Device, useful for coating food products with e.g. chocolate and sugar, comprises inlet end and outlet end, and driven grid-like endless conveyor belt on which products are arranged and conveyed from inlet end to outlet end

摘要

The device (10) comprises: an inlet end and an outlet end; a driven grid-like endless conveyor belt on which the products are arranged and conveyed from the inlet end to the outlet end in a conveying direction; a covering station for attaching the coating composition to the products; a blower station for blowing off excess coating material of the products below the conveyor be and a housing for collecting the products. The housing is made of stainless steel and is welded in the area where it receives coating composition. The device (10) comprises: an inlet end and an outlet end; a driven grid-like endless conveyor belt on which the products are arranged and conveyed from the inlet end to the outlet end in a conveying direction; a covering station for attaching the coating composition to the products; a blower station for blowing off excess coating material of the products below the conveyor be and a housing for collecting the products. The housing is made of stainless steel and is welded in the area where it receives coating composition. The conveyor belt is guided and driven over a set of guide and drive shafts, where each of the shafts is easily assembled and disassembled in the housing, so that the endless conveyor belt is removable as a whole. The shafts are pulled out partly transversely to the conveying direction of the conveyor belt from the housing. The device further comprises: a bottom-covering station for attaching the coating composition to the bottom of the products and/or a veil covering station for passing the products through a coating curtain of flowing coating mass; a heated mass trough with a mixing screw for collecting and recirculating the coating material, where the heated mass trough is associated with a ground trough and a mass pump via a line system for supplying the collected coating composition to the covering station. The veil covering station is provided with a sheet or curtain of fog roll or a curtain edge. The inlet end has a belt-feeding table (16) slidably mounted to the housing. A roof (20) is arranged above the conveyor belt. The conveyor belt is supported and cantilevered over a support structure. The housing is formed separately from the roof or is freely movable relative to the roof or under the roof. A heat source is provided above the conveyor belt for heating the product space. The heat source is arranged on the roof. The heat source comprises a warm air supply box, over which the hot air uniformly transverses into the product space along the conveying direction of the conveying belt. The device further comprises component cabinets (22, 24) in which components for production of hot air, energy supply, and hot water supply are arranged. Fastening bolts are arranged outside the housing.