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US 2004/0018282 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for making chocolate articles on a conveyor web
OwnerJacob Christian Referinventor
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Plungers (12) having a pressing surfaces (15) onto which no lubricant is applied are immersed into contact with tempered chocolate mass (8) deposited directly on a conveyor web (2) thereby being pressed into edible articles (31). The temperature of the pressing surfaces (15) are kept below the solidification temperature of the chocolate mass during the pressing. The chocolate rapidly solidifies under crystallisation from its surface in contact with the pressing surfaces (15) of the plungers and inwardly through the chocolate layer. The system is free of any moulds and mould plates and contamination of the plungers (12) and the edible chocolate articles with lubricant remains is completely avoided.
Method for making edible articles of chocolate-like mass, in particular chocolate mass, being tempered and pressed into articles (31) as pressing surfaces (15) of plungers (12) contacts the mass (8), characterised in, that the mass (8) is deposited directly on a conveyor web (2), that no lubricant is applied to the pressing surfaces (15), and that the temperature of the pressing surfaces (15) is kept below the solidification temperature of the tempered chocolate mass during the pressing, whereafter the plungers (12) are retracted from the chocolate articles (31) on the conveyor (2).
Apparatus (1) for making edible articles of chocolate-like mass, in particular chocolate mass, being tempered and deposited directly on a conveyor web (2),
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