AUTOMATIC BREADING MACHINE

A machine for breading or coating food articles with comminuted material prior to baking or frying, which comprises a transparent, substantially rounded housing divided into a main chamber and blower chamber. The main chamber has a plurality of pairs of spaced opposing spits, rotatably attached medially to the chamber walls, on which the articles are affixed, and a hopper for the breading material disposed above the chamber to discharge the material into the chamber in several directions. A fan blower is disposed at one end of the chamber to creat air currents therethrough at one level and a connecting duct opening into the other end of the chamber at a different level to create air currents in the chamber from the opposite direction, causing the discharging breading material to impinge against and adhere to the surfaces of the food articles as they are caused to rotate. A crumb tray at the bottom of the chamber receives the excess breading material. As a modification fan blowers are provided at each end of the chamber.