PATENTS

摘要

Noncontact printed comestible products and apparatus and method for producing same. The present disclosure provides systems, apparatuses, methods and products directed to noncontact printing of confectionery products. The confectionery products may include an edible substrate having a surface and an edible ink printed on the edible surface. The edible ink may cover at least about 5 percent of the surface. An apparatus of the present disclosure may include a removal device for removing at least a portion of a rolling compound from a confectionery material and a printing device for noncontact printing an edible-ink indicia on the confectionery material. An apparatus of the present disclosure may also include a detection device detecting the presence of confectionery material at a predetermined position. The Granted U.S. Patent 9226513 was published January 5, 2016, and assigned to Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.