APPARATUS FOR NONCONTACT FORMING AND COOLING OF MILK CANDY MASS Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: food- processing industry. SUBSTANCE: apparatus has conveyor with working pneumatic chamber, holding chamber, feeding conveyor, and casting device. Working pneumatic chamber is defined by side walls and plated chain conveyor belt formed of two plates movable relative to one another in vertical plane. Upper plate is provided with one row of perforated candy mass receiving cells and lower plate has perforated cells filled with spherical grains of flexible material. Upper and lower cells are joined with one another. Construction of apparatus allows flow rate and difference characteristics of cells at different parts of apparatus to be adjusted and, accordingly, temperature of candy mass during cooling, forming and proofing processes to be regulated in accordance with characteristics of complex nature. EFFECT: increased efficiency, reduced loss of gas through working surfaces of cells at idle part of conveyor and improved quality of ready product. 4 dwg