Machine for producing small mounds of an almond fragment/chocolate mass substance

US4650410A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Lothar A. Wolf Spezialmaschinen GmbH · DE

Inventor

• Lothar Wolf · Lauta, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 31, 1985
• Grant date: Mar 17, 1987
• Expiry date: Oct 31, 2005

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A23G3/2023
• WIPO field: Food chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A machine for producing small mounds of a solidifiable substance, especially an almond fragments/chocolate mass mixture, includes a plurality of adjacent troughs which delimit respective substantially coextensive parallel channels, each of which includes a succession of an upstream mixing section, an intermediate sieving section, and a downstream settling section, which opens onto an unloading conveyor. The substance is introduced in a predetermined quantity into the respective mixing sections, at which it is subsequently engaged and advanced by one of a plurality of individual pusher elements of a multiple pusher. The multiple pusher moves, during each cycle of operation, through an advancement movement, during which the metered quantity of the substance is advanced by a predetermined distance through the mixing, sieving or settling channel section, in that order, a lifting stroke during which all of the individual pusher elements are moved opposite to the advancement direction outside the channel, and a lowering stroke, during which the individual pusher elements re-enter the channel.