CN1899075B - Method for continuously producing gum products - Google Patents
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The present invention discloses continuous gum producing process. The production process includes the following steps: crushing the material in a crusher into small solid fractionlets; conveying the small fractionlets to storing funnel; metering and feeding the small fractionlets to continuous extruder through the side feeder; and extruding through the main continuous extruder to produce gum product.
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The present invention relates to produce continuously the method for gum navel stores.
At present, produce the system of chewing gum base and chewing gum final product known have several.In general, chewing gum base is to be made by last chewing gum in addition, although there are several systems to produce the last product of chewing gum with a kind of continuation method.
In a word, chewing gum compositions generally comprises water-soluble body part, water-fast chewing gum base part and is generally water-fast fumet.Water-fast gum base generally comprises elastomer, elastomer solvent, filler, resin, polyvinyl acetate (PVA), fat, plasticizer, wax, emulsifying agent and other composition.Water-soluble portion disperses the fumet part when chewing, the gum base part is stayed in the mouth when product is chewed always.
Many chewing gums and chewing gum base are produced with batch process.This conventional method is generally used ∑ blade batch mixer.The gum base composition is added in the batch mixer in addition or simultaneously, then the material fusing is also mixed in time.After gum base processing, a collection of gum base of dissolving is poured in dish coating or belt material or is pumped in other the equipment such as holding tank or loader device, and extruding or casting forming made it cooling and curing before preparing to be used for chewing gum then.
Last chewing gum product also can be processed with batch process.The gum base part is added in the blender as sugar or sugar alcohol together with softening agent and filler.After a while, add fumet edible oil and fat essence and/or spray-dired spices, sweetener or acid, mix simultaneously up to reaching even.This delivery system is shown in, and for example United States Patent (USP) 4,816, in 265,5,000,965 and 5,057,328.Chewing gum block cooling is then ground after a while and is rolled, counts and be packaged into final product.
The final product or the both that also can use continuous extruder to make chewing gum base or chewing gum can make.Use the last chewing gum product of continuous extruder manufacturing for example to be shown in United States Patent (USP) 5,135,760 people such as () Degady, United States Patent (USP) 5,045,325 people such as () Lesko and the United States Patent (USP) 4,555,407 people such as () Kramer.The known method that uses continuous extruder to produce chewing gum base in this technical field has, people's such as Song United States Patent (USP) 5,4119,919 and 5,486 for example, the method in 366.
Be disclosed in continuous gum base and chewing gum product method general using continuous extruder in these patents, as double screw extruder.These extruders generally have the charging aperture of several different each composition of adding.Long bolt in this extruder barrel is equipped with dissimilar parts.The continuous extruder that can be used to make chewing gum base and chewing gum final product comprises Togum, Baker Perkins, Werner﹠amp; Pfleiderer Corp, Japan Steel Works, Leistrizetz, WLS and Buss Mfg, the extruder that Co. etc. make.
No matter use the continuous extruder type or intermittently the method for extruder type is produced chewing gum and gum base product, importantly provide the various compositions of these products with best form and situation.This can improve the speed and the efficient of last processing, and has improved the uniformity and the denseness of final product.About these, before adding intermittence or extrusion, composition such as filler, elastomer, plasticizer, resin, PVA, oil, wax etc. often need specially treated or preparation.
Extrude continuously in the processing in use, the preparation of each composition is a particular importance.Each composition that is used for continuous extrusion equipment is preferably to provide under optimum size, shape, situation (liquid, solid etc.), the temperature that adds and mix easily with other composition in extruder easily.
For gum base or the chewing gum product that reaches homogeneous phase, wherein have constant elasticity and product always and do not have piece or other scrambling, the composition that provides must be compatible with other composition, and be dispersed in as far as possible and be distributed in and want in the material processed.When preparing useful natural gum or gum base product, must consider processing and environmental condition such as temperature, humidity etc.
Generally be used in several compositions in chewing gum and the gum base product, usually be difficult to handle and processing as elastomer, hard resin, plasticizer and elastomer solvent.A kind of material that is usually used in chewing gum is polyvinyl acetate (PVA).This material is commonly used for resin, plasticizer or the elastomer of natural gum and gum base.Plasticizer also often is called softening agent.
