Abstract: In a typical breading machine for automatically coating the exterior surfaces of edible products such as for example seafoods, poultry, red meats and vegetables, a method and apparatus for distributing and sifting what is defined in the art as Japanese style bread crumbs which display a wide variation in crumb sizes. The typical breading machine provides for the conveyance of the product to be coated along a conveyance or coating path on a bed of breading placed on the conveyance means at a first location whereby the surfaces of said product which engage said bed are coated with breading. A separate quantity of breading is subsequently presented to the product being conveyed at a second location along the conveyance path whereby the remaining surfaces of the product are coated with breading.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a forklift truck including a wheel supported frame, a boom assembly including an elongated outer boom pivotally connected to the frame and being of rectangular box construction including a hollow interior, an elongated inner boom telescopically located in and movable relative to the outer boom and being of downwardly open channel construction defining a downwardly open cavity, a work element carried at one end of the inner boom, hydraulic means for tilting the outer boom relative to the frame, and hydraulic means for telescopically moving the inner boom relative to the outer boom.