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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 1983
Filed:
Nov. 04, 1981
David A Cloud, Wilmette, IL (US);
Charles E Cloud, Wilmette, IL (US);
William N Pearson, Highland Park, IL (US);
Donn A Hartman, Gurnee, IL (US);
Cloud Corporation, Skokie, IL (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for manufacture of milk chocolate-coated toffee candy pieces that comprises a toffee header with means connected to the header for heating a mass of toffee to a softened temperature sufficient to permit portions of it to be pulled from the mass. The header has spaced orifices for the toffee to exit as strands. A rotary toffee forming device is mounted beneath the orifices. Means is provided for reciprocating the header back and forth with the fine toffee strands being drawn from the orifices by the rotary movement of the rotary toffee forming device. Means is provided for transversely severing outer ends of the axially moving lengths of cores with consecutive cuts to form successive toffee pieces of toffee cores. A chocolate coating bath is provided for first immersing the bottoms of the toffee cores in a bath of milk chocolate and then for flooding chocolate over the tops of the cores to completely coat the cores. A conveyor system is provided for moving the severed cores after the cores have been severed in rows to the baths for coating. A cooling apparatus is provided for cooling the chocolate-covered cores to lace them in condition for packaging.