Patent ID: 6510810
Filing Date: 2003-01-28
Classification: A23P

Abstract:
A combination batter-mixer and -applicator machine for continuous food process lines, comprising:a main batter pool for containing batter to a given fill level and having a bottom wall between spaced sidewalls and spaced end walls of which one is an intake end and the other a discharge end; a mixing tank disposed under the intake end of the main batter pool such that an opening in the main batter pool's bottom wall at the intake end empties into the mixing tank; a conveyor belt being disposed in the main batter pool at least partly sunk below the given fill level and having an upper food-carrying run providing transit of food product between said intake and discharge ends and a lower batter-motivating run traversing the main batter pool's bottom wall for motivating batter in direction of the bottom wall's opening at the intake end; and a circulating pump that outputs batter drawn out the mixing tank into the main batter pool to form re-circulation of batter such that the conveyor belt's lower batter-motivating run motivates the return of batter to the mixing tank by emptying through the opening in the main batter pool's bottom wall at the intake end.