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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7275551 | Device for cleaning food with ozone water, and method of cleaning food using cleaning device A food washing apparatus of the invention includes an ozonized water generator (10), a cylindrical washing tank (1) in which the food materials are put and which can rotate to wash the food materials, a drainage part (4) formed at a part of the ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 6357456 | Process for cleaning and drying cherry pits A processing system for cleaning, washing, drying, and sorting cherry pits. Once the pits are removed from the cherries, they are washed, scrubbed, and cleaned. Any excess water is removed from them and the pits are then thoroughly dried. Any partial or b... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6289543 | Process and system for processing cherry pits A processing system for cleaning, washing, drying, and sorting cherry pits. Once the pits are removed from the cherries, they are washed, scrubbed, and cleaned. Any excess water is removed from them and the pits are then thoroughly dried. Any partial or b... | 09/18/2001 |
| 5824356 | Method and apparatus for cleaning roots, tubers, bulbs, and the like There is disclosed method and apparatus for cleaning roots, tubers, bulbs, and the like, for example, sugar beets, chicory, Jerusalem artichokes, dahlia, potato, and onions (hereinafter "articles"). In the apparatus, spaced horizontal rollers have helices... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5387155 | Beet harvester A towed type beet harvester includes a main frame having ground engaging wheels and having a lifter wheel assembly for excavating beets, potatoes, carrots and similar root crops. A front set of grab rollers are positioned rearwardly of the lifter wheel as... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5294001 | Apparatus for removing oil from oil covered parts Apparatus and method for cleaning the oil off of oil covered parts by the employment of oil absorbing particulate such as ground corncob. The oil covered parts and oil absorbing particulate are mixed together in a tumbler for a period sufficient to bring ... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5175906 | Bean cleaning apparatus The invention comprises a bean cleaning apparatus comprising a plurality of pairs of elongated inclined rotating parallel rods. One of the rods in each pair has a spiral groove along its length and the other rod has a smooth cylindrical outer surface. The... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5077854 | Apparatus for automatically cleaning and dispensing golf balls The invention provides an apparatus for automatically cleaning and dispensing golf balls. The apparatus has a supply chute which connects to a cleaning apparatus and to a gravity operated sorting apparatus which incorporates a dispensing apparatus which f... | 01/07/1992 |
| 4936362 | Firewood clean out apparatus A firewood cleaning apparatus for separating debris from firewood with the cleaning apparatus having a slatted bed for joltingly catching firewood to dislodge debris from the firewood and a conveyor chain for pushing the firewood along the slatted bed to ... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4821886 | Cleaning device for agricultural products Agricultural products often require cleaning before sorting, packing or further processing. Such cleaning generally includes removing unwanted projections, such as roots, stems, loose leaves, foreign articles sticking thereon, etc. If the cleaning is done... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4601080 | Washing apparatus An apparatus for tumbling and cleaning articles such as rocks, clams, potatoes, other vegetables and fruits, and the like. The apparatus has a frame with a container mounted for free rotation thereon. The container has perimetric surfaces with numerous op... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4576765 | Sphere/liquid separator and separation method An apparatus and a method are provided for separating liquid from small spheres, for example spheres formed by gel precipitation. The apparatus comprises sloping screening decks (12, 14), arranged in stepped relationship so that spheres tumble down onto t... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4471876 | Potato cleaning table A cleaning table for sorting newly harvested potatoes or other vegetables from vines, dirt, clods, rocks and other debris. The table includes a deck comprised of a plurality of spaced apart, parallel longitudinal rollers that operate in pairs of counterro... | 09/18/1984 |
| 4234992 | Cleaning apparatus Apparatus for cleaning objects, especially root crops such as sugar beet, comprises first and second members defining first and second surfaces respectively arranged for cleaning objects by relative movement between the surfaces and the objects to be clea... | 11/25/1980 |
| 4197916 | Root crop harvester An improved root crop harvester having a narrow and compact processing chassis adapted to simply and easily receive header assemblies of differing capacities. The header assemblies include a transverse roll conveyor for gathering roots received from the d... | 04/15/1980 |
| 4192386 | Material conveyor A roll conveyor having paired counter-rotating grab rolls includes a reversing roll section on one grab roll for discharging material conveyed along it perpendicularly to the axes of rotation of the paired rolls. One roll of each pair is composed of separ... | 03/11/1980 |
| 4164052 | Self-propelled apparatus for cleaning beets A self-propelled apparatus for cleaning beets comprises a longitudinally extending frame carrying a hopper for receiving beets to be cleaned which is mounted on a raised platform on the frame and is provided with a conveyor for delivering beets to a scree... | 08/14/1979 |
