US3529553A - Process and apparatus for the preparation of hollow and convex shaped thermoplastic masses such as chocolate and candy - Google Patents

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US3529553A
US3529553A US637221A US3529553DA US3529553A US 3529553 A US3529553 A US 3529553A US 637221 A US637221 A US 637221A US 3529553D A US3529553D A US 3529553DA US 3529553 A US3529553 A US 3529553A
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  • An apparatus for the simultaneous production and packaging of hollow and convexly shaped products having shells made from thermoplastic materials, such as chocolate, sugar and the like comprising a material container equipped with dispensing means and means to control said dispensing means; a source of heat to plasticize said materials in said container into a fluid melt; means to removably position in sequence and support foil linings under said material container for filling said linings; means to fill said foil lining with said melt from said container; cooling means to cool at least a portion of said foil linings and the fill, maintaining a temperature below 0C. to solidify a shell from the fill adjacent the inner surface of said lining, leaving the core of said fill fluid; and suction means to evacuate the still fluid core from said shells.
  • the prior art also fills a closed hollow shell, made of foil, with a chocolate mass by means of an injection molding process.
  • the wall of the injection mold is brought to the temperatures of 5C. to -l5C., in order to obtain a uniformly crystalline structure of the cacao butter.
  • thermoplastic products including shells and half-shells of edible materials such as cocoa products, chocolate, candies and similar;
  • the foil mold In contradistinction to an injection method, it is unnecessary for the foil mold to be in contact with a cooled surface on all sides thereof, and the cooled surface can have a relatively simple shape, thus making the device less expensive.
  • a first cooled surface is provided with a channel, the cross section of which is adapted to mate with that of the foil molds, and a conveying device is provided for moving the foil molds along in the channel.
  • the channel touches only oppositely positioned outer surfaces of the foil mold.
  • the inventor has discovered, surprisingly, that such contact is sufficient for rapidly producing the shells, and that the shells of mass form on all sides with a suffithe inner su face the mold ciently uniform thickness, particularly when the foil molds are metallic.
  • the channel makes it possible to conduct a continuous molds after the excess mass has been removed by suction. This accelerates the manufacturing process particularly when one or several additional masses are filled as cores into the mass shells.
  • the second cooled surface may be in communication with conduits through which a refrigerant is flowing.
  • the first cooled surface also is the surface of a heat accumulator.
  • the heat accumulators are brought into contact with a refrigerating device at a predetermined place. Thereby heat is removed from the heat accumulators until they reach the desired low temperature. Then, they receive the foil molds at another location and cool the mass filled therein, heat being transferred to the heat accumulators.
  • the accumulators are sufficiently large to prevent the temperature of the first cooled surface" from increasing unduly. Thereafter, the foil molds are removed from the heat accumulators, and the latter again are brought into contact with the refrigerating unit.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 show schematically in vertical axial section and in a top view respectively, a continuously operating device with a cooling plate and heat accumulators, which receive the foil molds;
  • FIG. 3 is a vertical section through a foil mold inserted in a heat accumulator, wherein a shell of mass has formed;
  • FIG. 4 shows a schematic lateral view of a continuously operating device with heat accumulators passing by cooling plates and receiving foil molds impressed into a strip
  • FIG. 4a is a view of a she'll wa l lfthic kness sensor
  • FIG. 5 is a schematic lateral view of part of a modified embodiment, wherein individual foil molds are employed and locked inside the heat accumulators;
  • FIG. 5a is a cross sectional view of a detail applicable to FiGs. 4 and 5';
  • FIG. 6 is a partial perspective view of foil molds conveyed along in cool channels
  • FIG. 7 is a perspective view of a refrigerating device comprising two foldable containers, with respective foil half shells;
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 illustrate a number of heat accumulators l in the form of metal blocks provided with depressions 3 adapted I to receive the foil molds 2.
  • the foil molds can be produced by embossing in a conventional manner and inserted into the .sion, a small amount of air is retained in the container, or a steel membrane is provided in its wall.
  • FIG. 8 shows a perspective view of the closed refrigerating I
  • a hollow refrigerating table top 5 is in communication with a cycling refrigerant by conduits 11, and has the cooling medium flowing therethrough.
  • the refrigerant is uniformly distributed across the entire inner surface at the top of the table.
  • the table top is insulated against heat dissipation toward the bottom and the sides by an insulating layer 17.
  • the heat accumulators 1 rest directly on the upper surface of the table top 5.
