US 2023/0217951 A1 · VARIEGATOR

Abstract

A variegator and a process for using it. The variegator permits the manufacturer to obtain desirable patterns of distribution of sauce and chunks in frozen confections while at the same time permitting fast cleaning-in-place times to minimize factory downtime. The variegator comprises a) one or more conduits, each suitable for feeding a base frozen confection to a first opening or set of openings into a chamber, b) one or more conduits suitable for feeding a fluid variegating material such as a sauce through a second openings or set of openings at a level below the first set into the chamber below the base frozen confection opening, and c) a static mixer below the variegating material opening, the static mixer comprising at least two baffles.

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A variegator comprising:

a. one or more conduits each suitable for feeding one or more base frozen confections to a first set of one or more openings into a chamber,
b. one or more conduits suitable for feeding one or more fluid variegating materials through a second set of one or more openings into the chamber, the second set of one or more openings being at a level below the first set of one or more base frozen confection openings, and
c. a static mixer below the one or more variegating material openings, said static mixer comprising at least two baffles, the axis of the conduit through which the variegating material is fed through the one or more second openings into the chambers is disposed perpendicularly at the point of entry to the chamber(s) to the axis of at least one of the one or more conduits through which the base frozen confection is fed to the base frozen confection opening into the chambers at the point of entry to the chamber(s).

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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