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US 4,162,333 AGranted
Method and apparatus for making filled food product
AssigneeMars, Incorporated
InventorsRichard L. Nelson, Walter P. Nelson
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for making a filled tubular food product in which tubular dough pieces are extruded onto a supporting die member which maintains the internal diameter of the cavity in each dough piece fixed during raising and baking after which said cavity is filled with another relatively softer food product.
Claims4
The method of making a food article having a tubular body portion of relatively rigid baked dough filled with relatively softer food material, the steps comprising;
- extruding a plurality of dough pieces each of a tubular cross section and of a predetermined length onto a plurality of support members disposed in an extruding zone to engage the interior of said dough pieces and wherein the exterior of said dough pieces is maintained in an unsupported condition, moving said support members and dough pieces through a baking zone for a predetermined period of time to form tubular body portions, removing the body portions from said support members and returning said support members to said extruding zone, transferring said body portions to holding members, moving said holding members and body portions to a filling zone and filling said tubular body portions with relatively soft food material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.