GB1486483A - Apparatus for the production of hollow confections provided with centre fillings - Google Patents

Abstract

1486483 Moulding confectionery AUGUST STORCK KG 5 Feb 1975 [16 July 1974] 4976/75 Heading B5A Hollow confections with centre fillings are produced in apparatus comprising transversely spaced rows of cup-shaped centrifugal moulds 5 mounted on an intermittently driven chain conveyer 1 for rotation about their vertical axes after receiving a metered charge, e.g. of chocolate. Each mould has a depending stem 14 rotatably mounted in a holder 4 and carrying a clutch member 16a, 16b which, at a mould spinning station B, is located above a driven clutch member 21 on a holder 27 whereby when the holder is raised, e.g. by a cam mechanism the clutch members are brought into engagement. The member 21 is supported by a slide 28 Fig. 5 displaceable slightly in the conveying direction of the moulds so that the clutch members are brought into axial alignment on engagement. At the station B two transversely extending rows of moulds are rotated by a drive which allows the said movements of the clutch member's arranged in pairs, each pair being carried by a slide 28. Each member 21 is axially slidable on a driving spindle 24, Fig. 2, with a collar 25 and drive pins 35. Radial slots in the member 21 receive radial ribs of the clutch member 16a 16b. The bottom end of each spindle 24 is connected by a crank coupling 36, Fig. 5, to a drive shaft 37; the latter are geared together by pinions 39 driven by an intermediate gear engaging a main gear driven by a motor through a universal joint shaft. The apparatus of Fig. 1 includes means 6-9 supplying, respectively, to two rows of moulds, an oil spray, a metered charge of chocolate, a filler such as nuts, raisins and a covering material. The filled moulds pass through a cooling chamber 10 in which the confections are ejected from the inverted moulds by means 11 which depresses ejector pins 17, 19, Fig. 2. The empty moulds then traverse a heating chamber 13.