Gea Food Solutions Bakel B.v.

Paulus Johannes Verbruggen

Andreas Leonardus De Bijl

Jacobus Petrus Hubertus Haex

A method of moulding products from a mass of food stuff. The method includes providing a pump, which pumps the mass towards a mould member, providing detection means, which detects unwanted objects in the mass, removing a portion of the mass via a valve in case an unwanted object is detected, moving a mould cavity, which is part of the mould member past a feed channel, wherein the feed channel is connected to a feed pump, filling the mass into the mould cavity to form a product until a predetermined filling pressure is reached, ejecting a gas through a porous sidewall and/or a porous bottom of the mould cavity to eject the product, wherein no ejection gas is provided when the predetermined filling pressure has not been reached.

Mould member with foreign object detection

The present invention relates to an oven comprising: ⋅—a first and a second chamber and one heater per chamber to heat a gas which cooks a product, ⋅—at least one gas circulation means, which establishes a gas circulation in one chamber, ⋅—endless conveyor means for transporting products from an inlet through the chambers to the outlet, wherein the conveyor means are at least partially arranged in a helical path, ⋅—separation means to separate the first and second chamber, wherein the conveyor means pass through the separation means, ⋅—natural smoke gaseous supply which supplies gaseous smoke to at least one of the chambers, wherein the smoke supply is provided upstream from the circulation means.

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Helmond, Netherlands

Paulus Johannes Verbruggen