Patent ID: 6403132
Filing Date: 2002-06-11
Classification: A21C,A23L,A23P

Abstract:
An apparatus for simultaneously infusing flavors into cereal grains and agglomerating such grains into a unitary food product with said grains containing said infused flavors, said apparatus including:surface moistened, mixed and flavored cereal grains; a chambered plate containing at least one product-forming chamber for receiving said surface moistened, mixed and flavored cereal grains; an ultrasonic tool having a product-forming tool cavity, said plate and said tool being movable relative to each other whereby, when said tool is actuated and said tool is positioned within said chamber, said cavity in said ultrasonic tool confines and compresses said cereal grains received in said chamber and transfers energy to said grains and said flavors, thereby infusing said flavors into the bodies of said individual cereal grains and causing said cereal grains to adhere to one another so as to form said unitary flavored cereal product.