Patent ID: 8677943

Claim:
A method of making a chew toy of interwoven strips of one or more of edible resins, comprising; providing a first edible resin material and a second edible resin material; providing at least a first extruder having a first plurality of dies and a second extruder having a second plurality of dies; charging said first edible resin material into said first extruder and said second edible resin material into said second extruder; and extruding said first edible resin material through said first plurality of dies and extruding said second edible resin material through said second plurality of dies to form a first plurality of strips and a second plurality of strips; wherein: said first plurality of strips are configured in parallel fashion to each other in a first plane; said second plurality of strips are configured in parallel fashion to each other in a second plane; and the method further comprises interweaving said first plurality of strips and said second plurality of strips into a planar article by passing said first plurality of strips through said second plurality of strips in alternating fashion such that one or more of said first plurality of strips passes first over and then under one or more of said second plurality of strips.