Apparatus for coating egg yolks and other articles
OwnerEustathios Vassiliouinventor
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Abstract
Apparatuses are disclosed and claimed for coating egg-yolks, natural or artificial, preferably in the form of disks. The apparatuses comprise a vessel for containing a first coating liquid, in which the egg yolk disks are dispensed. A preferably continuous belt is synchronized with the dispenser so that the back part of the belt is immersed in the liquid when the egg-yolk is being dispensed, while it rises during the period of time that the dispenser is getting ready to dispense a new egg-yolk, thus transferring the yolk out of the liquid. The belt has preferably perforations in its middle portion and it is pivoted in the vicinity of the front end of the vessel. The apparatuses of the present invention are useful for coating articles other than egg-yolk disks.
Claims20
An apparatus for coating an article, the apparatus comprising:
- an article dispenser;
- a first vessel having an inner space for containing a first coating liquid, the first vessel being in such spatial relation to the article dispenser so as to accept the article within the inner space after the article is dispensed from the article dispenser;
- a belt at least partially disposed over the first vessel;
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- a belt synchronizer for synchronizing the belt with the article dispenser in a manner that
- (a) when the article dispenser dispenses the article, the belt is at least partially immersed in the inner space,
- (b) after the dispenser has dispensed the article and said dispenser is being prepared to dispense a new article, the belt is lifted so as to transfer the article outside the inner space,
- (c) the belt is immersed again into the inner space before the dispenser dispenses the new article, and
- (d) the belt repeats (b), (c), and (d).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.