Patent ID: 8371836
Filing Date: 2013-02-12
Classification: A22C,A23G,A23P,Y10T

Abstract:
1. Method of manufacturing a rotatable moulding drum for moulding three-dimensional products from a mass of foodstuff starting materials which are suitable for consumption, comprising the following steps: providing a cylindrical, single, continuous, one-piece drum wall of porous plastic or porous sintered metal forming a porous structure of intercommunicating pores opening out at an inner peripheral surface and an outer peripheral surface of the drum wall, sealing off at least the pores opening out at the outer peripheral drum wall surface, sealing off the pores opening out at the inner peripheral drum wall surface, and forming multiple mould cavities in the outer peripheral surface of the porous moulding drum wall so that the pores open out in the mould cavities, which mould cavities define the shape of the products which are to be produced.