Apparatus for attenuating coatings

Claim 1

AN APPARATUS FOR ATTENUATING WAX COATINGS ON RAISINS WHICH COMPRISES A VERTICAL SHAFT; MEANS FOR ROTATING SAID SHAFT; A BASKET SUPPORTED BY SAID SHAFT FOR RECEIVING AND TREATING WAX-DIPPED RAISINS, SAID BASKET INCLUDING A SERIES OF CONCENTRIC, UPWARDLY-FLARING, PERFORATED, TRUNCATED CONES OF STEPWISE INCREASING DIAMETER AND STEPWISE DECREASING ANGLE WITH THE SAID VERTICAL SHAFT, SERIALLY NESTED INTO ONE ANOTHER WITH THE LARGEST CONE ON TOP AND EACH SUCCEEDING CONE BEING POSITIONED WITH ITS TOP EDGE WITHIN THE PRECEDING CONE BUT INWARDLY SPACED THEREFROM, THE SAID SERIES OF CONES DEFINING THE AGGREGATE A GENERALLYCONICAL, UPWARDLY-FLARING, STEPPED BASKET WHEREBY WAXCOATED RAISINS THEREIN MOVING UPWARDLY AND OUTWARDLY UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF CENTRIFUGAL FORCE ARE SUBJECTED TO IMPACT FORCES IN PROGRESSING FROM ONE CONE TO THE NEXT AND THE WAX COATING ON THE RASINS IS PROGRESSIVELY ATTENUATED; AND UPWARDLY-FLARING CONICAL HROUD SURROUNDING SAID SERIES OF CONES FOR COLLECTING WAX REMOVED FROM SAID RAISINS; AND HEATING MEANS FOR MAINTAINING THE SERIES OF CONES AT A PREDETERMINED TEMPERATURE AT WHICH WAX WILL FLOW.