Forming articles of fat-containing confectionery material including chocolate
US5902621A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 29, 1996 |
| Grant date | May 11, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 29, 2016 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB29C2043/468
- WIPO fieldOther special machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
Shaped articles of fat-containing confectionery material are formed by extruding a fat-based confectionery material under pressure so that it passes to and through a flow-constriction and a die so that the material subjected to extrusion and the extrudate from the die are in a non-pourable state and so that the material subjected to extrusion plastically deforms and so that the extrudate is plastically deformable, and then while the extrudate is plastically deformable, extrudate is placed in a molding tool and pressed to shape an article which then is demolded, or extrudate is fed to a nip of counter-rotating rollers having depressions which upon passage of the extrudate in the nip between the rollers shape the extrudate.
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