| 摘要 |
<p>An apparatus and method is provided for forming shaped food products from an emulsion or batter. A stuffing tube (2) includes a wall defining a central passage (13) for emulsion, and a treating fluid passage (14) positioned within the wall and radially outside of the central passage. The stuffing tube is slideably mounted coaxially within a mold tube (1). Emulsion and treating fluid are deposited into the mold tube during retraction of the stuffing tube from the mold tube, where the depositions occur substantially without relative motion between the emulsion and the treating fluid, or between the emulsion/treating fluid and the inside of the mold tube. A production machine incorporating an array of stuffing tubes can be indexed with a plurality of arrays of mold tubes.</p> |
