Apparatus for producing filled food products

An apparatus for producing filled food products, comprising:

• extruding means including multiple co-extrusion dies with parallel aligned outlets extruding a plurality of parallel elongated cylindrical filled food shells containing a filler material;
• a single conveyor belt for advancing the plurality of parallel elongated cylindrical filled food shells from the extruding means along a predetermined path;
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• a single rotary stamper disk in contact with the conveyor belt for partitioning the cylindrical filled food shells into filled food segments positioned transversely across the predetermined path, the rotary stamper disk having at least one circumferential row of stamping dies for each of the plurality of cylindrical filled food shells, such that the circumferential rows of stamping dies on the rotary stamper disk partition the plurality of cylindrical filled food shells into a plurality of rows of filled food segments, each of the stamping dies having a peripheral cutting edge whereby the elongated cylindrical filled food shells are divided into filled food segments and peripheral sealing lips being positioned on either side of the peripheral cutting edge whereby the edges of such filled food segments are sealed, the rotary stamper disk having two circumferential rows of stamping dies for each of the plurality of cylindrical filled food shells, the two rows of stamping dies being arranged in a closely spaced staggered interlocking configuration.