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

An extrusion die for combining plastic edible materials into a striped continuous formed confection, said extrusion die comprising:

• a die body, including
• a) a shaping bore for extrusion-forming a host edible material constituting a substrate of said continuous formed confection;
• b) a plurality of nozzles for discharging different supplemental edible materials in a host edible material pathway passing through said die body, each of said plurality of nozzles delivering a seam of supplemental edible material on the host edible material, said nozzles being associated into sets, each of said sets of nozzles being capable of depositing a different supplemental edible material on the host edible material, each of said sets of nozzles including at least two nozzles in a spaced apart relationship to lay seams of a certain supplemental edible material, said die body further including a plurality of feed conduits to furnish a respective supplemental edible material to each of said sets of nozzles, individual nozzles in each of said sets of nozzles being in a fluid=communicative relationship with a respective feed conduit, said plurality of nozzles being grouped into a plurality of arrays arranged in a spaced apart relationship, individual nozzles in one of said arrays belonging to different ones of said sets of nozzles;
• and
• c) discharge orifices positioned between said plurality of nozzles and said host edible material pathway, at least one of said discharge orifices being in fluid communicative relationship with a pair of nozzles belonging to different ones of said sets of nozzles, whereby said one discharge orifice is capable of laying different supplemental materials on the host edible material, said discharge orifices providing means for laying supplemental edible material on the host edible material substantially without mixing the host edible material and the supplemental edible material.