Abstract: A continuous stream of chocolate mass is dosed with lecithin or similar emulsifiers by means of an electronically controlled dosing pump. The throughput or the weight rate of the flow of the chocolate mass is detected by a weighing device and the amount of the emulsifier to be added is adjusted to the changes of the throughput. The percentage of the emulsifier is preselected. The dosing time of each charge of the chocolate mass is determined as a first time interval from the detected weight rate of flow. During the dosing of a charge, a second time interval which is a predetermined fraction of the first time interval, is determined for the next charge during the dosing of a preceding charge. A control unit actuates a time counter for determining the first time interval whose value is stored in an intermediate storage. An operation counter determines the second time intervals and activates a control unit for the emulsifier dosing pump.

Abstract: In a conveyor for feeding non-slidable goods into a continuously operating packing machine, and wherein spacing between the goods being conveyed is provided by elongated engaging bars spaced from each other, a storage device is provided at the inlet portion of the conveyor. The engaging bars are discharged from the storage device onto the conveyor band of the conveyor at predetermined intervals controlled by a programming shaft of the packing machine. The engaging bars have flexible, deformable elements which are clamped between the conveyor band and clamping driven endless belts so that the engaging bars are retained on the conveyor band at predetermined intervals from each other.

Abstract: A continuous stream of chocolate mass is dosed with lecithin or similar emulsifiers by means of an electronically controlled dosing pump. The throughput or the weight rate of the flow of the chocolate mass is detected by a weighing device and the amount of the emulsifier to be added is adjusted to the changes of the throughput. The percentage of the emulsifier is preselected. The dosing time of each charge of the chocolate mass is determined as a first time interval from the detected weight rate of flow. During the dosing of a charge, a second time interval which is a predetermined fraction of the first time interval, is determined for the next charge during the dosing of a preceding charge. A control unit actuates a time counter for determining the first time interval whose value is stored in an intermediate storage. An operation counter determines the second time intervals and activates a control unit for the emulsifier dosing pump.

Abstract: A method of continuous production of refined chocolate mass from a non-refined cocoa mass composed of a mixture of components reduced in size to a fineness required for the final mass but still containing undesired aromatic substances and moisture and being processed into a low fat, friable or pulverized chocolate mass, is mixed in a plasticator with a preheated air stream which is admitted in the same feeding direction, simultaneously externally heated for a time interval between 5 and 8 minutes while being intensively mixed by shearing stresses until the mass becomes plasticized; thereupon the fluidity of the mass is increased by an emulsifier, then the entrained gas is separated from the mass, the latter is weighed and supplemented according to a final recipe by additional fat content, and the final mass is collected in a container and subjected to an additional homogenizing treatment and in a cooled condition is forwarded for the final processing.