Filling unit and method for filling a confectionery product into a mould or a container

A method for filling a confectionery mass, such as ice-cream, into one of a container and a mould, wherein a filling unit is used which includes a fill housing with a filling nozzle and at least two dosing pistons, each dosing piston provided displaceably in a cylinder which is connected to the fill housing;

• and that
• the filling unit is disposed over one of a mould and a container;
• the filling nozzle of the filling unit is moved into one of the container and mould;
• a confectionery mass is conducted from the filling nozzle into at least one of the cylinders while the dosing piston in the cylinder is retracted (A) into the cylinder;
• confectionery mass is dosed down into one of the mould and container as the dosing pistons are activated and moved down into the cylinder (B), whereby confectionery mass is dosed from each cylinder down into one of the mould and container via the mixer block and via at least one individual duct in the filling nozzle, as the dosing of confectionery mass from each cylinder is controlled in that the movement of each dosing piston is controlled independently of the movements of the other dosing pistons;
• and that
• the filling unit is actuated such that the filling nozzle is drawn out of one of the mould and Of container during the dosing of the confectionery mass.