Patent ID: 8852661

Claim:
A method for the continuous coating of cores of confectionery products, the method comprising: providing a coating machine comprising at least one hollow drum rotating about a hinge axis thereof and having a plurality of internal treatment chambers communicating one with the other and adapted to each house a respective mass of cores to be treated; feeding the mass of cores to be treated and at least one coating material in one of said chambers; coating said cores with said coating material by handling them within said treatment chamber, wherein the handling of said cores within said treatment chamber comprises a step of angularly and cyclically oscillating said drum in opposite directions about said hinge axis maintaining the mass to be treated in said treatment chamber, wherein said angular and cyclic oscillation in opposite directions is carried out so as to cyclically displace and arrange said mass to be treated in two different reciprocally facing angled positions; and conveying a coating product towards said mass of cores when the mass is arranged in one of said two angled positions and convey a drying air flow towards said mass of cores when the mass is arranged in the other one of said two positions.