Food process-line coating apparatus with exchangeable substitution or elimination of accessories of the tumbling and/or flipping nature

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9687018
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14625999

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A drum-type coating apparatus for applying breading material to food product is configured to eliminate, in most circumstances, a hard cylindrical drum, to be replaced by a U-hanging belt, the belly of which provides all the operative utility of a cylindrical hard drum, but better than that, provides more clearance for cleaning operations, since the upper hemi-cylinder of a hard cylindrical drum provides no utility for tumbling purposes and only, to make matters worse, obstructs cleaning operations. Also, the overall coating apparatus for supporting the U-hanging belt, flexible drum is provided with provisions for the exchangeable substitution or elimination of accessories of the tumbling and/or flipping nature, including the U-hanging belt, flexible drum itself. In the elimination configuration, food product is not routed through any tumbling and/or flipping accessory but is instead run through a flat bed configuration. That way, delicate food product is protected from disintegration.

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NOTHUM MANUFACTURING COMPANY631 S KANSAS AVE SPRINGFIELD MO 65802

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Nothum, Robert M Springfield, US 3 4
Nothum,, Jr Robert G Willard, US 30 35

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