Patent ID: 7442026
Filing Date: 2008-10-28
Classification: A23G

Abstract:
1. A confectionary product forming device comprising: a first roller including first product-forming pockets; a second roller including second product-forming pockets, the second product-forming pockets aligned with the first product-forming pockets; at least one motion producing device coupled operably to the first and second rollers and operable to cause the first and second rollers to rotate and define in a confectionary mass fed into the rollers a plurality of three dimensional confectionary shapes caused by the first and second pockets; and wherein the rollers are configured to have at least one adhesion reducing device that sufficiently reduces adhesion between the confectionary mass and the rollers so that neither the mass nor the rollers require cooling, the adhesion reducing device including air domes provided with the first and second pockets and shaped to trap air between the pockets and the three dimensional confectionary shapes in the pockets.