ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,610, issued on Oct. 21.
"Internal washing provisions for food process line machines" was invented by Robert G. Nothum Jr. (Willard, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Food process-line coating apparatus for coating a stream of food product in a food process line are provided with the improvement of a permanently-installed internal cleaning-fluid circuit and a plurality cleaning-fluid distribution devices. The cleaning-fluid distribution devices are any of a rotary spray head, a spherical spray nozzle, a rotary frame or a tubular (cylindrical) rotary manifold. The rotary spray head optionally has a multitude of flat spray nozzles moun...