The PVA material generally provides with solid form, promptly is packaged in disk, rhombus sheet, bead or fractionlet in bag or other container.This material is very sticking, is difficult to handle with automatic equipment, generally need join in the continuous extruder with independent fractionlet.In addition, usually need PVA is added in the main extruder through side feeder with similar material.Use this method, material can add at extrusion suitable place or proper step with the solid granule form.Such side feeder can be by for example Bues Mfg Co., Werner﹠amp; Companies such as Pfliderer Corp.andBaker Perkins obtain.
In addition, when using side feeder,, usually be difficult to clean and maintenance if from main extruder, entire equipment is not shifted out really.
General objects of the present invention provides the improved method and apparatus of making chewing gum product and gum base.A further object of the invention provides the improved method of making certain chewing gum product and gum base composition before processing and processes and improve final product to improve.
Another object of the present invention provides the method and apparatus of continuous gum base manufacturing and chewing gum product, and these chewing gum bases and product have to make peace to be formed uniformly.The present invention also has a purpose to provide to be used for the method and apparatus that chewing gum base and chewing gum product composition, particularly PVA are offered continuous extruder with the situation and the form of the best, to obtain the uniform final product of making peace.
A further object of the invention provides the improved adaptor member that is used for the side feeder extrusion equipment is connected in main extrusion equipment.
The purpose of these and other, benefit and advantage can be reached by the following narration of preferred form of the present invention.
The invention provides the improved equipment and the method that are used to produce chewing gum base and chewing gum final product.New method and apparatus and system are used for handling and processing several reluctant compositions of continuous chewing gum manufacturing system.These compositions comprise, for example resin, plasticizer and elastomer solvent are particularly including polyvinyl acetate (PVA).
The present invention uses low speed fragment equipment so that PVA etc. is ground into independent fractionlet.The fragment machine has rotating blades, particle can be divided into its original independent fractionlet or resemble the form of disk.The material that takes out is transported to the feed system of side feeder then in main extruder with air-flow.From air-flow conveying air, isolate material by the whirlwind recipient, and make material enter the storage recipient by gravity.The storage recipient plays material storage tube, disengages material by computer-controlled valve and volume loss in weight feeder.
The magnetic metal detector is used for removing any metal impurities from material.With material add main extruder machine barrel in mix and melt mutually and generate last chewing gum base or chewing gum final product with the material of fusing.
In whole process of the present invention, material remains on low temperature and the least possible physics that carries out is handled with manual.Like this, material such as PVA remain on solid-state not molten state, and further finally are being transported in the main extruder under the desired condition of processing.
A kind of adaptor member is used for side feeder being connected with main extruder and being bonded together.The adaptor member can make the major axis of side feeder regain and keep in repair and not need two extruders are taken apart.
The present invention can guarantee to obtain higher-quality final product.Because the speed in each stage of extruder and temperature and each composition keep it to be used for the further optimum level of processing, extrusion is consistent.
When considering accompanying drawing and appended claim, these and other feature, advantage and benefit of the present invention is clearly visible from following narration is summed up.
Fig. 1 is the schematic diagram of manufacturing chewing gum of the present invention or gum base method.
Fig. 2 is the schematic diagram of PVA system of processing of the present invention.
Fig. 3 is the flow chart of PVA system of processing of the present invention.
Fig. 4 is the schematic diagram of Disintegrating machine with heater of the present invention.
Fig. 5-7 explanation is used for the adaptor member of uniqueness of the present invention.
The present invention is specially adapted to process the solid constituent that is used for chewing gum base and chewing gum product, as polyvinyl acetate (PVA).In a word, the invention provides the method, apparatus and system of each composition of processing, so that it is added in chewing gum base or the chewing gum product with the method and the situation of the best easily.The situation of this best makes this chewing gum or gum base manufacture method that the one uniform final product of making peace is provided more.
About this respect, should be appreciated that the present invention can be used to prepare the solid constituent of chewing gum base or last chewing gum product and can be used for batch-type system or continuous extruder system.Yet in a preferred embodiment of the invention, for ease of the explanation this patent, the discussion here will be only with reference to the manufacturing system that is used for continuous chewing gum base.
The schematic diagram of equipment of the present invention and system is seen Fig. 1 and 2.The flow chart that basic procedure of processing of the present invention is described is seen Fig. 3.The fragment machine equipment that the present invention uses is illustrated in Fig. 4.At last, Fig. 5-7 explanation is used for side feeder is connected in unique adaptor member of main extruder of the present invention.
