Process for forming extruded ice confections and products formed thereby
AssigneeThomas J. Lipton, Inc.
InventorGary N. Binley
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Abstract
A process for preparing an ice confection or other foodstuff with projecting and relatively recessed relief features of its outer surface, by extruding the ice confection or other extrudable edible material from a rotating extrusion nozzle having a cross-section with an assymetrical configuration with respect to the rotation axis, with the extruded material passing from the nozzle immediately into an unconfined space and on to an elongate travelling conveyor which does not share the rotational motion of the extrusion nozzle, thereby to lay down on the conveyor an extended spirally-formed extrudate with projecting and relatively recessed relief features derived from its extrusion through the nozzle of assymetrical configuration.
Claims5
A process for preparing an ice confection with projecting and relatively recessed relief features on its outer surface, comprising the steps of extruding the ice confection material from a rotating extrusion nozzle having a cross-section with an assymmetrical configuration with respect to the rotation axis, passing the extruded material from the nozzle immediately into an unconfined space and on to an elongate travelling conveyor which does not share the rotational motion of the extrusion nozzle, and thereby laying down on the conveyor an extended spirally-formed extrudate with projecting and reltively recessed relief features derived from its extrusion through the nozzle of assymmetrical configuration.
An extruded ice confection comprising spirally-formed projecting and relatively recessed relief features of its outer surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.