Image application onto food products or soap industry products

• Main Author: HNATEK, HANS, 46499 HAMMINKELN, DE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; German
• Published: 21.01.1999
• Edition: 6
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CHEWING GUM; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; COCOA; COCOA PRODUCTS, e.g. CHOCOLATE; COLOUR PRINTING; CONFECTIONERY; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; DECORATIVE ARTS; FISHING; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; ICE-CREAM; LINING MACHINES; MACHINE TOOLS; MANUFACTURE OF DAIRY PRODUCTS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MOSAICS; PAPERHANGING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PREPARATION THEREOF; PRINTING; PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; PRODUCING DECORATIVE EFFECTS; SHAPING OR WORKING OF FOODSTUFFS, NOT FULLY COVERED BY ASINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; STAMPS; SUBSTITUTES FOR COCOA OR COCOA PRODUCTS; TARSIA WORK; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; TRANSPORTING; TRAPPING; TYPEWRITERS; WELDING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM

A process for producing and applying complex pictures and objects (eg photographs, video pictures etc) onto food products such as meat. pastry, fish, cheese etc as well as on products produced by the soap industry, comprises using a carbon dioxide laser writing unit. The latter is used according to the scan-raster principle.