  • a circular carrier plate 19 of insulating material is provided as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2' which has openings 20 corresponding to the positions of the heat accumulators 1.
  • the carrier plate 19 rotates about an axis 21 and thereby slidingly moves the heat accumulators 1 across the table top 5.
  • pre-embossed foil molds 2 are inserted into the depressions 3 manually or automatically.
  • the carrier plate 19 is shown rotating anticlockwise in the direction of arrow 25.
  • the pouring spouts may be attached to the underside of a material dispensing container shown in diagram.
  • the container preferably is equipped with valve and automatic controls thereofand is connected by conduits to the spouts 27.
  • the still flowable mass is removed by suction by tubes 31.
  • the foil molds with the mass shells are removed from the heat accumulators 1 automatically or manually, for example, with the aid of a suction nipple. which lifts the shells out, or with the aid of a knife spatula placed underneath the flange 4 of the foil molds, or by pincers grasping the foil, or by other equivalent means.
  • FIG. 4 shows an alternative embodiment of a continuously operating device, in a lateral view, wherein the heat accumulators 241 rotate in a vertical plane, with the longitudinal paths to be provided between the individual operating stations of the system being shown considerably shortened for easier illustration.
  • the heat accumulators are solid bodies guided along an endless heat accumulators forwarding track of conventional means, such as chains, belts and guides pushing, pulling, grasping or carrying the accumulators. Along a portion of this track, the heat accumulators slide along the upper and lower surfaces of a cooling plate 33 which has the cooling medium flowing therethrough and produces the same effect as the table top 5 according to FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • the foil molds 242 may be embossed into a continuous foil strip 34, or they may be produced by other conventional means, such as blister m de foils.
  • the strip is moved forward stepwise in the direction of the left hand arrow of FIG. 4, together with the heat accumulators 1.
  • the accumulators move to the top at G, and receive the foil molds in their recesses.
  • the heat accumulators are moved along underneath the processing stations with the foil molds positioned in these accumulators, in a stepwise manner. Underneath a material dispensing kettle 35, the foil molds are filled to the brim.
  • a suction tube 31 is lowered into the still flowable mass in synchronism with the operating cycle, and removes the mass by suction into a container 37.
  • the tube is then moved upwardly again.
  • a radiant heating device 39 serves for keeping the tube 31 warm.
  • the mass sucked into the container 37 is again heated to the pouring temperature and fed to the pouring kettle 35.
  • an additional pouring device 41 is provided for the introduction of a filling mass as a core.
  • a pouring device 43 may be incorporated for covering the filling mass with a third mass, a cover.
  • cooling plates 45 and 46 are arranged behind the pouring devices 41 and 43. These plates have a refrigerant flowing therethrough, same as the cooling plate 33.
  • the plates can be provided very closely above the upper surface of the heat accumulators. Since the chocolate mass does not adhere to deeply cooled metallic surfaces, there is no danger of contaminating the cooling plates.
  • an insulating plate 47 can be arranged above the heat accumulators, which prevents the molds from absorbing heat from the surroundings.
  • the foil strips 34 with the mass shells or bodies positioned therein are released by the downward movement of the heat accumulators. Thereafter, the foil strips are divided by cutting in a'conventional manner. The foil edges are closed over the chocolate articles. Beforehand, a cover leaf (sheet) can be placed thereon and secured thereto.
  • the heat accumulators 1 move from the right to the left in sliding engagement between the cooling'plate 33 and a further cooling plate 56, and thus are pre-cooled again to the required low temperature,
  • the cooling plates 33 and 56, as well as the table top 5 in FIG. 1 have preferable temperatures between -20 and -40C.
  • the plate 56 is insulated against heat absorption at the sides and at the bottom by an insulating layer 57. If the requirements to be met are lower, the cooling plate 56 can also be omitted and can be replaced by an insulating layer protecting the underside of the heat accumulators against the absorption of heat.
  • FIG. 5 an additional equipment to follow that of FIG. 4 is shown.
  • a closing device 61 is arranged in succession of progress behind the cooling plate 46. It operates against the heat accumulators and closes the edges of the foils.
  • the closing device is a pressure block discharging the pre-embossed foil molds, one at a time. In order to raise the foil edges before the closing process proper takes place, the bodies of the mass can be pressed downwardly, together with the foil mold, into the opening of the heat accumulators, so that the foil edges are raised at the upper rim of the heat accumulators.
