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Abstract

An apparatus for separating dough balls from reusable breading having a container for holding breading containing dough balls, the container having an aperture in the bottom thereof for selectably discharging the breading having dough balls commingled therewith, a sifter having foraminous portions positioned below the container bottom aperture and having a bottom with a central opening through the foraminous portions, a plurality of concentric circular walls having openings therethrough arranged to cause dough balls to be separately discharged through the sifter central opening, a divider below the sifter central opening separating into divergent downwardly inclined paths the breading sifted from the sifter, the divider having an opening therethrough, a conduit received within the divider opening having an upper end in close communication with the sifter central opening, first and second paralleled and spaced apart breading collector pans below the sifter and divider to receive breading discharged from the sifter, and a dough ball collector pan below the conduit and between the breading collector pans for collecting dough balls discharged from the filter.

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