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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2001
Peter Thomas Kashulines, Jr., Mountain Lakes, NJ (US);
Emil Anthony Kritzer, Shipman, VA (US);
Robert Otto Brandt, Jr., Wilmington, NC (US);
Aubrey Elmo Jones, Jr., Sparta, NJ (US);
Malcolm Albert Austin, Warsaw, PL;
Ray Louis Peterson, Chattanooga, TN (US);
Mars, Incorporated, McLean, VA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for making a shaped confectionery product of Bingham plastic rheology by cold extrusion wherein particles of the confectionery product are fed between counter-rotating form rolls having depressions corresponding to the desired product shape. The particles are compacted and compressed between the form rolls and fuse together to exit with a thin web of material interconnecting the shaped confectionery product. The release of the product from the roll surface is aided by induced differential motion between the rolls.