Patent ID: 9545123
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: A21C,A23P,B05C

Claim:
1. A food topping dispenser for distributing a food topping on a food product comprising: a hopper including a pair of sidewalls, a back wall and a front wall defining an open unobstructed interior sized to receive a supply of food topping, lower ends of the back wall and the front wall defining a discharge opening; an application roller positioned in the discharge opening and rotatably mounted in and between the sidewalls, the application roller having a closed peripheral surface configured exteriorly thereon to receive and retain the food topping from the discharge opening; a wiper element mounted on the lower end of the back wall outside the open unobstructed interior and the discharge opening, and continuously positioned above the application roller for engagement with the food topping received from the discharge opening upon the application roller, the wiper element being configured to control a thickness of the food topping received and retained on the closed peripheral surface outside the discharge opening; and a stripping brush element adjustably mounted below the wiper element on the lower end of the front wall outside the open unobstructed interior and the discharge opening and configured for continuous engagement with the closed peripheral surface of the application roller for removing food topping retained therein, wherein the closed peripheral surface of the application roller is configured to retain the food topping thereon between the wiper element and the stripping brush element upon rotation of the application roller and wherein the stripping brush element removes the food topping from the application roller along an entire length thereof to dispense the food topping onto the food product.