  • depressions are provided in the cooling plate 33. Plunger pistons advance toward the bodies and foil molds from above and below and take care of the upward and downward motion. It is also possible to feed cover sheets, over which the foil edges are closed.
  • Closed hollow bodies can be produced by closing two heat accumulators, each of which contains a half shell, upon each other.
  • the half shells of mass can be fused by melting at the edges thereof which are still somewhat moist.
  • the projecting foil edges are then folded together in the clos-
  • the results of the determination of the improper thickness of the shell-wall vary mechanically by linkages, electrically by decrease or delay, respectively, the refrigerant's coolingof the' melt.
  • the means to vary include variable speed motors of the refrigeration and/or the drive system coupled for instance with potentiometers to increase the voltage across the motors as a simple means to accomplish this.
  • the automation mechanism while applicable also to the embodiment shown in FIGS. I and 2, is specifically illustrated with reference to FIG. 4.
  • a mold positioning control and a foil lining positioning control position a lining within a mold at the beginning of the operation on the conveyor means.
  • a step motor 200 causes the conveyor to be stepped to bring the molds beneath the successive stations.
  • the stations are spaced relative to the length of the molds in such a manner that at each stop one mold is placed in succession into the operating areas of each station simultaneously.
  • the electric controls of each station are controlled by a plurality of corresponding switches 202--204 and 206-209, which in turn are controlled by a timing cam 212 driven by an electric motor 214.
  • the melt contained in container 35 is dispensed into the foil-lining of the mold through a solenoid valve 220, the opening of which is energized by switch 202.
  • Container 35 is heated by a heating coil 222 which maintains the melt in its melted condition.
  • the temperature of the melt is controlled by means of a thermocouple 224 or equivalent heat sensor, connected to a heat control circuit 226, which controls the current in the heating coil.
  • a thermocouple 224 or equivalent heat sensor connected to a heat control circuit 226, which controls the current in the heating coil.
  • an individual foil filled with the melt proceeds preferably through a vibrator to settle down the melt and arrives at the evacuating station underneath container 37.
  • the outlet 31 of this container is positioned so as to be reciprocated vertically into and out of the mold. During the travel from container 35 to container 37, the outer surface of the melt was cooled to solidify a shell only.
  • a switch 206 serves to energize the reciprocating outlet, while the mold stationary underneath, and the same switch means controls the suction pump 228 to evacuate the heated fluid core from the solidified shell.
  • a conduit 230 is provided between the containers 35 and 37, and the suction pump simultaneously conveys the evacuated melt from the core through container 37 back to container 35.
  • heaters 232 are provided for heating the recycled melt. While one heater is shown provided at conduit 230, another may be installed to heat container 37.
  • the thickness of its wall is measured by a sensor 233 to develop a control signal to establish and to correct in the successive shell formation the desired wall thickness. Above mentioned temperature of below 20C. makes the shell harder and resist'ant to shock handling and permits an optimum increase in speed.
  • a sensor which actually physically measures the diameter of the core and must be inserted into it
  • vertical sensor reciprocating means are provided. This is accomplished by a sensor control switch 206 controlled by the common timing cam and a conventional motor.
  • a closed caliper'sensor illustrated in FIG. 4a
  • a latch opens on impact with the mold, and releases its arms until they are stopped by the wall of the shell.
  • the arms are connected to sliding taps of a potentiometer connected across the battery, to develop a control signal in a manner well known in the prior art.
  • the output signal is fed to a speed control circuit 234 of motor 236 which drives the refrigerator circulating pump 238.
  • the speed of circulation of the refrigerant is altered to provide temperature necessary to cause creation of a shell wall of the desired thickness.
  • the shell proceeds from there underneath a series of fill containers 4! and 43 and a cover-providing container 240, each of which is equipped with a solenoid valve, controlled by switches 207, 208 and 209 respectively, which in turn are controlled by timing cam 212. While only one timing cam 212 is shown, it is to be understood that individual, relatively adjustable carns, all driven by motor 214, may be provided for each switch, to permit minor timing adjustments of the operations at each station.
  • the step motor may include conventional means of adjustment of the duration of each stop and to synchronize the stops with the operations of the afore-mentioned switches.
  • the invention includes means and steps to synchronize the travel of the material through the apparatus with means to control the several steps and stations thereof and to synchronize operably the functions of the various apparatus means and process steps disclosed, by said control means as shown schematically in FIG. 4 as an example only.
