Device for manufacturing chewing gum
AssigneeLIPP Mischtechnik GmbH
InventorEberhard Lipp
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Abstract
A device for making chewing gum with a mixer, in which gum base is kneaded and mixed with sugar and liquid components, such as glucose flavoring and/or coloring agents. Whereas this has been done until now using mixers that operate essentially in batches, now it is proposed according to the invention to use as a mixer a high-speed shearing mixer that is flowed through in the axial direction, in which many ring-shaped stator parts are arranged projecting radially to the inside on the inner wall of an essentially cylinder-shaped housing, with which the radial outside ends of circumferential mixing blades mesh to form grinding gaps. This device has the advantage that it is small, cost-effective and continuously productive.
Claims11
A system for making chewing gum comprising:
- a shearing mixer means having an inlet communicating with an interior of a cylindrically-shaped housing, said housing having a plurality of ring-shaped stator elements projecting inwardly from an interior wall of said housing, respective pairs of said plurality of ring-shaped stator elements defining grinding gaps therebetween, said shearing mixer means having a rotor with mixing blades projecting radially outwardly therefrom, said mixing blades having radial outer ends meshing with said plurality of ring-shaped stator elements within said housing, said shearing mixer means for kneading and mixing a chewing gum base with flavoring or coloring agents and for shearing the mixed chewing gum base and flavoring or coloring agents in said grinding gaps;
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- a feeding means connected to said shearing mixer means for feeding the chewing gum base and the flavoring or coloring agents in an axial direction through said shearing mixer means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.