Tumble breading system, and related method
AssigneeJohn Bean Technologies Corporation
InventorsDennis Dean Brady, Sr., Quentin Duane Pendergrass
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Abstract
A tumble breading system for applying a breading material to a food includes a housing designating an internal clean area, and an infeed belt for conveying the breading material and the food, arranged across the infeed belt in an infeed order, into the clean area. A rotary assembly with a plurality of vertically offset, rotating tumblers accepts and tumbles the food with the breading material as the tumblers rotate, to bread the food. An output belt accepts the breaded food from the tumblers and conveys the breaded foods from the clean area and the housing. The food arrives at the output belt in substantially the infeed order.
Claims22
A tumble breading system for applying a breading material to a food, comprising:
- an infeed belt for conveying the food and a quantity of breading material into a housing;
- a plurality of rotary tumblers within the housing, for accepting the food and the breading material and tumbling the food with the breading material, to bread the food, wherein the rotary tumblers are vertically offset and each rotary tumbler comprises a plurality of longitudinal channels for accepting the food and the breading material in a linear order approximating an order in which the food spans the infeed belt;
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- an output belt for accepting the coated food from the tumblers and conveying the breaded food from the housing, wherein the food and the breading material are transferred between the channels and to the output belt, as the tumblers rotate.
A tumble breading system for applying a breading material to a food, comprising:
- a housing designating an internal clean area;
- an infeed belt for conveying the breading material and the food, arranged across the infeed belt in an infeed order, into the clean area;
- a rotary assembly having a plurality of vertically offset rotating tumblers, for accepting and tumbling the food with the breading material as the tumblers rotate, to bread the food, wherein the rotary assembly is swappable with another rotary assembly differing in number or arrangement of tumblers;
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- an output belt for accepting the breaded food from the tumblers and for conveying the breaded foods from the clean area and the housing;
- wherein the food arrives at the output belt in substantially the infeed order.
A tumble breading system for applying a breading material to a food, comprising a rotary assembly for fitting with a breading machine, proximate an infeed to the machine, the rotary assembly having:
- a first tumbler with a plurality of first longitudinal channels, for consecutively accepting the food from the infeed as the tumbler rotates to expose subsequent first longitudinal channels, and for rotating the food with the breading material, within the first longitudinal channels;
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- at least a second tumbler offset beneath the first tumbler and having a plurality of second longitudinal channels for consecutively accepting the food and the breading material from the plurality of first channels, as the second tumbler rotates opposite the first tumbler;
- wherein rotation of the food with the breading material works the breading material into and onto the food.
A tumble breading system for applying a breading material to a food, comprising:
- a housing;
- means for distributing breading material from a breading material chamber within the housing to an infeed belt, across which the food is arranged;
- means for passing the food beneath the breading material;
- a flip belt for accepting the food and the breading material from the distribution means;
- a plurality of vertically offset, counter-rotational tumblers for accepting the food and the breading material from the flip belt and for tumbling the food with the breading material as the food and the breading material are passed between the tumblers;
- an output belt for accepting breaded food from the tumblers and for passing excess breading material therethrough;
- a reclamation assembly disposed beneath the tumblers and the output belt, for sifting the excess breading material to separate reusable breading material from clumped breading material;
- wherein reusable breading material passes through the reclamation assembly to the breading chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.