cavity, when the mouth end is coupled to the mouthpiece main body.
It will be appreciated that the condition of the air flow barrier avoids the contact of aerosol on chocolate thereby adhering hazardous materials to chocolate surface, while through holes facilitate expulsion of chocolate flavour, especially the heated chocolate may more easily smell.
The preset thickness is 2-5 mm.
The step (b) in particular comprises: the chocolate receiving cavity comprises a carrier portion, formed in the chocolate receiving cavity and with at least one thermometric aperture secured to the inner and middle walls; and the top of the heater receiving cavity has a sealing ring; placing the prepared chocolate into the chocolate receiving cavity such that the carrier portion supports the chocolate, then connecting the mouth end with the mouthpiece main body; mounting a heater into the heater receiving chamber, and/or mounting at least one temperature sensor into the chocolate receiving chamber on the other side opposite to the side of the carrier portion supporting the chocolate, capping at the bottom of the chocolate receiving chamber by a sealing cap and directing signal wires from fine apertures at the bottom of the sealing cap, and sealing the fine apertures with sealant.
Preferably, the heater is a coil or a microwave radiation device, the temperature sensor is an infrared temperature sensor, the current temperature of the chocolate is calculated by a spectroscopy processor provided in the main body of the smokable aerosol product by receiving the infrared rays emitted by the chocolate in real time to the thermometer. The controller provided in the main body of the smokable aerosol product controls the heater to be turned off when the temperature exceeds a predetermined temperature.
Preferably, the preset temperature is 37-60° C. Preferably, when no heater is installed in heater receiving cavity, the temperature sensor also measures the chocolate temperature, as the heat transferred from the smoke would also heat and soften the chocolate, and meanwhile an alarm is installed in smokable aerosol product main body to notice the smoker to stop suction to avoid further heating of chocolate by smoke.
It will be appreciated that smoker may remove the chocolate from the chocolate receiving cavity at any time before and after smoking by detaching the mouth end.
Preferably, the inner wall and the middle wall forming one side of chocolate receiving cavity are provided with the smooth oily surface structured paper.
More preferably, the paper or the smooth oily surface structure is provided by the food grade paper.
Step (c) in particular comprises: achieving a detachable electrical connection between the signal line and the spectrum processor lead-out terminal via a pluggable interface, the heater also being electrically connected through a detachable electrical connection between lead-out wires and a controller lead-out terminal via a pluggable interface, connecting the mouthpiece to the smokable aerosol product main body after the electrical connection of the signal wires and/or heater is completed, the connection between the mouthpiece and the smokable aerosol product main body is achieved by snapping or threading connection with no more than 3 revolutions.
A. Enable smelling of a real chocolate aroma while smoking aerosol and able to heat the chocolate by heating the chocolate heater, or by the heat transferred through the natural heat of the aerosol, thereby controlling the aroma emission intensity, increasing the desire to eat even more.
B. The removable mouth end design enables the chocolate to be removed from the mouthpiece main body at any time before and after smoking, experiencing a realistic smoking experience of chewing the realistic chocolate.
C. The paper mould employed to make the chocolate column with hollow solid enclosing structure acts as both forming and packaging, saving demoulding costs, with cleanliness and hygiene; the chocolate columns with hollow solid enclosing structure can also be retailed as bulk or in packages at the same time, not necessarily contained in the mouthpiece, making multiple ways of eating the product.
D. The chocolate column profile with hollow solid enclosing structure is intriguing to allow the children to imagine licking as cocking sleeve over previously cleaned fingers or string on clean bar, increasing eating pleasure.
The reference numerals wherein are as follows: 1 smokable aerosol product main body, 2 battery, 3 controller, 4 spectrum processor, 5 aerosol generating substrate generation zone, 6 mouthpiece, 6-1 mouthpiece main body, 6-2 mouth end, 7 inner wall, 8 middle wall, 9 outer wall, 10 aerosol channel, 11 chocolate receiving cavity, 12 heater receiving cavity, 13 closed structure, 14 through hole, 15 thermometry hole, 16 carrier, 17 coil, 18 infrared temperature sensor.
This example first illustrates the method of making the chocolate beans, as shown in
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This example will illustrate the method of making a chocolate column of the hollow solid enclosing structure, as shown in
This embodiment describes a solution for a mouthpiece reality smoking experience. As shown in
Based on the mouthpiece 6 in the smokable aerosol product described above, the present embodiment describes a chocolate making method comprising the steps of:
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The chocolate is a chocolate cylinder of hollow solid enclosing structure in the embodiment 2 that matches the geometry of the chocolate receiving cavity. The chocolate receiving cavity 11 comprises a carrier portion 16, formed in chocolate receiving cavity 11, with 2 thermometric holes 15 secured to the inner wall 7 and the middle wall 8. The top of the heater receiving cavity 12 has a sealing ring. The prepared hollow chocolate cylinder is placed into the chocolate receiving cavity 11 as in direction of the arrows in
The mouth end 6-2 having a closed structure 13. When the mouth end 6-2 is connected to the mouthpiece main body 6-1 as indicated by the arrow in
After connecting (snapping or screw connection) the mouth end 6-2 with the mouthpiece main body 6-1 as in
A detachable electrical connection between the signal line and the spectrum processor 4 lead-out terminal (not shown in
The infrared temperature sensor 18 calculates the current chocolate temperature by the spectrum processor 4 provided in the main body 1 of the smokable aerosol product by receiving infrared rays emitted by the chocolate into the thermometer hole 15 in real time. When the temperature exceeds a pre-set temperature of 50° C., the controller 3 controls the coil 17 to be turned off, i.e., controls the power supply 2 to stop outputting power to the coil 17.
Even when the coil 17 is not installed in the heater receiving chamber 12 in
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202210843347.7 | Jul 2022 | CN | national |