Flavoring food products
OwnerGordon A. Clarkinventor
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Abstract
Foodstuffs flavoring apparatus comprises an inlet, a screw conveyor arranged to convey flavoring from the inlet to a rotor disposed in a cylindrical chamber parallel to the axis of the screw conveyor, the rotor including one or more blades extending towards the wall of the chamber. The chamber also includes one or more apertures through which powdered flavoring carried to the chamber from the inlet by rotation of the screw conveyor is ejected in use of the apparatus. An electrostatic charging head located adjacent the outlet ensures adhesion of the flavoring to the foodstuff.
Claims12
Foodstuff flavoring apparatus comprising:
- a vessel through which foodstuff can pass during manufacture;
- an electrostatic charging head disposed in said vessel;
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- a flavoring dispenser arranged so that flavoring ejected from an outlet of said dispenser passes adjacent the electrostatic charging head to induce an electrostatic charge thereon, said flavoring dispenser including an inlet, a screw conveyor having an axis arranged to convey flavoring from the inlet to a rotor disposed in a cylindrical chamber parallel to the axis of the screw conveyor, the rotor including at least one blade extending towards the wall of the chamber, and the chamber including at least one aperture at said outlet through which powdered flavoring carried to the chamber from the inlet by rotation of the screw conveyor is ejected by rotation of the rotor in use of the dispenser.
Foodstuff flavoring apparatus as in claim 9, wherein said vessel is a flavoring drum wherein flavoring is applied to a foodstuff, and further comprising:
- a detector adapted to generate a signal indicative of the amount of foodstuff passing through the drum in use;
- a feeder responsive to said signal and adapted to release a controlled amount of flavoring to the screw conveyor of said dispenser to apply flavoring to the foodstuff in the drum to provide a flavored foodstuff incorporating a predetermined amount of flavoring.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.