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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6951169 | Horizontal grinding type rice milling machine In a horizontal grinding-type rice polishing machine which is so configured that a grinding roller (1) installed circularly and fixedly on a horizontal rotation axis (10) is covered with a concentric cylindrical bran removing screen (S) that can be spl... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6832545 | Apparatus for manufacturing no-bran cereal An apparatus for manufacturing no-bran cereal such as no-bran rice which require no washing before cooking. With the apparatus, bran stuck on a surface of a grain of the polished cereal is easily removed without imparting any damage on the surface, and further moist... | 12/21/2004 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5211343 | Cereal grain milling system with disc mill and improved bran removal machine A milling system for cereal grains such as wheat includes one or more bran removal machines which removes a substantial fraction of the bran of the incoming wheat to form a pearled wheat. The pearled wheat is then supplied as a feed stock to a disc mill i... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5209158 | Grain cleaning and polishing machine A machine for cleaning and polishing grains comprises at least one treatment chamber which includes an upper frusto conical baffle having a central opening to admit grains thereinto, an intermediate rotatory disc to impart movement to the grains falling t... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5076157 | Coffee bean polishing apparatus A green coffee bean polishing apparatus for removing silver skin from green coffee beans having the silver skins remaining after removal of parchment, comprises: a tubular member communicated at one end portion thereof with a supply port for green coffee ... | 12/31/1991 |
| 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 |
| 5033371 | Process of and system for flouring wheat A wheat flouring system comprises a polishing machine for polishing wheat grains, a humidifying machine for humidifying the grains, a conditioning machine for subjecting the grains to conditioning and a milling machine for milling the grains to produce a ... | 07/23/1991 |
| 4896592 | Grain polishing machine A grain polishing machine of a vertical shaft and friction type in which a vertical polishing rotor and a bran removing polishing cylinder surrounding the former have each different diameters so as to have step parts dividing a polishing chamber defined b... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4597977 | Method and apparatus for separating hulls and debris from plant products A machine frame has a foraminous, inclined screen drum mounted for rotation thereon with an opening in one end which receives the peas for engagement by flat paddles attached in spaced relation to a horizontal, internal paddle shaft supported for rotation... | 07/01/1986 |
| 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 |
| 4577552 | Rice-hulling apparatus The apparatus includes a hulling section, mounted above and in communication with an air-blow separating section which directs a blast of air onto the processed grain as it is discharged from the hulling section into a vibratory separating section which s... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4572063 | Vibratory grain separating apparatus A vertically disposed unhulled rice lifter is mounted adjacent a stationary frame with its upper end secured against movement relative to and in communication with a hulling section which is secured on the frame above and to one side of a vibratory separa... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4537122 | Skin removal apparatus for almonds The present invention relates to a fluid bed process for the removal of skins from edible nuts.... | 08/27/1985 |
| 4515075 | Rice polishing machine A rice polishing machine comprises a rotatable shaft, a polishing roll mounted on the shaft for rotation therewith, and a perforated cylindrical polishing assembly disposed in substantially concentric relation to the shaft. The cylindrical polishing assem... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4459903 | Vertical abrasive roll rice polishing machine An abrasive roll rice polishing machine which comprises a vertical framework assembly, a vertical rotary shaft extending in the vertical axis of the framework assembly and journalled therein, an abrasive roll mounted on the shaft for rotation therewith, a... | 07/17/1984 |
| 4426922 | Vertical frictionally abrasive roll rice polishing machine A vertical frictionally abrasive roll rice polishing machine in which a vertical rotary shaft extended in the vertically axial direction of a framework assembly, a vertical frictionally abrasive roll is mounted at the upper end of the shaft, a polishing c... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426921 | Apparatus for removal of bran from rice and like cereal grains A method and apparatus for removing bran from cereal grains, particularly rice, wherein dehusked cereal grains to be debranned are fed under controlled pressure through a chamber wherein they are laterally confined by an apertured screen while being worke... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4324175 | Apparatus for rice polishing Apparatus is disclosed for polishing rice grains for generating super luster on rice grain surfaces which comprises means for grind-polishing rice grains from unpolished rice grains into intermediately polished rice grains whereby the yield of said interm... | 04/13/1982 |
| 4323006 | Whitening apparatus for super-glossy white rice Disclosed is the improvements in whitening apparatus for producing strongly glossy white rice without using any gloss additive. The improved apparatus wherein: friction between half-finished white rice grains which have been moistened while being supplied... | 04/06/1982 |
| 4300447 | Nut blancher A device and a method for either the continuous or the batchwise removal (blanching) of skins from peanuts and other nut products are provided. The nut blanching device includes a rotatable cylinder containing a structure for introducing at least one jet ... | 11/17/1981 |