US 12,458,041 B2
Dosing and mixing interim plate
Marco Schlüter, Quakenbrück (DE); and Achim Knoch, Minden (DE)
Assigned to The Livekindly Company Switzerland GmbH, Pfäffikon SZ (CH)
Filed by The Livekindly Company Switzerland GmbH, Pfäffikon (CH)
Filed on Sep. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/957,319.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/277,498, filed on Nov. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0034165 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. A23J 3/26 (2006.01); A23J 3/22 (2006.01); A23P 30/20 (2016.01); A23J 3/14 (2006.01)
CPC A23J 3/26 (2013.01) [A23J 3/227 (2013.01); A23P 30/20 (2016.08); A23J 3/14 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for dosing and mixing ingredients in a High Moisture Extrusion process, the system comprising:
an extruder to mix ingredients to turn them into a protein extrudate;
a cooling die to cool the protein extrudate and to cool an enhanced extrudate with ingredients added after the extruder; and
an interim plate connecting the extruder and the cooling die, to add and mix further ingredients, and facilitate movement of the protein extrudate and the enhanced extrudate into the cooling die, the interim plate further comprising:
one or more interim plate inlets to allow the entry of the protein extrudate from the extruder into the interim plate;
a plurality of dosing inlets for adding new ingredients to the protein extrudate that exits the extruder and enters the interim plate, the plurality of dosing inlets being placed on any location on the interim plate;
an at least one static mixer, which mixes the new ingredients with the protein extrudate to form the enhanced extrudate;
a dosing inlet of the plurality of dosing inlets being placed to dose the protein extrudate further along the interim plate than the at least one static mixer;
one or more flow channels to facilitate the movement of the protein extrudate and the enhanced extrudate through the interim plate and into one or more channels of the cooling die; and
one or more interim plate outlets to allow the flow of the protein extrudate and the enhanced extrudate into the cooling die.