Patent ID: 7739979
Filing Date: 2010-06-22
Classification: A23P

Abstract:
1. A tumble breading system for applying a breading material to a food, comprising: an infeed belt for conveying the food and a quantity of breading material into a housing; a plurality of rotary tumblers within the housing, for accepting the food and the breading material and tumbling the food with the breading material, to bread the food, wherein the rotary tumblers are vertically offset and each rotary tumbler comprises a plurality of longitudinal channels for accepting the food and the breading material in a linear order approximating an order in which the food spans the infeed belt; and an output belt for accepting the coated food from the tumblers and conveying the breaded food from the housing, wherein the food and the breading material are transferred between the channels and to the output belt, as the tumblers rotate.