Arthur W. Upmann;Jim Olejarski;Joseph Roarty;James A. Duggan
发明人:
Jim Olejarski,Joseph Roarty,Arthur W. Upmann,James A. Duggan
申请号：
US13483638
公开号：
US09028894B2
申请日:
2012.05.30
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2015
代理人:
摘要：
Gum manufacturing machinery and method of manufacturing gum is illustrated in which a gum loafing machine generates loaves of finished gum that are then subsequently run through a gum conditioner to more uniformly set the temperature and viscosity of the gum material prior to further processing. Upon achieving the appropriate conditioning level, a further forming extruder may be used to generate a continuous gum ribbon for subsequent rolling and scoring operations. The gum conditioner may include vertically stacked conveyors that have different operational modes including a first mode that provides a serpentine path for a long residence time and a second mode that provides a cascading path that avoids or bypasses much of the length of some of the conveyors to provide a shorter residence time. The gum manufacturing machinery may be used in an adjustable manner so as to accommodate difference gum recipes for different batches of gum product.
