Patent ID: 8784091

Claim:
A system for dosing a food product onto a support comprising: a dosing device for co-extruding at least two food materials at the same time to form a multi-component food product, the dosing device comprising a static core element housing at least a first and a second supply, the first supply having at least one orifice connected to an extrusion channel which is positioned coaxially to an extrusion channel connected to an orifice of the second supply; and a cylindrical tube element rotatable relative to and enclosing the core element, having a plurality of apertures distributed over an entirety of a circumference of the tube element, the apertures designed to be selectively brought into a coaxial position to the extrusion channels of the first and second supplies by rotating the cylindrical tube element, allowing a co-extrusion of food materials to be introduced into the first and second supplies of the core element, the first and second supplies in the tube element are cylinders that differ in diameter and are arranged co-parallel to the longitudinal axis of the core element and to each other and perpendicular to the extrusion channels.