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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7954446 | Hopper for cleaning coating machine A hopper for cleaning a coating machine in which a rotary atomizing head extends through an opening in the upper surface of a hopper housing, a thinner for cleaning the rotary atomizing coating machine and a residual coating material are sprayed on the inside, an ai... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7083683 | Apparatus for the formation of coverings on surfaces of solid bodies in a coating chamber An apparatus for the forming a covering on surfaces of solid bodies in a coating chamber. The covering is homogeneous and has a constant layer thickness on the surface of the solid bodies while being flexible for use of different liquids including solid materials. A... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7077738 | Apparatus for and method of processing meat An apparatus for and method of cleaning cutting residue from one or both sides of cut meat. Meat, after being cut, for example with a band saw or the like, is passed through a curtain of fluid to impinge fluid on to at least one side of the meat for removing a subst... | 07/18/2006 |
| 6903841 | Decorating system for edible items A system for creating a decorative edible item from a selected image. The system includes at least one image source, such as a scanner and/or a library of stored images, a controller unit and a printer. An edible media is inserted into the printer. The user then sel... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6672246 | Pizza-topping apparatus A pizza-topping apparatus for dispensing automatically various toppings for pizzas at a pizzeria. The pizza-topping apparatus includes a conveyor assembly. including a housing having side, back, and bottom walls and also having an open top, and also inclu... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6520110 | Installation for the sugarcoating or encasing of products with a device for cleaning the distribution or proportioning manifold The installation for sugarcoating or encasing of products by rotation of a cylindrical rotor includes a distribution and proportioning manifold mounted on support and guide rails external to the rotor permitting its total withdrawal from the rotor for the... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6340394 | Silo granular feed distribution and ladder chute apparatus A granular feed distribution and ladder chute apparatus for use within a silo comprising a ladder chute portion with internal alternating and staggered flights. One or more nozzles are located near the upper end of the ladder chute portion. Each nozzle is... | 01/22/2002 |
| 5597414 | Sprayer for coating articles A coating sprayer includes several sprayguns. The sprayguns are accommodated in an essentially solid-walled spraybooth. A conveyor with a motor-revolved belt conveys the articles through the spraybooth. A belt-wiping assembly extends across the belt and w... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5589225 | Granulating-coating apparatus and granulating and coating method using the same This is a granulating-coating apparatus comprising: a spraying means for spraying a binder liquid or a coating liquid onto articles to be processed, which are received in a rotary drum; a brush provided in a manner to be movable relatively to the spraying... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5538747 | Method and apparatus for the continuous damping of grain The invention proposes the damping of grain, for example, by creating a rotating layer (20) in a damping chamber (2) with the help of acceleration rotors (3). For this, the cross-section of the rotation chamber is designed to form an outer boundary around... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5447565 | Apparatus and method for coating particles Methods and apparatus for coating materials are provided. The apparatus includes a first member located above a rotating member and including a top opening and a bottom opening. A second member is located at least partly within the first member including ... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5437723 | Coating machine for the processing of chocolate and similar masses A coating machine for the processing of chocolate and similar masses having a frame and a circularly driven grating belt supported thereon for the reception of the articles to be coated. The grating belt is guided by deflectors and has a tensioning device... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5195454 | Apparatus for distributing particulate material Particulate material for coating foodstuffs falling from a belt of a conveyor within a rotatable drum is distributed substantially evenly over the interior wall of the drum by a guiding device which includes at least one movable plate which is positioned ... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5056455 | Breading machine A breading machine is provided in which the breading recirculation system enables effective circulation of excess breading through the machine to be reused for dispending the breading material onto the surfaces of a food product. The circulation system di... | 10/15/1991 |
| 4844001 | Removable and rotatable coating pan spray arm assembly An improved coating pan apparatus and spray arm assembly are disclosed for providing facilitated maintenance and cleaning of sensitive spray nozzles. The spray arm assembly includes means for varying the spray length and spray angle from a position extern... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4596205 | Coating device with an allocated cleansing device In a pivoted drum, e.g., a dragee coating drum for coating granular surfaces, a pivoted nozzle carrier (26b) projects along the drum axis, while forming an annular chamber (57), from which extends a multitude of similarly arranged elbows (64) with spray n... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4543906 | Device for coating particles, particularly drugs in the form of particles, such as tablets A particle coating apparatus is provided with a housing containing a drum open at both its ends and comprising a perforated cylindrical mantel. The drum is allowed to rotate and pivots at one of its ends with a bearing. An air transmission shoe having an ... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4496084 | Breading machine A breading machine for selectively dispensing flour breading or free flowing breading and wherein the machine has a frame and conveyor means supported in the frame defining a conveyance path having a product inlet end and a product outlet end, and a hoppe... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4454834 | Installation for the coating of individual wafer sheets or the like with a spreading mass An installation for coating baked products, such as wafer sheets, with a viscous, edible spreading mass, such as caramel, includes a transport installation for moving the wafers and a revolvable, generally cylindrical coating roll above the transport inst... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4283012 | Self-cleaning nozzle construction for product enrobing apparatus A nozzle for spraying food ingredients including an inner orifice for the ingredients and an outer orifice for spray air. A piston is reciprocable in a cylinder within a housing above the orifices. Attached to the piston is a clean-out plunger that extend... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4230065 | Apparatus for printing and protecting ink indicia on fruits Apparatus for printing an indicium on objects, fruits and the like with an ink which may or may not be water soluble, but which is preferably of a type which may be readily consumed by humans without damaging effect, the fruit being successively pre-orien... | 10/28/1980 |
| 4193373 | Spray apparatus for applying ingredient coatings to food products A readily sanitizable spraying apparatus particularly suited for applying an ingredient coating to food products in which the products to be sprayed are carried past spray heads by a conveyor. The heads are formed by interlocking members that are freely s... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4177753 | Wetting station, rotating conveyor station, self cleaning conveyor unit, and conveyor system using same A conveyor system including a wetting station having a container adapted for holding a wetting agent; a slack conveyor belt having at least its transfer path portion extending through the container and at least a part of that portion dipping below the lev... | 12/11/1979 |
