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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2002
Thomas Reid Kelly, Kettering, GB;
Bryan Edwin Barwick, Higham Ferrers, GB;
Vijay Arjun Sawant, Raunds, GB;
Thomas Reid Kelly, Kettering, GB;
Bryan Edwin Barwick, Higham Ferrers, GB;
Vijay Arjun Sawant, Raunds, GB;
FMC Corporation, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to process and apparatus for creating shaped objects from incipiently gelling alginate or low-methoxy pectate sol in which the incipiently gelling sol is guided into cavities of a movable belt. V-shaped wiper blades can be used as guides. The sol is preferably fed onto the belt at a rate not greater than the volumetric feed rate of the cavities. The process and apparatus can be used to prepare such products as imitation fruit e.g. by incorporating pureed fruit in the incipiently gelling sol.