Foods and beverages: apparatus – Means to treat food – By stuffing or applying particulate material
Patent
1997-07-16
1999-01-05
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Means to treat food
By stuffing or applying particulate material
994501, 118 19, 118 23, 118312, 366233, 366234, A23L 122, A47J 4400, B05B 500, B05C 1900
Patent
active
058551654
ABSTRACT:
A food breading apparatus for breading food components with a breading mixture includes a breading drum rotatable about its longitudinal axis wherein the longitudinal axis is inclined from horizontal. The drum includes an inlet opening located in an upper end, an outlet opening located in a lower end, and a plurality of perforations located proximal to the lower end and through a sidewall of the drum. The perforations are sized to allow surplus breading mixture and lumps of breading mixture to pass therethrough but to retain the breaded food product in the rotating breading drum. An inlet conveyor provides food products to be breaded to the inlet opening of the breading drum. A recirculating breading mixture conveyor provides the breading mixture to the inlet opening. A takeout conveyor moves the breaded food products from the outlet opening of the breading drum. A lump removal conveyor is positioned below the plurality of perforations in the sidewall of the breading drum. The lump removal conveyor includes a plurality of openings sized to allow passage of surplus powdered breading mixture therethrough but to retain the lumps of breading mixture for transport to a catch pan. A shaker shoe mechanism raises a portion of the lump removal conveyor as it carries lumps and breading to facilitate moving powdered breading mixture through the openings of the lump removal conveyor and to facilitate recycling a maximum amount of the breading mixture. A surge hopper and conveyor positioned below the lump removal conveyor collects surplus breading mixture passing through the openings in the lump removal conveyor and transports surplus breading mixture to the recirculation conveyor wherein the cycle begins again.
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Exhibits A1-A7, inclusive, illustrate a food breading device sold by Stein, Inc., of Sandusky, Ohio, Model #DB4. This device is stipulated as prior art by applicant, undated.
Exhibit B is a seasoning tumbler used commercially by Frito Lay and stipulated as prior art by applicant, undated.
Dallas A.C. Horn & Co.
O'Neil Michael A.
Simone Timothy F.
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