Apparatus for the production of hollow confections provided with center fillings

Apparatus for the production of hollow confections provided with fillings, comprising, in combination:

• a rotary drive, metering feed means, a spinning station, a plurality of cup-shaped centrifugal molds, conveyor means which travel in a conveying direction under said metering feed means for casting a flowable confectionery mass into cup-shaped centrifugal molds which are mounted on said conveyor means for rotation about a vertical axis and each fitted with a first clutch member having a surface defined by at least a portion of a cone and which at said spinning station is moved by said conveyor means over said rotary drive which includes at least one second clutch member mounted on a clutch holder and having a surface defined by at least a portion of a cone, said rotary drive further including a drive means and coupling means connecting said second clutch member to said drive means, means connected to said clutch holder for bringing said first and said second clutch members into and out of engagement for causing said molds to be rotated by said rotary drive, means displaceably mounting at least one of said first and second clutch members to be displaceable in the conveying direction in relation to said conveyor means or said clutch holder, respectively and in relation to the other of said first and second clutch members, said first and second clutch members because of their shapes and said displaceable nature relative to one another being adapted to pull themselves into axial alignment as they engage.