Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus for producing multiple food extrudates
- Patent Title (中): 用于生产多种食品挤出物的方法和设备
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Application No.: US12758441Application Date: 2010-04-12
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Publication No.: US08287262B2Publication Date: 2012-10-16
- Inventor: James N. Weinstein , Kevin Wright
- Applicant: James N. Weinstein , Kevin Wright
- Applicant Address: US MN Minneapolis
- Assignee: General Mills, Inc.
- Current Assignee: General Mills, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MN Minneapolis
- Agent Everett Diederiks, Jr.
- Main IPC: B29C47/04
- IPC: B29C47/04

Abstract:
An apparatus (10) for forming a single extrudable food stream such as a cooked cereal dough into a plurality of differently colored and/or flavored dough streams is disclosed including an extruder (12) having screw augers (15) for advancing a plastic food mass, a head or manifold (118) for dividing the plastic food mass into a plurality of substreams each in turn in fluid communication with a plurality of sub-divided dough passageways, and a die head (30) having a plurality of die ports (40). Each subpassage is separately supplied an additive and has disposed therein a multiplicity of in-line static mixer elements (59) to admix the additive into the substreams of the plastic food mass before passage through the die ports (40). In a preferred form, first and second substreams are intermixed in a non-homogenous manner before reaching the exit ports (40). The extrudates are severed into individual pieces (158) by a rotary cutter (36).
Public/Granted literature
- US20110250337A1 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING MULTIPLE FOOD EXTRUDATES Public/Granted day:2011-10-13
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