Patent ID: 6348105
Filing Date: 2002-02-19
Classification: A23G

Abstract:
A method of cleaning a coating apparatus for coating articles with chocolate masses with hot water, said method comprising the steps of:filling water into a tub of the coating apparatus, wherein the coating apparatus includes a driven grating conveyer belt for receiving the articles to be coated including a upper belt portion and a lower belt portion, and wherein the coating apparatus includes at lest one aggregate being arranged in the upper region of the tub; pumping water out of the tub with at least one pump; and directing the substantially unpressurized water onto the grating conveyer belt and onto the at least one aggregate to be cleaned, the water having a temperature being higher than the melting temperature of the mass, the water flowing over the grating conveyer belt and the at least one aggregate and back into the tub in a substantially unpressurized manner.