Patent ID: 8323715

Claim:
A method for the production of food products comprising a wafer shell that contains a creamy filling mass and is formed by complementary parts coupled together, the method comprising: locating wafer sheets having a matrix of said complementary parts in a first and second half-moulds, said first and second half-moulds having corresponding frontal surfaces with cavities configured to house said complementary parts; advancing said first and second half-mould on first and second conveyor lines respectively; separating said complimentary parts housed within said cavities of said first and second half-moulds from said wafer sheets; coupling said complementary parts in correspondence with a coupling station inverting at least one between said first and second mould so to bring said first and second half-mould into a configuration in which said frontal surfaces of said half-moulds are reciprocally facing; after the coupling of said complementary parts, removing one of said first and second half-moulds so that the reciprocally coupled complementary parts are left on the other of said first and second half-moulds; and after the removal of the one of said first and second half-moulds, thermally conditioning the reciprocally coupled complementary parts left on the other of said first and second half-moulds; wherein said first and second conveyor lines have a general loop path with corresponding sections of the loop trajectories mutually facing in correspondence with said coupling station, and said at least one between said first and second half-mould is inverted around an axis transverse to the advancing direction of the corresponding conveyor line.