Center filled confections, such as gummy or jelly candies or fruit snacks are continuously produced by co-deposition into a mold without candy tailing to obtain products with substantially uniform side walls and little, if any, shell breakage and filler leakage or bleed-out problems. Decentering of the filler and its accompanying production of thin or weak shell walls is avoided by at least substantially preventing excessive flow of a fluid or liquid shell component along a single side of shell ...

This specification describes an apparatus for carrying out a method of making a multi-walled pipe in the shape of a tube having a helical configuration. The apparatus is made up of an extruder with multiple dies. These multiple dies include at least two concentric arcuate dies that are radially spaced apart and a plurality of relatively straight dies that radially connect the concentric arcuate dies. The apparatus includes means for cooling the extrudate to solidify it into a usable condition. M...

A machine for making cinnamon rolls and the like with dough fed from a reciprocating hopper through forms inside dough discharge outlets to provide a simple spiral, or other, configuration into expressed dough, the forms having tubular portions through which flavoring material is added, a cut-off knife reciprocating across the discharge outlets determining the thickness of the individual rolls which drop onto a removable pallet or moving belt for transfer thereof to an electronic oven or its equ...

A polymer extrusion crosshead assembly for forming a spirally-striped extrusion. The assembly includes conventional components for admitting, turning, and accelerating primary molten polymer toward a novel rotating die sub-assembly. A body element includes an axial counterbore for receiving a manifold supply block in communication with a source of secondary striping polymer. A wear plate is attached to the manifold block. The die sub-assembly includes a striping die having an annular passage for...

A food product comprising a sugar wafer preferably cone-shaped having a filling of a substantially water-free fat-based confectionery material and a process for preparing it which comprises filling the sugar wafer with the substantially water-free fat-based confectionery in a molten, semi-liquid or semi-solid mass, and allowing the filling to harden.

A system produces a multi-layer product by forming as many different ingredients as is required for the final product in steps that can be separate from each other and then combining these ingredients in an extrusion die that is formed to flow the separate ingredients in side-by-side flow paths and then combine them where necessary for the final product to be formed. Specifically, two of the flow paths are sandwiched by a third flow path whereby the final product is in the form of a sandwich wit...

An apparatus for manufacturing an elongate composite element in undefined lengths, the composite element containing reinforcement fibers embedded in a matrix based on a composition containing a curable resin, including a vacuum chamber, rigid-walled inlet tubing, an impregnation chamber, rigid-walled transfer tubing between the vacuum chamber and the impregnation chamber, a sizing die and, downstream of the sizing die, irradiation tubes providing radiation in the ultraviolet-visible spectrum to ...

Apparatus is disclosed for producing synthetic plastic sheet material having a multicolor striated pattern therein. The composite stream containing at least one band of differentially colored material in a matrix resin is passed through a perforated member having apertures therein separated by narrow solid segments which results in some interference with the lineal flow of the composite stream and effects striations of the differentially colored material within the matrix. A screen member suppor...

An apparatus for injection molding a plurality of multilayer, multimaterial plastic containers. A plurality of co-injection nozzles are positioned to feed a plurality of cavities defined by a plurality of injection molds and a source of polymer materials is located upstream of the nozzles. The apparatus also includes a flow channel for each of a plurality of polymer streams to define a path between the polymer source and at least one of the co-injection nozzles such that each of the co-injection...

Within a casing (10), on each side of a center plane (A), a feeding channel (26, 28) and a pressure channel (32, 34) are defined. The pressure channels (32, 34) are converging in the direction of a jet arrangement (40). Further, within the casing (10), on each side of the center plane (A), a first and a second rotatably driven feeding roll (42, 44), respectively, are disposed each between one of the feeding channels (26, 28) and the associated pressure channel (32, 34). The feeding rolls (42, 44...