Device for producing a shaped confection of edible materials combined into co-extensive strips

A device for combining plastic edible materials into a striped continuous formed confection having a predetermined cross-sectional shape, said device comprising:

• a body defining a pathway for receiving therethrough a substrate of said striped continuous formed confection comprising an extrudate of host edible material, said body including;
• a) a plurality of nozzles for selectively discharging at least one of a plurality of different supplemental edible materials in said pathway, said plurality of nozzles being in a spaced apart relationship for laying supplemental edible material in a plurality of seams spaced apart from one another on the host edible material, thereby forming a confection of different edible materials combined in co-extensive strips;
• b) a plurality of feed conduits supplied with respective supplemental edible materials, said feed conduits being in fluid-communication with said nozzles for supplying to said nozzles supplemental edible materials;
• c) said plurality of nozzles communicating with said pathway through discharge orifices, whereby each of said discharge orifices is capable of laying on the host edible material different supplemental materials substantially without mixing the host edible material and the supplemental edible material;
• d) a washing medium supply conduit in fluid-communication with said plurality of nozzles for delivering in said nozzles a washing medium to clean said nozzles from residual supplemental edible material;
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• e) each nozzle including an elongated passageway, the washing medium having a direction of flow through said passageway, said feed conduits having discharge ports opening in each nozzle at a location downstream of a discharge port of said supply conduit of said washing medium relative to said direction of flow.