Patent ID: 7810446

Claim:
A system for continuously coating cores of gum material comprising: a first elongated rotating drum member having a first end and a second end, said first drum member being tilted at an angle relative to horizontal; a batch-type mixer mechanism for providing an initial coating of material on cores of gum material before said cores of gum material are introduced into said first drum member; the cores of gum material being introduced into said first drum member at said first end and being removed from said drum member at said second end; a plurality of nozzles positioned in said first drum member for applying a first sugar syrup coating material on the cores of gum material in said first drum member as said cores of gum material proceed through said first drum member from said first end to said second end; a supply of heated air, said air being introduced into said first drum member in order to dry the coating materials as they are applied to the cores of gum material; wherein said cores of material are processed in said first drum member on a first in-first out basis; a conveyor mechanism for transporting said cores of gum material from said first drum member to a second elongated rotating drum member, wherein said second drum member has a first end and a second end, said second drum member being tilted at an angle relative to horizontal; the cores of gum material being introduced into said second drum member at said first end and being removed from said second drum member at said second end; a plurality of nozzles positioned in said second drum member for applying a second sugar syrup coating material including a different amount of sugar than said first sugar syrup coating material on the cores of gum material in said second drum member as said cores of gum material proceed through said second drum member from said first end to said second end; and a supply of heated air, said air being introduced into said second drum member in order to dry the coating materials as they are applied to the cores of gum material; wherein said cores of material are processed in said second drum member on a first in-first out basis.