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AssigneeGeneral Mills, Inc.
InventorsJohn C. Christensen, Thomas G. Cremers, James L. Stinson, Philip K. Zietlow
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An apparatus (10) for forming a single extrudable food stream such as a cooked cereal dough into a plurality of differently colored and/or flavored dough streams is disclosed including an extruder having screw augers in a main passageway for advancing a plastic food mass, a device for dividing the plastic food mass into a plurality of substreams such as a branching passageway section in fluid communication with a plurality of sub-divided dough passageways, and a die head having a plurality of die ports for each subpassageway. Each subpassageway has a separate conduit for supplying an additive and has disposed therein a multiplicity of in-line static mixer elements to admix the additive into the substreams of the plastic food mass before passage through the die ports.
An apparatus for producing multiple extrudates formed from a single product mass stream comprising, in combination:
A method for producing multiple extrudates from a single product mass stream comprising the steps of:
Dough section comprising, in combination:
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