Hand breader

A breading apparatus comprising:

• a table structure;
• an open top breading pan supported on said table, the breading pan being open at the top and having a central closable opening in the bottom thereof, the breading pan being adaptable to receive flour or like material wherein pieces of food, such as pieces of chicken, may be placed in the flour and covered with the flour by manual manipulation of the process in the flour;
• a removable catch pan supported by the table below said breading pan;
• and a sifting apparatus supported by the said table structure between said breading pan and said catch pan comprising:
• an upright reciprocal basket holder supported by said table and rotatable about a vertical axis in substantial vertical alignment with said bottom opening in said breading pan;
• a motor supported by said table structure;
• a crank arm rotated by said motor;
• means connecting said crank arm to said reciprocal basket holder whereby when the motor is energized the basket holder is reciprocated about its vertical axis;
• an open top cylindrical sifter having foraminous vertical sidewalls substantially perpendicular to a removable flat foraminous bottom;
• said sidewalls formed of continuous foraminous material;
• the sidewalls having a reduced diameter interior flange therein, the flange receiving and supporting said foraminous bottom;
• the bottom being a circular flat plate of an exterior diameter substantially equal to the interior diameter of the cylindrical vessel and of diameter larger than the internal diameter of said interior flange;
• a molded elastomeric member encompassing the outer circumferential area of the bottom plate, the outside diameter of the elastomeric member being of a dimension to be slidably received in said vessel cylindrical sidewalls;
• said outside diameter having an outer circumferential contact portion to provide a snug fit between said sidewalls and said bottom;
• said sifter being removably supported on said basket holder and reciprocated about its cylindrical axis by said basket holder whereby flour or the like discharged from said breading pan falls into said sifter and the sifted flour falls from said sifter into said catch pan.