Confection center fill apparatus and method

Details Confection center fill apparatus and method Confection center fill apparatus and method

2004-05-18

2008-12-30

Davis, Robert B (Department: 1791)

Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus

Means feeding fluent stock from plural sources to common...

C425S191000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07470119

ABSTRACT:
Center filled confections, such as gummy or jelly candies or fruit snacks are continuously produced by co-deposition into a mold without candy tailing to obtain products with substantially uniform side walls and little, if any, shell breakage and filler leakage or bleed-out problems. Decentering of the filler and its accompanying production of thin or weak shell walls is avoided by at least substantially preventing excessive flow of a fluid or liquid shell component along a single side of shell introduction into the manifold nozzle or nozzle cavity. At least substantially uniform flow of the shell component in an annular passageway of a co-deposition nozzle assembly may be achieved with an apertured disk insert, a plurality of manifold bores, or opposing shell component entry points to evenly distribute the shell component and prevent or substantially reduce filler leakage or bleed-out.

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