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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015
Filed:
May. 30, 2012
Jim Olejarski, Rockford, IL (US);
Joseph Roarty, Rockford, IL (US);
Arthur W. Upmann, Rockford, IL (US);
James A. Duggan, Machesney Park, IL (US);
Jim Olejarski, Rockford, IL (US);
Joseph Roarty, Rockford, IL (US);
Arthur W. Upmann, Rockford, IL (US);
James A. Duggan, Machesney Park, IL (US);
Intercontinental Great Brands LLC, East Hanover, NJ (US);
Abstract
Gum manufacturing machinery and method of manufacturing gum is illustrated in which a gum loafing machine generates loaves of finished gum that are then subsequently run through a gum conditioner to more uniformly set the temperature and viscosity of the gum material prior to further processing. Upon achieving the appropriate conditioning level, a further forming extruder may be used to generate a continuous gum ribbon for subsequent rolling and scoring operations. The gum conditioner may include vertically stacked conveyors that have different operational modes including a first mode that provides a serpentine path for a long residence time and a second mode that provides a cascading path that avoids or bypasses much of the length of some of the conveyors to provide a shorter residence time. The gum manufacturing machinery may be used in an adjustable manner so as to accommodate difference gum recipes for different batches of gum product.