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Packaging a comestible without conditioning

A food and packaging line technology, applied in the field of food manufacturing, can solve the problems of increasing the total time of manufacturing confectionery and reducing manufacturing efficiency.

Pending Publication Date: 2020-08-11
INTERCONTINENTAL GREAT BRANDS LLC
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This disruption in the manufacturing process increases the overall time to manufacture the confectionary and reduces manufacturing efficiency by requiring manual transfer of the confectionary to and from the production line.
Additionally, additional time and space is required to manufacture food due to preventing the manufacturing system from becoming an "online" system

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[0110] Food products discussed herein include any type of edible product such as, but not limited to, chewing gum (at any stage, including elastomers, semi-finished bases, finished chewing gum bases, and finished chewing gum ), confectionary (may be synonymous with chewing gum and candy), chocolate, gummies, fudge, sweet and savory biscuits. For ease of description, the food product will be referred to as chewing gum in the remainder of the specification. Certain compositions of the chewing gum may have a non-uniform texture and / or be multilayered.

[0111] Referring now to the drawings, a forming station 20 is used during the manufacture of food products. As described herein, "forming" occurring at forming station 20 may be construed to include manipulating or forming food mass 22 into one or more shapes having desired dimensions. Setting can occur simultaneously with shaping. Any forming station 20 capable of performing any type of forming operation is within the scope of...

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A method of manufacturing a comestible includes providing a comestible mass (22), forming said comestible mass into a comestible structure (26) having a desired shape using a forming station (20), andapplying a packaging material (54) to a surface of said comestible structure (26) while said comestible structure remains in contact with a portion of said forming station (20).

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to food manufacturing methods and systems, and more particularly, to methods and systems for packaging food products directly after shaping and setting the food products. Background technique [0002] Typically, the methods of making and packaging food products such as confectionary or chewing gum are time consuming and involve extensive machinery. For example, a method of making and packaging a gum product may include mixing and producing finished gum as a non-uniform output, extruding and forming finished gum into bars, conditioning bars of finished gum, Bar extrusion into a continuous thin sheet of finished gum, rolling the continuous sheet through a series of rollers to a uniform reduced thickness, scoring and separating the sheet into individual scored sheets, conditioning in a conditioning chamber Individual sheets, dividing the sheets into gum pieces and packaging the gum pieces. Such methods of making and packagi...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): B65B25/08A23G4/04A22C7/00B65B35/24B65B65/00
CPCA23G3/0025A23G3/50A23G4/04A23G7/0062B65B35/24B65B65/003B65B1/366B65B1/385B65B25/00B65B25/005B65B25/08B65B61/06
Inventor D·莱曾加B·亚尼C·布西内利B·莫达克
Owner INTERCONTINENTAL GREAT BRANDS LLC