  • the latch mechanism illustrated in FIG. 4a as an example only of a wall thickness sensing means is shown equipped with a spring, which opens the calipers on impact of the latch-arm with the rim of the mold which raises the latch-arm upwards.
  • reciprocating means are provided which withdraw the caliper vertically upwards and reload the latch-arm.
  • a biasing spring is provided for this purpose in the latch mechanism.
  • Other conventional means for determining the thickness of the shell wall are to be included as equivalents.
  • the track in the embodiment of FIG. 1 depicts the platform 19, endlessly rotatably moving over and parallel to the cooling table 5, and carrying the molds with the linings therein, or the foil-linings themselves functioning as the molds.
  • the endless track means are described to move linearly over the table the molds with the linings inserted therein, or the foil-linings themselves functioning as the molds.
  • a material container equipped with dispensing means and means to control said dispensing means
  • the heat accumulators are connected with the rotating chain 49 only at the right end by hinge connections.
  • the heat accumulators 1 are pivoted 180 until they abut a stop 52.
  • Means such as a lever protruding horizontally into the path of the accumulator and positioned to trip the lower forward bottom edge thereof, as the accumulator progresses toward it, will accomplish this object, the accumulator will turn upside down as shown in FIG. 4, and its own impact normally will knock out the package from the mold, and the package will drop on a second tract positioned below. This is depicted in FIG. 5.
  • the packaged chocolate bodies 53 are then transported away by a conveyor belt 55.
  • the heat accumulators l in this device, travel with their openings oriented downwardly between the cooling plates 33 and 56. At the left-hand end of the device, they are again turned by 180, so that their depressions face upwardly.
  • FIG. 6 shows another preferred embodiment which entails even lower manufacturing expenses than the embodiments of FIGS. l5, but yet permits a continuous operation.
  • Two parallel-extending cooling rails 70 are provided which have longitudinal channels 72 for the refrigerant.
  • the rails 70 are arranged side-by-side at a small distance from each other, to form together a channel 74 conforming to the external contour of the foil molds 22.
  • the foils and not the rails function as the heat exchangers.
  • entrainment means 76 are provided which move along from left to right in the direction of the arrow in the interspace 78. These entrainment means are driven by devices such as chains, and are guided along guides on the underside of the rails 70.
  • the foil molds are conveyed underneath the processing stations. It is possible to arrange cool-' ing plates above the rails 70, so that the flanges 44 of the foil molds travel along underneath these cooling plates. Also, an insulating plate can be provided, corresponding to FIG. 4.
  • the foil molds can be employed as individual pieces; however, this is only recommended in case of very large foil molds.
  • cooling rails suffice, on the one hand, to produce a shell of mass very rapidly and, on the other hand, to impart to the shell a comparatively uniform average thickness.
  • FIGS. 7 and 8 it is shown how the present invention can be applied to the production of larger hollow chocolate bodies, in the present example-chocolate bunnies.
  • the foil mold in the embodiment shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 comprises two half shells, the edges of which are bent outwardly to form a flange 4.
  • a cooling device is provided having two containers which can be closed in symmetry upon each other.
  • the engaging surfaces 82 of the device are provided with depressions 3, which are intended for receiving the foil half shells 2.
  • the foil flanges 4 contact the surfaces 82 and the upper surfaces 84 of the containers.
  • the containers can be held in their closed position by means such as a clamping lock 86.
  • Each container individually is in communication with a cycle of a cooling medium, by way of conduits 88, which medium is moved through the containers in the direction of the arrows.
  • the containers which have refrigerant passing therethrough and are thereby deeply cooled are flipped open as shown in FIG. 7, the foil half shells are inserted and the containers are closed and locked with the clamping lock 86.
  • the warm chocolate mass is poured into the containers from above and, after a shell of mass has formed, the still liquid mass is removed by suction. Consequently, a closed hollow chocolate body has then been produced to which the two foil half shells adhere.
  • the body is taken out of the container, and the foil flanges 4 are folded over or flanged together, it being feasible to place a lid of cardboard or plastic over the bottom opening before the flange 4 is folded over.
  • the cooling device can be constructed in such a manner that the heat dissipation is lower at the slightly depressed places of surface 3 shown as representing the bunny ears than at the deeper places representing the belly. This can be accomplished by means such as controlling the feeding of refrigerating medium within each container, or inserting heatcurbing layers between the slightly depressed places of the surface 3 and the refrigerating medium cycle.
