Charles Davis Aug 7, 2013:

@ Lisa OK, done :)

Lisa McCarthy (asker) Aug 6, 2013:

@ Charles No sign of Jo :) Do you want to enter your suggestion as an answer and I'll award points and close this question?

Lisa McCarthy (asker) Jun 28, 2013:

Ooops I've just seen that Jo confirmed it first! Sorry guys! So Jo, if you want some points, please post your answer :)

Lisa McCarthy (asker) Jun 28, 2013:

@ Charles Can you please post your answer as you were first to confirm 'battering machine belt' and provided useful refs, so the points should go to you. :)

Helena Chavarria Jun 22, 2013:

@Charles Thank you! I've learnt something new today. It's always a pleasure to read your posts.

Charles Davis Jun 22, 2013:

@ Helena I know what you mean, and I was initially doubtful about "batter"/"battering" for that reason. When you make a batter at home it contains egg by definition, as far as I'm concerned, but strictly speaking it doesn't have to - a batter is simply some sort of flour plus a liquid. In industrial production they virtually always use non-egg batters, for obvious reasons of avoiding infection.

In this book on poultry products, they use the word "battering". In this case, "encolado", it's a so-called "adhesion batter". It says that industrial batters normally contain "wheat flour, corn flour, proteins, gums and leavening agents" (foot of p. 295): no mention of egg.
http://books.google.es/books?id=cdAxBXPjymgC&pg=PA289&lpg=PA...

Helena Chavarria Jun 21, 2013:

@Charles You could well be right. It's just that batter contains egg and flour and I'm not sure what Lisa's encolado is made of! Anyway, I was about to go out but I wanted to give my tuppence ha'penny worth!

Charles Davis Jun 21, 2013:

@ Helena I considered "coating" too, but from my reading it's broader than this and applies to flouring/dusting and breading stages as well. I think "battering" is the word; it's applied to any liquid applied at that stage, with or without egg.

"Batter coating" should be fine, logically, but "coating" isn't really needed; "battering" alone would be enough. In fact your excellent reference says "Battering machine belt conveyors are available in three different widths."

Helena Chavarria Jun 21, 2013:

I often use 'coating'. http://www.marel.com/meat-processing/systems-and-equipment/f... Batter coating belt

Charles Davis Jun 21, 2013:

@ Lisa Either battering machine belt if they're using a separate battering machine, or battering belt/conveyor if they're using a combined battering/breading machine. The latter is quite possible.

Here's a useful doc. in Spanish all about it:
http://www.ruralcat.net/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=724...

And a video of a battering/breading machine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23-y8CR9hck

Jo Macdonald Jun 21, 2013:

Yep The alco-Battering-Machine, type APN, is designed to coat products with liquid batter before breading. The machine can also handle other liquid ... Belt width. 250 mm; 400 mm; 600 mm; 700 mm; 900 mm; 1000 mm other belt-widths on request.

Lisa McCarthy (asker) Jun 21, 2013:

Further context Actually 'cinta' can't refer to 'loin' as further on in the text I have in one column entitled 'Phase' - 'Incorporación a la cinta de encolado' and under another column entitled 'Cause of hazard' - Higiene deficiente de la cinta de encolado', so it looks like it's some piece of machinery/belt. Maybe 'battering machine belt'?