Method for forming confectionery product
AssigneeMars, Incorporated
InventorsPeter Thomas Kashulines, Jr., Emil Anthony Kritzer, Robert Otto Brandt, Jr., Aubrey Elmo Jones, Jr., Malcolm Albert Austin, Ray Louis Peterson
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for making a shaped confectionery product of Bingham plastic rheology by cold extrusion wherein particles of the confectionery product are fed between counter-rotating form rolls having depressions corresponding to the desired product shape. The particles are compacted and compressed between the form rolls and fuse together to exit with a thin web of material interconnecting the shaped confectionery product. The release of the product from the roll surface is aided by induced differential motion between the rolls.
Claims17
A process for cold forming shaped articles of an edible product comprising:
- feeding material having a Bingham plastic rheology from which the articles are to be shaped in free flowable particulate form to a pair of counter rotating form rolls which have indentations on their surfaces conforming to the desired shape of said articles;
- compacting and compressing said particulate material to form a unified cohesive sheet of said material including shaped articles which conform to said indentations interconnected by a thin web of said material;
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- separating the shaped formed articles from the interconnecting web.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.