FIELD: food industry. SUBSTANCE: continuous chewing gum formulation production process includes stage of continuous addition of rigid elastomer, filler, and lubricating agents (including softener) into continuous mixer 10. All these components are subjected to dispersion mixing operation followed by distributive mixing. Resulting formulation is continuously discharged from mixer. Softener is loaded into mixer 10 through multiple spaced ingredient feed entries 12, 13, 15. Softener is selected from fats, oils, waxes, emulsifiers, and their mixtures. Chewing gum is manufactured from chewing gum formulation by adding required chewing gum ingredients. EFFECT: enabled continuity of process. 23 cl, 38 dwg, 4 tbl, 17 ex
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2000-08-27—Published
1995-03-13—Filed