Apparatus for forming confectionery product

An apparatus for cold forming a shaped article of an edible product from particulate pieces of said product comprising:

• a support frame structure;
• a pair of form rolls mounted for counter rotation within said frame structure;
• said mounting for said form rolls comprising a shaft for each said form roll rotatably mounted within said frame structure;
• each said form roll including a plurality of depressions on the peripheral surface thereof shaped to form an article of a desired shape;
• each said form roll being mounted for counter rotation toward each other with said depressions aligned to match with the depressions in the other of said form rolls at the interface where each form roll is closest to the other;
• drive means for driving said form rolls in counter rotation;
• and
• said rolls being spaced from each other so as to compress and compact said particulate pieces into shaped article conforming to the shaped depressions on said form rolls interconnected by a thin web of said material,
• wherein said shafts are dimensioned and mounted so as to twist when said particulate pieces are formed into a shaped configuration as said form rolls are driven.