摘要 |
An apparatus for coating a foodstuff with a particulate material comprising an endless wire belt having a forward run and a return run trained about infeed and outfeed rollers, baffle means adapted to collect excess particulate material positioned beneath the return run and extending in an arc around the infeed roller to at least partially surround the return run, and a rotary device comprising a shaft fitted with one or more rows of radial wings positioned at the infeed end, whose axis of rotation is parallel to that of the infeed roller and positioned to enable the radial wings to protrude through the meshes of the wire belt in at least part of the region where the return run of the belt is trained about the infeed roller so as to contact and push excess particulate material towards the infeed end of the forward run. <IMAGE> |