Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Filling cavity in edible solid preform with edible material
Patent
1994-06-17
1996-02-20
Yeung, George
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Filling cavity in edible solid preform with edible material
4251311, 4251331, 4253823, 426500, 426516, A23L 100, A23P 100
Patent
active
054927064
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
Co-extrusion is a widely applied method for manufacturing compound products in various areas of industry, e.g., in plastics industry and food industry. Examples of products made thereby in the latter industry being ice cream logs having layers of different flavours and dough products enclosing a filling of fruit puree or minced meat.
Although this technique provides for a wide variety of shapes and product combinations there is still a need for further variation of shapes for improved attractiveness of tile products.
To comply with this requirement the present invention provides a method for manufacturing co-extruded products, comprising extruding a continuous strand of one extrudable material and simultaneously an enveloping sheath of a second different extrudable material wherein at least a second sheathed strand is extruded while twisting these strands about each other for at least part of a full revolution.
In a preferred embodiment the extrusion is effected through nozzles arranged on a common supporting structure.
The invention also relates to an apparatus for executing this method, comprising a multiplicity of nozzles each having a central bore having a feeding means and an annular opening surrounding said bore having separate feeding means, these nozzles being arranged for effecting a mutual movement which comprises at least part of a rotation about each other.
In a preferred embodiment these nozzles are arranged on a common structure, which is mounted for rotation about an axis.
In a very convenient embodiment of such an apparatus, for construction reasons the common structure forms a turret which is rotationally mounted on a common housing, said housing comprising at least one annular chamber having feeding means, concentrically arranged about a central chamber having separate feeding means, the annular chamber constantly communicating with the annular openings of the nozzles and the central chamber with the central bores thereof.
Using the above method and apparatus products can be produced which up till now could be made by hand only.
The invention will be explained in a non-restrictive manner in the following description of some preferred embodiments, reference being had to the drawings wherein
FIG. 1 is an axial sectional view of an extrusion apparatus according to the invention,
FIG. 2 is a cross sectional view along the line II--II in FIG. 1,
FIG. 3 is a cross sectional view along the line in FIG. 1 and
FIG. 4 is a cross sectional view similar to FIG. 2 of an alternative embodiment of the apparatus according to the invention.
The extrusion apparatus of the invention as shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 comprises a cylindrical housing 1, having an annular chamber 2 with a feeding conduit 3 and a central chamber 4, extending along the axis of the cylindrical housing, having a feeding conduit 5.
The annular chamber 2 is closed at one axial end and is supporting a turret 6 which is mounted for rotation at the other axial end. For convenience of manufacture and maintenance the turret 6 comprises several component parts: an annular head 7, tightly fitting about the housing, but being rotationally movable thereto, a number of clamps 8 bolted to the head and enclosing an annular outer ridge 9 and a plug portion 10 united to the annular head 7 by means of a circular front plant 11.
Suitable seals (not shown, but known as such) are provided between the housing 1 and the turret 6 and the parts thereof to prevent unintended flowing out of material from the chambers 2 and 4 but to allow mutual rotational movement between the turret 6 and the housing 1. As best may be seen from FIG. 2 the turret 6 is provided with three nozzles 12 at a uniform pitch, each having a central opening 13 communicating with the central chamber 4 through a pipe 14 supported in the plug portion 10 and an annular opening 15 communicating with the annular chamber 2 through suitable bores in the plug portion. An additional central nozzle 16 is arranged between the nozzles 12 on the axis of the turret. A feed pipe 17 is arranged along the axis
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Cockings Terrence R.
Mawhinney Peter T.
Unilever Patent Holdings B.V.
Yeung George
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