Joseph Tyler Bell

US Patent:

20050191404, Sep 1, 2005

Filed:

Nov 19, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/716581

Inventors:

Sigismondo DeTora - Pearl River NY, US
Candice Emerick - Hamilton MI, US
Pankaj Patel - Brandchburg NJ, US
Andrew Metropole - North Brunswick NJ, US
John Henshaw - Mendham NJ, US
Cosjun Pabua - Staten Island NY, US
Wayne Ramnarine - Bethlehem PA, US
Joseph Bell - Bethlehem PA, US

International Classification:

A23G003/00

US Classification:

426658000

Abstract:

A method provides a dry granular sugar ingredient, which improves the production of compressed, tableted confection products by enabling them to be formed with a higher initial strength to permit improved handling and packaging with fewer broken and chipped tablets. In the first part of the process, sucrose is ground to a suitable size for processing in the screw-fed mixer. Simultaneously, a corn syrup solution is prepared for mixing with the sucrose in the mixer. Both the ground sucrose and the corn syrup solution are then fed to the screw-fed mixer. After achieving uniform blending of the ingredients, the moist mixture is dropped at to conveyor which brings it to a sieve, which breaks up lumps prior to feeding to a vibratory bed drier in the preferred form. From the drier, the material is passed to a screen separator where the particle size range for the product is finalized. Correctly sized product is recovered and mixed with flavor to be pressed into a candy.