The invention relates to a method for applying a wash coat suspension to a carrier structure. To provide a method by means of which coatings of a predominantly uniform thickness starting from wash coat suspensions can be applied to a carrier structure, the invention discloses a device (10) designed to create a fluidised bed of carrier structures, in which the carrier structures have an elliptical or toroidal flow, preferably toroidal, by means of a process gas (40). The method comprises the steps: a) the device (10) is charged with carrier structures and a carrier structure fluidised bed is created by means of a process gas (40), the carrier structures in the fluidised bed having an elliptical or toroidal flow, preferably toroidal; b) the carrier structures are impregnated with a wash coat suspension by spraying the carrier structures with an elliptical or toroidal flow with said suspension; c) drying of the carrier structures that have been sprayed with the wash coat suspension; d) optional calcining of the carrier structures charged with the solid fractions of the wash coat suspension.