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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 29, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Stephen Thomas Beckett, Wiggington, GB;
Mark Jury, Thirsk, GB;
Assignee:
Nestec S.A., Vevy, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
426101 ; 426103 ; 426104 ; 426289 ; 426565 ; 426572 ; 426660 ; 426383 ; 426519 ;
Abstract
A confectionery product which has discrete pieces of a chocolate material, which is a chocolate, a chocolate substitute or a chocolate analogue, having specific characteristic shapes which are images dispersed in a confectionery material is prepared by distributing the discrete pieces having a temperature less than 20.degree. C. into a stream of frozen, chilled or ambient confectionery material to obtain a composite product, and the composite product may be mixed.