APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXTRUDING A PRODUCT

摘要

An apparatus and a method for producing a striped confectionery product is provided. The apparatus may co-extrude two different base products into a common flow path, including elongate openings extending laterally across the flow path generally parallel to one another through which the base products are introduced so as to form a combined co-extruded product. A die can receive the layered co-extruded product stream, the die having a generally helical blade statically mounted in the passage to divide the passage into two generally helical flow paths. The die can be configured so that the sub-streams can be subsequently recombined into a single recombined product stream having an increased number of generally parallel layers of the base products when compared with the initial co-extruded product stream.