  • the foil lining within which the shell of the.product is formed may be selected from any thermally conductive packaging type material conventionally used by the trade, which meetsthe requirements of the health department as to its inertness, noncorrosiveness, chemical nonreactiv'e'ness with the product, nonpoisonous permanency and similar, such as aluminium foil, foil made of plastic, polyethylene, acrylates', polyesters, styrenes, gelatin, collagen and similar. Since these materials exhibit various resistances to thermal conductivity, the selected one must be correlated with the thermal conditions of the apparatus, for instance by its thickness and/or by corrective temperature changes.
  • the temperatures given in the specification are to be taken with chocolate wrapping materials having conventional heat conductivity and thickness usual to the trade, such as aluminium foil of a' minimum trade wrapping thickness.
  • thermoplastic melt as controlled by the melt heat control, is co-determined by its specific gravity, the speed of travel from station to station, the relative cooperating thermal conditions of the refrigerant, and primarily by the thickness of the shell wall required.
  • the shell wall thickness is regularly sampled by a sensor of thickness, such as caliper means, reciprocating vertically the moment the empty core of the shell passes underneath it, into it, to measure the diameter -of the hole, the balance between it, and the diameter of the lined mold to determine the shell-wall thickness.
  • a sensor of thickness such as caliper means
  • cooling means to cool at least a portion of said foil linings and the fill, maintaining a temperature below C. to solidify a shell from the fill adjacent the inner surface of said lining, leaving the core of said fill fluid;
  • At least one foil-mold being a plurality of foil-molds
  • said means to cool being a circular table with refrigerant conduit and circulating means;
  • said means to position and support said foil linings being a circular platform superimposed over said table for stepwise endless rotation;
  • suction means to evacuate the still fluid core from said means to position said foil-molds in sequence on the starting shells. end of said platform.
  • An apparatus for the production of hollow and convexly 9.
  • said means to position comprising a foil lining inserting station at the starting end of the moving track;
  • said means to heat-plasticize including heat control means
  • said means to fill including a melt dispensing station having a dispensing orifice superimposed above said platform with means to dispense said melt controllably into a successive lining at each step of the foil lining movements;
  • said means to removably position and support said foil linings comprising an endless track-means for moving along the upper and the lower surfaces of said table with means to convey said foil linings in succession over said table;
  • An apparatus for the production of hollow and convexly shaped products having shells made from thermoplastic materials as claimed in claim 9, said track being provided with a longitudinal channel 74 having a cross section conforming to that of said foil-molds 2, said means to move including means to move said foil-molds in said channel.
  • An apparatus for the production of hollow and convexly shaped products having shells made from thermoplastic materials as claimed in claim 10, the bottom of said channel provided with a longitudinal slot 78;.said means to move provided with conveying fingers 76 moved along the channel and said means to cool said foil linings comprising conduit means and means to circulate a refrigerant through said conduits; and
  • means comprising means superimposed above, said foil linings with means to evacuate said fluid core from said lining at each step of said track.
  • mold means one for eachproduct, saitl 'foil linings insertable one into each mold, one for each product; extending from below through the slot.
  • An apparatus for the production of hollow and convexly 14.
  • An apparatus for the production of hollow and convexly means to position the foil linings into the heat accumulators shaped products having shells made from thermoplastic 1 from below while changing from their path along the materials as claimed in claim 2, further comprising: lower surface of the cooling plate 33 to their path along a shell-wall thickness en or; and the upper surface of the cooling plate 33; and
  • An apparatus for the production of hollow and convexly shaped products having shells made from thermoplastic materials, as claimed in claim 14, said foil linings embossed one behind the other into a strip 34.
  • An apparatus for the production of hollow and convexly shaped products having shells made from thermoplastic materials as claimed in claim 14, further comprising a second cooled surface 45, 46 with means to cool below C.,-and means to cover the opening of the foil molds by said second cooled surface, after the excess mass has been removed by suction.
  • An apparatus for the production of hollow and convexly shaped products having shells made from thermoplastic materials, as claimed in claim 18, comprising means to flow a liquid refrigerating medium for cooling the first and second cooled surfaces through conduits ll, 72, 88, the latter being positioned in a thermally conductive connection with the cooled surfaces.
  • I 22 An apparatus for the production of hollow and convexly shaped products having shells made from thermoplastic materials, as claimed in claim 21, and additional means to fill partly prefilled shells with a second mass at 41.

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