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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 |
| 7234393 | Industrial nutcracker An improved nutcracker and shelling process use centrifugal force to accelerate nuts so that their shells shatter upon impacting a target surface. The nutcracker includes an impeller having an intake for receiving nuts and an outlet for discharging the nuts. During ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 6457404 | Polished cereal processing apparatus An apparatus for processing polished cereal to obtain no-bran cereal having a reduced size. The apparatus comprises a polished cereal processing section for removing bran remaining on surfaces of polished cereal by mixing granular material with the polish... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6431061 | Peeling apparatus having feeder control based upon load and associated methods A peeling apparatus includes a set of abrasive rollers, at least one roller drive motor, a feeder for controllably feeding fruit or vegetables adjacent the abrasive rollers, at least one sensor associated with at least one roller drive motor for sensing a... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6422137 | Pistachio huller An apparatus for separating hulled and unhulled pistachios includes a rotating roller and a conveyor for depositing pistachios onto the roller. Rotation of the drum frictionally separates hulled and unhulled pistachios.... | 07/23/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6277424 | Pepper seed polishing machine A pepper seed polishing machine consists of a frame made from welded angle iron bars, a polishing mechanism which is a concave made from iron sieve having holes with diameter of 1.5-2 millimeters, and an agitator set. The agitator set consists of three ba... | 08/21/2001 |
| 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 |
| 5699724 | Cleaning and sorting bulk material For cleaning foodstuffs in the form of a bulk material, such as cereal grains, rice grains, soybeans, sunflower seeds, coffee beans, and the like, there is provided an optical sorting device (24, 24a, 24a') subsequent to a precleaning system (6), which en... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5678477 | Husking apparatus In a husking apparatus comprising: a husking portion having a pair of husking rolls which are adjustable in clearance between them and rotated in opposite directions with different peripheral speeds to perform husking of paddy grain; and a supply portion ... | 10/21/1997 |
| 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 |
| 5476036 | Abrading or polishing machine A screen assembly for grain husking, decorticating, polishing and whitening machines, the assembly to be mounted on a frame part of the respective machine. The assembly comprises at least two screen sectors which form a substantially cylindrical shape aro... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5427018 | Centrifugal disk for impact mills, air classifiers or the like A rotor disc for accelerating and projecting particles radially outwards off the disc toward an encircling impact element includes a rotatable disc base having radial channels for guiding particles radially outwards. The channels are formed of side walls ... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5415085 | Apparatus for shelling and separating any type of nut or legume This invention provides for an apparatus that will shell and separate the shells from the meat of a cracked nut or legume. The apparatus of the present invention is also provided with an adjustable slide plate that will render the apparatus with the capac... | 05/16/1995 |
| 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 |
| 5335792 | Grain separator A grain separator is disclosed comprising a plurality of operatively connected grain separator units and a grain inlet for feeding grain into the separator, wherein the grain is separated . The grain separator also has an outlet for dispensing the grain a... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5259303 | Rice cleaning machine A rice-cleaning machine has a flowing-down friction type rice-cleaning chamber (18) formed around the lower portion of a main vertical rotary shaft (10) a grain sending chamber (79) formed around an upper portion of the main shaft (10) for forcibly sendin... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5218899 | High efficiency centrifugal decorticator of oil grains A grain decorticating machine is provided with a distributor rotor and an impact band. The impact band further includes impact surfaces shaped in the form of an annular succession of first plates oblique with respect to the radius of the rotor, and by an ... | 06/15/1993 |
| 5119721 | Apparatus for producing washed rice A washed rice producing apparatus includes a frame; a first tubular member, arranged within the frame, for defining a rice-washing chamber therein for washing polished rice introduced therein from one end thereof, the rice-washing chamber having a dischar... | 06/09/1992 |
| 4773323 | Device for shelling nuts A process for shelling nuts, particularly pistachio nuts, includes the step of slowly and continuously compressing the nuts in the longitudinal direction and not increasing the compression at the moment when the shells break. This compression can preferab... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4741913 | Wheat flouring process A pretreatment system for wheat to be floured comprises a plurality of friction type wheat polishing machines disposed in series relation to form a continuous wheat polishing process line. Each polishing machine includes a perforated tubular polishing mem... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4628807 | Device for the wet treating of seed material A device for the wet treating of seed material includes a rotation-symmetrical treating chamber assembled of a conically shaped, downwardly sloping upper wall and of a frustoconical downwardly sloping bottom wall defining a central discharge opening. A ci... | 12/16/1986 |
| 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 |
| 4528901 | Machine for peeling cereal grains by means of rubber rolls Machine for peeling cereal grains, especially rice, by means of rubber rolls. Above the rolls (1,3) there is a bin (7) for the supply of material. An arrangement (13-18) is present, which cuts off the supply of material and/or separates the rubber peeling... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4483244 | Rice whitening apparatus Disclosed is a rice whitening apparatus which is capable of indicating a degree of milling. The rice whitening apparatus comprises a first sensor means (1), a second sensor means (1'), a calculating means (20a) and an indicating means (23). The first sens... | 11/20/1984 |
| 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 |
| 4432275 | Nut blanching apparatus A nut blanching arrangement in which nuts to be blanched are passed between first and second spaced, counter-rotating rollers. Each roller is provided with a plurality of hollow elastic tubular rings extending around its outer circumference. The tubular r... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4393762 | Sunflower seed dehulling machine A machine for dehulling flat disc-like seeds having a relatively heavy kernel inside the hull comprising a spinning rotor for throwing the seeds against an annular impact band to crack the hull. The rotor consists of a disc with radial blades on the surfa... | 07/19/1983 |
| 4357864 | Pneumatic grain conveyance rice mill A rice mill comprising grain feed means, grain husking means connected to said grain feed means, paddy removing means connected to said grain husking means, first grain elevating means connected to said paddy removing means, grain polishing and whitening ... | 11/09/1982 |
| 4341152 | Contrivance for shelling a granular product A contrivance for shelling a granular product, in particular soy beans, sunflower seeds and the like, is provided with a distribution head that is rotatable about its longitudinal axis. This latter displays in its wall axis-symmetrical arranged passthroug... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4196224 | Method and apparatus for husking and drying cereal and legume kernels The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for the husking and drying of cereal and legume kernels comprising separating the kernels from their husks by means of rotating plate bodies and discharging the husks from the kernels/husks mixture b... | 04/01/1980 |
| 4051773 | Milling roll A milling roll for use in a rice milling machine for removing the bran coating from the exterior surface of the rice kernels, in which the rice kernels are caused to rub or roll against each other rather than between relatively moving surfaces. The millin... | 10/04/1977 |
