Method for producing chewing gum granules and compressed gum products, and a chewing gum granulating system
AssigneeGumlink A/S
InventorsRikke Mikkelsen, Kaj Hovhave Nielsen, Niels Ravn Schmidt, Per Henrik Ertebjerg Christensen
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for producing chewing gum granules. The method comprises at least the steps of feeding a gum composition including at least gum base into an extruder (2), pressurizing the gum composition in the extruder, extruding the gum composition through a die plate (5), and cutting the extruded gum composition in a liquid filled chamber (4). The extruded gum composition comprises at least 71% Wt, gum base and the cut granules are included in compressed gum tablets. The invention further relates to a chewing gum product, and to a chewing gum granulating system.
Claims30
A method for producing compressed gum products, wherein the method comprises at least the steps of:
- a) feeding a gum composition including at least gum base into an extruder;
- b) pressurizing the gum composition in the extruder;
- c) extruding the gum composition through a die plate;
- d) cuffing the extruded gum composition into gum granules in a liquid filled chamber, said cut gum granules include at least gum base in the range of 86 to 99% Wt. based on a total weight of the granules, together with at least one taste ingredient, said die plate having openings of at least two different sizes to simultaneously obtain granules with different average diameters;
- e) conveying at least the extruded gum granules to a tablet pressing machine;
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- f) pressing at least the gum granules of two different sizes into compressed chewing gum tablets in the tablet pressing machine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.