All know now, use continuous extrusion equipment to make chewing gum base and the last product of chewing gum.What enumerate in Fig. 1 is this class extruder 10.This extruder can be any traditional extruder, and motor and control member 12 and long cartridge unit 14 are arranged.This continuous extruder can be the traditional form in any extruder manufacturer known to today, as Japan SteelWorks, Leistriztz, Werner﹠amp; Pfleiderer Corp., Togum, WLS, BakerPerkine and Buss Mfg.Co..
In general, it is moving or opposite rotation of corotation that continuous extruder uses double screw extruder, twin-screw, sneer mutually close or be tangent line.The machine barrel 14 of these extruders has one or two long bolt parts, each composition and the material of the product that these parts mixing and processing gum base and/or natural gum are last.Dissimilar screw elements is arranged on long bolt, be used for rapidoprint.The most frequently used screw element types comprises that delivery element, compressing member, reverse delivery element, homogenizing element are as shearing disk and fastener element and kneading disk and kneading assembly.Be used in extruder, particularly these elements in the double screw extruder and other element are all known in this field, and can buy in market.These elements are the specialized designs composition that is used for the extruder of particular type and is used for the used special type of last the product that requires usually.
These extruders generally have the charging aperture of several different each composition of adding.For example shown in Figure 1, extruder 10 has first charging aperture 16, and two other charging apertures 18 and 20 are arranged in the downstream of machine barrel.In general, solid constituent such as elastomer, filler and elastomer solvent and plasticizer add in the machine barrel through charging aperture 16, and other composition generally is liquid condition, and the charging aperture 18 and 20 in the downstream adds.These other compositions comprise wax, wet goods.
In order to add some resin at extrusion, PVA, the plasticizer of (also being solid state) and or elastomer solvent, usually need to utilize side feeder, side feeder 22 as shown in FIG. 1.About this respect, side feeder can be any traditional extrusion equipment, as by Buss Mfg.Co., BakerPerkine and Werner﹠amp; Pfleiderer Corp. buys.Side feeder has motor and control member 24 and lead aircraft tube 26.Charging aperture skewed slot 28 is used for providing material to side feeder.
For preferable methods that is used for materials such as PVA and the system that makes the charging aperture 28 that enters side feeder 22 is shown in Fig. 2.Fragment equipment or member 40 be used for material separately and the preparation material make and be transported to whirlwind recipient 42 and storage recipient 44.About this respect, material is transported to whirlwind recipient 42 from fragment member 40 by air conveying system 46.The whirlwind recipient is carried air separation to go out in the air-flow of material and material is entered storage recipient 44 by gravity through valve 48.Recipient 44 plays material storage tube, and recipient is discharged into material in weightlessness (LIW) feeder 50 by computer-controlled valve 49.LIW feeder 50 remains in the funnel 44 material up to when side feeder 22 and main extruder need.Magnetic metal detector 52 is used for when material is entered the import skewed slot 28 of side feeder by feeder 50 separating metal impurity from material flows.
The details of fragment mechanism part is shown in Fig. 2 and Fig. 4.Member 40 comprises import skewed slot or casing 60, main body 62 and following transport portion 64.The openend 66 of import casing 60 is covered by fire bars 68.Rotational separator/fragment machine 70 is positioned at main body 62.Rotational separator is with low-speed handing and by motor and control member 72 controls.Fire bars 74 is positioned under the separator 70, and main body 62 and transport portion 64 are separated.
In 40 operations of fragment machine, the bag 80 of solid particulate materials is opened on fire bars 68, material is fallen and the process fire bars.If material is polyvinyl acetate (PVA), generally provide with the fractionlet that resembles disk.Yet because the fusing point of denseness and PVA, disk generally flocks together and sticks together, and therefore, under most of situation, is the piece of all size by the material of bag 80 taking-ups.
Shown in Fig. 3 is the flow chart of basic procedure of processing of the present invention.At first the PVA material is entered fragment machine 40,, be ground into and be separated into independent particle or fractionlet at this.Thus, independent fractionlet is transported to whirlwind recipient 42 through flow delivery systems 46.Thus, by gravity material is delivered to funnel or material storage tube.
What weightless (LIW) feeder 50 was regulated the PVA materials flows into side feeder 22.At this, magnetic or metal detector 52 are used for removing impurities from the PVA material.Also can in the PVA piece, comprise lubricant and interleaving agent, as talcum, Alevaire (atomite), Dicalcium Phosphate etc.Can add lubricant at any place of the present invention and can use traditional feeder equipment to realize, as the equipment among Fig. 2 55.
In case material in side feeder, is transported to material in the main extruder by the long bolt in the tube 26.At this moment, other composition 88 that is used for chewing gum base or chewing gum final product can be added to main extruder.Last product 90 is extruded from extruder 10.
