A method of forming an oral product includes extruding a mixture, conveying the extruded mixture through one or more pairs of forming rollers, and cutting the extruded mixture into one or more oral products. The mixture can include polymer and at least one flavorant, sweetener, active ingredient, or combination thereof. The extruded mixture forms an extrudate having a predetermined cross-sectional shape. The one or more pairs of forming rollers abut to define a passage there between as each forming roller rotates. The passage has a cross-sectional shape corresponding to the predetermined cross-sectional shape. The method can be performed using a machine including an extruder, one or more pairs of forming rollers, and a cutting device.

The present disclosure provides apparatuses and methods for non-contact printing on comestible products. The apparatus includes an extruder for extruding a slab of an edible substrate and a non-contact printing device for printing an edible ink on the slab. The apparatus provides versatility as the printing device may be placed anywhere along the apparatus. The printing device may be positioned along the apparatus as desired to operate in cooperation with other components of the apparatus.

The invention relates to the fields of medicines, chemistry, and food products, and specifically relates to a rolling mold combination device, a method using a rolling mold to prepare a freeze-dried excipient, and a product thereof. The method has the advantage of being able to engrave any character or pattern at any part of a mold, and correspondingly, can produce the character or pattern at any part of a manufactured product, including a product name or trademark, and such an effect cannot be obtained in existing freeze-dried excipient products. The manufactured product can be designed to be any shape and does not readily break inside packaging, reducing loss of medicines and enabling accurate dosages thereof. The method of preparing a freeze-dried excipient adopts mold-release freeze-drying, and a mold does not re-enter a freeze-drying step, improving production efficiency, decreasing production cost, saving energy and protecting the environment.

A cake surfacing device that includes: a base; a pedestal extending vertically from the base; a turn table at the top of the pedestal adapted to receive a cake; an arm support extending from the pedestal; a swivel arm attached to the arm support, where the swivel arm includes a connecting end; a plastic container, where the plastic container surrounds the cake; and a surfacing blade within the plastic container where the surfacing blade extends from a top center of the plastic container to one side of the plastic container. The turn table is preferably adapted to rotate. The swivel arm includes a connecting end with a connecting pin, where the connecting pin engages the plastic container. The plastic container includes a connecting crown which receives the connecting pin.

A cake surfacing device that includes: a base; a pedestal extending vertically from the base; a turn table at the top of the pedestal adapted to receive a cake; an arm support extending from the pedestal; a swivel arm attached to the arm support, where the swivel arm includes a connecting end; a plastic container, where the plastic container surrounds the cake; and a surfacing blade within the plastic container where the surfacing blade extends from a top center of the plastic container to one side of the plastic container. The turn table is preferably adapted to rotate. The swivel arm includes a connecting end with a connecting pin, where the connecting pin engages the plastic container. The plastic container includes a connecting crown which receives the connecting pin.

The invention generally relates to a cartridge comprising a gel. The invention further relates to a process for the preparation of an item of confectionery, an item of confectionery, a kit, the use of a cartridge for preparing an item of confectionery, a gel, and a process for preparing an item of confectionery via a data connection. The invention relates to a cartridge comprising the following cartridge components: a. a container having an internal volume; b. a gel comprising: i. a hydrocolloid, and ii. a sweetener different to the hydrocolloid; wherein the gel is not a fluid.

A system (1) for producing foods, in particular a chocolate system, comprising at least one treatment station and at least one industrial robot (2, 3), which comprises at least one effector (4) having at least one receiving device for at least one product carrier (14) and comprises at least one manipulator (13) for transferring the at least one product carrier (14). The industrial robot (2, 3) additionally comprises at least one control device, preferably at least one associated processing device, and the control device is or can be set in such a way that the product carrier (14), preferably at and/or opposite a treatment station and/or between two treatment stations, can be shaken, spun, turned, rotated, slid, raised, lowered, blown at, suctioned out, cleaned, stacked and/or unstacked, cleared out by knocking, emptied, filled, temperature-controlled, and/or, in particular under sensor control, moved along a predetermined path.

A method and apparatus for producing popping candy which is formed in molds. A reactor with one or more trays holds the product and one or more moveable transmission mechanisms and one or more lids provided at each end of the reactor act as inlets and outlets. One or more two way valves regulate and maintain inside pressure of the reactor and cooling and heating mechanisms are provided.

The present disclosure describes an ultrasonic rotary molding system that is used to form edible compositions or food products as they move along a conveyor belt. The food products are formed by an ultrasonic rotary wheel that includes one or more cutting tools that cut, and perhaps three dimensionally mold, food product strips. The system may include a movable backing plate that is located below the point where the ultrasonic rotary wheel cuts the food product strips. The movable backing plate may be spring loaded and it may exert force upwards against the conveyor belt and in turn against the food product.

A hard candy, namely lollipops, suckers or similar confectionary comestibles and a method of making and packaging the same by a depositing manufacturing process which produces a multi-colored and multi-flavored lollipop which colors and flavors extend entirely through the lollipop body and hard shell and are visible in the final packaging and particularly to a double depositing method and apparatus incorporating a soft chewy center into a deposited lollipop body which soft center is entirely surrounded by and of a different consistency and viscosity from the hard outer candy shell.