Abstract: An apparatus (1) for coating edible products with a fat-containing coating mass includes a frame (3) including a plurality of spaced apart columns (4). The columns (4) are located in an outer portion of the apparatus (1), and they are approximately vertical. A grating belt (15) serves to transport the products placed thereon though the apparatus (1) in a working direction (2). A coating unit (10) directs the coating mass onto the products as they are transported on the grating belt (15) though the apparatus (1). A tub unit (6) includes a tub (7). The length (34) of the tub (7) in the working direction (2) is chosen such that essentially all surplus coating mass dripping down from the grating belt (15) is collected in the tub (7). The height (29) of the tub (7) is chosen such that the tub (7) fits below the grating belt (15).

Abstract: A method of cleaning a coating apparatus for coating articles with chocolate masses and the like with hot water includes the steps of: filling water into a tub of the coating apparatus, wherein the coating apparatus includes a driven grating conveyer belt for receiving the articles to be coated including an upper portion and a lower portion, and wherein the coating apparatus includes at least one aggregate being arranged in the upper region of the tub; pumping water out of the tub with at least one pump; and directing the substantially unpressurized water onto the grating conveyer belt and onto the at least one aggregate to be cleaned, the water having a temperature being higher than the melting temperature of the mass, the water flowing over the grating conveyer belt and the at least one aggregate and back into the tub in a substantially unpressurized manner.

Abstract: Described is a process for producing oximosilanes having the general formula (I)R.sup.1 a Si(O--N.dbd.Cr.sup.2 R.sup.3).sub.4-a (I)wherein R.sub.1 represents a straight-chain or branched alkyl residue having between 1 and 18 carbon atomns, a straight-chain or branched alkenyl residue having between 2 and 18 carbon atoms, an aryl or aralkyl residue optionally substituted by halogens, nitro groups, amino groups and/or alkyl residues having between 1 and 4 carbon atoms, or a straight-chain or branched alkoxy-residue having between 1 and 8 carbon atoms, a is an integer of 0 to 3, and R.sup.2 and R.sup.3, independently of each other, represent straight-chain or branched alkyl residues having between 1 and 18 atoms, optionally substituted by halogens, nitro groups, amino groups and/or alkyl residues having between 1 and 4 carbon atoms, by reacting an acyloxisilane with an oxime in molar excess, characterized in that an acyloxy-silane of general formula (II)R.sup.1 a Si(OCOR.sup.4).sub.4-a (II)wherein R.sup.