Side-fed apparatus 22 of the present invention preferably can per hour be delivered to 2000 pounds of resin materials in the main feeder.Simultaneously, the side feeder that system of the present invention comprises remains on material under the condition of cooling, is enough to make the material unanimity also to enter equably in the continuous processor.
According to the present invention, importantly handle these materials as few as possible, prevent from system, to produce heat.For this reason, with the air maintenance cooling or the low temperature of flow delivery systems, for example, 50-75 °F.In addition, turning in induction system or knee keep long radius as angle 47A, 47B among Fig. 2 and 47C, and using long radius is in order to make material can not run into big resistance (this can produce unacceptable heat) quickly by delivery conduit.
In the present invention, the PVA material is divided into solid (disk, rhombus sheet, bead etc.) whole system is remained under the situation of this separation, and being added to then also is in the main extruder of similarity condition.By controlling the temperature of whole process, and provide material with the state that separates, the charging rate of material and the quantity of material that is added in the main extruder can accurately be controlled.This causes better quality and more equal final products of even unanimity.
The critical piece of system is preferably made by stainless steel material.This comprises fragment machine 40, the conduit that is used in induction system 46, whirlwind recipient 42, recipient 44 and loss in weight feeder 50 at least.In addition, as the part of temperature control system, whirlwind recipient 42 and storage recipient 44 are respectively with outside water leg 43,45 coolings.
The adaptor 30 that is used in uniqueness of the present invention is shown in Fig. 5-7.Adaptor 30 has major part or main element and the connectors parts 94 that expose.Connectors parts 94 generally have " 8 " shape hole 96, this hole help material from the side the twin-screw of feeder 22 enter main extruder.Front curved surface 98 shapes of the parts 94 of connectors are coordinated mutually with main aperture side or passage in the machine barrel 14 of main extruder.In main body 92 many holes 100 are arranged, in order to adaptor 30 is connected to side feeder 22 and main extruder 10, the bolt or other fastener that are positioned at hole 100 are used for two extruders and adaptor are linked together.
By adaptor 10, the bolt in the machine barrel 26 of side feeder 22 and other element can take out under the side feeder and work on not needing to move with respect to main extruder.In this way, can change and repair not needing to remove any parts of side feeder from main extruder or do not need to disturb under cooling pipeline, connector and other electrical equipment conduit and the pipeline side feeder, motor and control member 24 and machine barrel 26.Specifically, this adaptor 30 can make screw part and the axle in the machine barrel in side feeder regain and take out, and side feeder and main extruder need not be taken apart.This has just saved the space of manufacturing equipment, also makes the repairing of side feeder and improvement easier, and can reduce expenses.
Although discussed and thought embodiment preferred of the present invention at present, but, those those skilled in the art will be understood that, conversion of carrying out so far and modification do not depart from spiritual essence of the present invention and scope, and plan all changes and improvements that belong to true scope of the present invention are included in the following claim.
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1. the processing solid material is to be used to add and be used for the method for continuous extrusion system manufacturing chewing gum product, and described method comprises:
(a) material is added the fragment machine equipment;
(b) described material is divided into independent solid fractionlet;
(c) the independent fractionlet of cooling;
(d) described independent fractionlet is transported in the acceptor device;
(e) described fractionlet is metered into side feeder; With
(f) described fractionlet is joined in the main extruder.
2. the process of claim 1 wherein that described material is a polyvinyl acetate.
3. the process of claim 1 wherein that the described side feeder in location makes itself and main extruder substantial lateral.
4. the process of claim 1 wherein that described side feeder is transported to described material in the described main extruder.
5. the method for claim 1 further is included in location, the junction adaptor member of described side feeder and main extruder.
6. the process of claim 1 wherein that described fragment machine equipment comprises fire bars.
7. the method for claim 7, wherein said material fall and through fire bars.
8. the process of claim 1 wherein lubricant is added fractionlet.
9. the process of claim 1 wherein that described acceptor device is the whirlwind recipient.
10. the method for claim 9, wherein said material is fed to funnel or material storage tube from the whirlwind recipient.
11. the method for claim 6, wherein said fragment machine equipment further comprise rotational separator member, second fire bars member and the transfer member.
12. the method for claim 11, wherein said fragment machine equipment further comprises the import skewed slot.
13. the method for claim 12, one of wherein said fire bars covers the openend of the import skewed slot of described fragment machine equipment.
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