Apparatus for continuous manufacture of multi-colored and/or multi-flavored food product

• Main Authors: FINDLAY SUSAN B, AHAD ASMA N, SMITH GARY F, ZAUG WARREN R, SANGERN KAMPAT
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 13.03.2001
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CHEWING GUM; COCOA; COCOA PRODUCTS, e.g. CHOCOLATE; CONFECTIONERY; FISHING; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; ICE-CREAM; MANUFACTURE OF DAIRY PRODUCTS; PREPARATION THEREOF; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; SHAPING OR WORKING OF FOODSTUFFS, NOT FULLY COVERED BY ASINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; SUBSTITUTES FOR COCOA OR COCOA PRODUCTS; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; TRAPPING

A method and an apparatus for manufacturing a food product having a plurality of sections having different characteristics, such as different colors and/or flavors. The method and apparatus has a first nozzle extruding a first stream of a liquid food product having a first characteristic onto a moving platform. The first stream has a height and a width with respect to the platform. A second nozzle extrudes a second stream of a liquid food product having a second characteristic onto the platform. The second stream has a height and a width with respect to the platform. The second nozzle is adjacent to the first nozzle providing adjacent first and second streams on the moving platform. The first stream and second stream spread out such that their heights decrease and their widths increase. When the increasing width of the first stream abuts the increasing width of the second stream, the first stream has a first viscosity and the second stream has a second viscosity which inhibit substantial mixing of the first and second streams when the two streams abut.