IMPROVED BREADING MACHINE

摘要

A breading machine has first (12) and second (14) combination battering/breading units positioned in close proximity to each other. Certain features of the invention have utility with machines having only a single battering/breading unit. Each of the combination units has a battering unit (16) for applying a fluent batter to a food product. The battering unit includes a batter reservoir and a battering unit conveyor system (152) for delivering food products from said batter reservoir to a battering unit conveyor discharge section that propels the food product from the battering unit (16). The combination units also include a breading unit for receiving food product from an associated battering unit. The breading unit (18) includes a breading reservoir (200) and breading unit conveyor system (220 , 222) for applying particulate breading to the food product at a breading station (206) by moving breading material from the breading material reservoir (200) and food product coated with the batter to the breading station (18). A drive motor (20) is coupled through respective first and second transmissions to provide motive power to the conveyors systems of each of the first and second combination battering/breading units for moving food products simultaneously through the combination battering/breading units.