(under subclass 400) Coating apparatus having means to agitate a mass of discrete particles of work in intimate contact with a batch of coating material.
(1) Note. In this and the indented subclass may be found, for example, devices for coating seeds in which a plurality of seeds are placed in a container along with the coating material and the seed and the coating material are agitated together to distribute the material over the seeds and thereafter the excess material being separated from the coated seeds.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
19, for similar devices for coating edible materials.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
366, Agitating, especially 219+, for devices which merely agitate the base to be coated in contact with a coating material supply, and see section IX of the class definition of this class (118) for the line between Class 118 and Class 366.
