Device for preparing chocolate
AssigneeWiener & Co. B.V.
InventorJan C. Tadema
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Abstract
A device for treating a mixture for the manufacture of chocolate, said device comprising a cyclic course of a milling vessel and a mixing vessel each having a driving motor for driving the milling members and the mixing members respectively and means connected with the cycle for supplying the mixture to be treated and means for the delivery of the ready product provided with means for adding to the cycle a viscosity-reducing agent.
Claims9
A device for batch treatment of ingredients for the manufacture of chocolate, which comprises the combination of:
- milling means for grinding a quantity of the ingredients and mixing means for mixing the ground ingredients, first means for continuously circulating the ingredients from said milling means to said mixing means and second means for continuously circulating said ingredients back to said milling means from said mixing means whereby to form a closed recirculating system in which the viscosity of the ingredients tends to rise incidental to the milling and mixing thereof during each cycle of circulation;
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- dosing means for introducing a predetermined small amount of viscosity reducing agent other than cocoa butter into the circulating ingredients only when the viscosity of the ingredients exceeds a selectable threshold value.
A device for batch treatment of ingredients for the manufacture of chocolate, which comprises the combination of:
- milling means for grinding a quantity of the ingredients and mixing means for mixing the ground ingredients, first means for continuously circulating the ingredients from said milling means to said mixing means and second means for continuously circulating said ingredients back to said milling means from said mixing means whereby to form a closed recirculating system in which the viscosity of the ingredients tends to rise incidental to the milling and mixing thereof during each cycle of circulation;
- a reservoir containing a fixed quantity of a viscosity reducing agent other than cocoa butter;
- means for producing an output signal whose amplitude increases as the power consumed either by said mixing means or said milling means increases;
- dosing means for introducing a viscosity reducing agent other than cocoa butter into the circulating ingredients;
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- means responsive only to a value of said output signal exceeding a predetermined value for actuating said dosing means.
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