Film-coating apparatus
AssigneeLothar A. Wolf Spezialmaschinen GmbH
InventorsMichael Lothar Wolf, Jorg Kutschke
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Abstract
The invention relates to a film-coating apparatus (1) for coating foods with a coating material, more particularly with sugar solution or with a solution based on sugar substitute, having a housing (2), a coating chamber (9) within the housing (2), in which a delivery means (6) for delivering the coating material can be placed, and having a circulating belt (3) which in sections forms part of the walls of the coating chamber (9) and is provided as a bearing surface for the foods. The invention relates more particularly to a film-coating apparatus in which the belt (3) has a multiplicity of gas ports (30) which are designed for the accelerated solidification of the coating material.
Claims23
A film-coating apparatus for coating a food with a coating material, comprising:
- a housing;
- a coating chamber within the housing, the coating chamber configured to receive the coating material;
- and
- a circulating belt including a plurality of sections with a plurality of cross struts extending from a first side of the circulating belt to a second side of the circulating belt and a plurality of gas ports configured to accelerate solidification of the coating material, the sections partially forming walls of the coating chamber and providing a bearing surface for the food,
- wherein each gas port extends continuously between two adjacent cross struts over an entire width of the coating chamber from the first side of the circulating belt to the second side of the circulating belt.
A film-coating apparatus for coating a food with a coating material, comprising:
- a housing;
- a coating chamber within the housing, the coating chamber configured to receive the coating material;
- and
- a circulating belt including a plurality of sections and a plurality of gas ports configured to accelerate solidification of the coating material, the sections partially forming walls of the coating chamber and providing a bearing surface for the food, wherein each gas port extends over an entire width of the coating chamber;
- a delivery device including a delivery nozzle installation configured to deliver the coating material onto the food;
- and
- a protective tube configured to enclose the delivery nozzle installation, the protective tube including one or more outlets aligned with the delivery nozzle installation for delivering the coating material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.