Patent ID: 7650836
Filing Date: 2010-01-26
Classification: A23P

Abstract:
1. A machine for coating food products with a particulate breading material comprising: a. a battering unit for applying a fluent batter to a food product comprising a batter reservoir and a battering unit conveyor system for delivering food products from said batter reservoir and including a discharge section that propels the food product from the battering unit in a first generally horizontal direction away from said battering unit reservoir; and b. a breading unit for applying particulate breading to the food product after the food product moves through the battering unit conveyor system comprising a breading material reservoir, a breading station at which breading is applied to the product and a breading unit conveyor system for delivering food products received from said battering unit and breading material from the breading material reservoir to said breading station; said breading unit including a food product receiving conveyor and side walls that bound the product receiving conveyor shaped to flare outwardly along a top portion of said side walls to guide food product from the discharge section of the battering unit onto the product receiving conveyor section and continue the food product as the product receiving conveyor moves the food product toward the breading station.