Patent ID: 7540256

Claim:
Device for coating at least a top of moving food products with at least one layer of a free-flowing particulate coating material, which device comprises: a conveyor with a conveying part for carrying food products in a conveying direction, a storage container comprising coating material, which container is arranged over the conveying part of the conveyor and has a discharge opening for discharging coating material onto the conveying part, and a pouring mound formed on the conveying part by the coating material discharged from the storage container onto the conveying part, wherein the pouring mound has, at an upstream side, a slope with respect to the conveying part of the conveyor, which slope extends over a length from the conveying part in the conveying direction towards the discharge opening whereby segregation of fine and coarse particles of the coating material takes place on the slope, and wherein the device is provided with a flow control device for adjusting the length of the slope on the upstream side of the pouring mound of coating material formed on the conveying part of the conveyor, wherein the flow control device comprises a discharge control device for adjusting the discharge of coating material from the storage container and a flow restriction device for adjusting the throughput of coating material on the conveying part of the conveyor, and wherein the flow restriction device comprises a scraper element having an underside at an adjustable distance from the conveying part of the conveyor.