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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7296511 | Rice hulling roll driving apparatus in rice huller In a rice huller, a first small-diameter pulley and a second large-diameter pulley are attached to a first roll shaft. A first large-diameter pulley and a second small-diameter pulley are attached to a second roll shaft. This configuration makes it possible to switc... | 11/20/2007 |
| 6941859 | Nut hulling tub agitating fingers An agitating device is provided that may be mounted inside a rotating nut hulling tub for increasing the agitation of the nuts, thereby increasing the hulling speed, especially important for pistachio nuts. The device comprises a bracket capable of being attached to... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6347579 | Husking apparatus A husking apparatus supplies cereal grains between a pair of rotating rubber rolls through a guiding chute, rubs and husks them. A roll diameter marker for indicating an abrasion degree of the diameter of one of the rubber rolls is provided near the minim... | 02/19/2002 |
| 5873301 | Roll type husking apparatus with inclined guide chute A husking apparatus for cereals comprises a pair of rolls provided parallel to each other with a clearance therebetween, and an inclined guide chute situated above the rolls. The guide chute slides down cereal grains between the rolls, and the rolls rotat... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5511469 | Abrasive type vertical grain milling machine There is disclosed an abrasive type vertical grain milling machine in which a space formed between any two adjacent ones of abrasive rolls serves as a jet air groove. The space serving as the jet air groove is of such an axial size that grain to be milled... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5435239 | Conditioning roller assembly A chain drive system is provided for communicating rotation from the bottom roller of a hay conditioner to the top roller of the hay conditioner. The top and bottom rollers include longitudinally extending flutes which intermesh as the rollers rotate. The... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5413034 | Resistance member adjusting mechanism of abrasive type grain milling machine An abrasive type vertical grain milling machine comprises a perforated cylindrical body which serves to define an outer periphery of a grain milling chamber and which has a plurality of vertically arranged resistance members projected radially into the gr... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5394792 | Bran-removing perforated cylindrical body of abrasive type grain milling machine An abrasive type vertical grain milling machine comprises a perforated cylindrical body having at least one perforated arcuate plate member which is formed therein with both a first group of elongated bran-removing holes serving to lead grain to be milled... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5361689 | Method and apparatus for blanching nuts Two counter rotating rollers are provided having elastomeric exterior coatings into which ribs and grooves are formed for intermeshing to blanch nuts at a pinch point therebetween. Grooves in the lower roller hold nuts as ribs on the upper roller pass acr... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5048407 | Grain husking and polishing machine The versatility of a grain husking and polishing machine to treat grains of different types is improved by providing a grain treatment chamber constituted by an abrasive rotor mounted on a fixed axis and a screen assembly surrounding said rotor and mounte... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5036757 | Apparatus for shelling and de-germinating corn The apparatus comprises a stator (1) and a rotor (3) rotatably supported in a stator housing (2) with a processing space (9) therebetween. The stator housing (2) and rotor (3) are fitted with knobs on their mutually facing sides in the region of the proce... | 08/06/1991 |
| 4583455 | Screen and rotor assembly for grain husking, decorticating, polishing and whitening machines A screen and rotor assembly for a grain husking, decorticating, polishing and whitening machine, and including an abrading screen supported by a screen holder, and an abrading rotor concentrically arranged within the abrading screen. The spacing between w... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4539904 | Husking machine for cereals A husking machine for cereals, with a husking roller mounted in fixed bearings and with a husking roller which is adjustable along an approximately horizontal path and the bearings of which are arranged on a support displaceable on guide members. The supp... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4454806 | Abrading machine The present invention is a seed dehulling device including mechanism for adjusting the aggressiveness of the device. The adjusting mechanism provides for changing the spacing between an abrading disc and an adjacent plate.... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4441409 | Apparatus for blanching peanuts Apparatus for use in blanching edible nuts, particularly peanuts. Two generally vertical plates are disposed in spaced parallel relation to one another and connected to a drive mechanism for producing lengthwise oscillations of the two plates, both of whi... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4441412 | Driving device of sorting cylinder for use in a rotary type rice hulling and sorting device A driving device of sorting cylinders for use in a rotary type rice hulling and sorting device, characterized by comprising a hulling part, a pneumatical sorting part and a rotary type sorting part provided with sorting cylinders rotatably installed there... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4377110 | Auto-control equipment of hull-removing roll in rice-hulling machines An apparatus for separating hulls from unhulled rice having a fixed rotating roll and a movable rotatable roll located in pressure contact with the fixed roll. A control rod connected to a biasing spring holds the movable roll in pressure contact with the... | 03/22/1983 |
| 4295420 | Automatic control system for hulling machine An automatic control system for a hulling machine including a fixed rotary hulling roll, a movable rotary hulling roll, means for moving the movable rotary hulling roll toward and away from the fixed rotary hulling roll to adjust the gap between the two h... | 10/20/1981 |
| 4194445 | Self-adjusting husker A grain husker has two decorticating rollers which are accommodated in a housing, one of the rollers being rotatable about a stationary axis, while the other roller is mounted on a carrier which, in turn, is mounted on the housing for pivoting relative th... | 03/25/1980 |
