Patent ID: 7418920
Filing Date: 2008-09-02
Classification: A21C,A23P

Abstract:
1. A device for coating a food product with a particulate coating material comprising: a) at least one essentially horizontal, rotary drum; b) at least one feed line for feeding food products to be coated to a feeding end of the drum; c) a movable distributor member at a removal end of the drum for spreading out the food products transversely; d) at least one removal line for removing coated food products at said removal end of the drum; and e) feed means for feeding the coating material to the food products, wherein, when the drum rotates the food products, the food products are tumbled and moved from the feeding end of the drum that is oriented towards the feed line to the removal end, wherein at least one further rotary drum is provided, and wherein a width of the feed line and the removal line is greater than a diameter of at least one of said rotary drums and wherein said feed and removal lines extend over at least two drums in a transverse direction.