Patent ID: 6726462
Filing Date: 2004-04-27
Classification: A23G

Abstract:
Apparatus for forming a novelty from a mouldable material, said apparatus comprisinga carousel having a plurality of open mould cavities, said carousel being rotatable so as to index each cavity to a plurality of stations including a filling station having a nozzle for conveying material from the nozzle into one of the mould cavities of the carousel when appropriately indexed therewith, the indexed mould cavity being closed so as to define a recess for filling by the material, said nozzle being capable of co-acting with said carousel by relative movement, upon rotation of the carousel, to shear a quantity of the material within the recess from material still within said nozzle, and a cavity emptying station causing movement of the material contained within said one mould cavity of the carousel out of the one mould cavity onto a support surface while retaining, at least in part, some of a shape of the one mould cavity in the material.