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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8104400 | Husking-roll driving device in hull remover There are provided a first belt-clutch mechanism switching power transmission to a first large-diameter pulley, and, at the same time, a second belt clutch mechanism switching power transmission to a second large-diameter pulley, and a first and a second belt... | 01/31/2012 |
| 7900554 | Method for controlling the roll weighting in roll shellers A method for controlling the roll weighting in roll shellers, in particular in rubber roll shellers for shelling rice or other cereal grains, includes recipe values for the grains to be shelled making it possible to independently regulate motor current, feed quantit... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7246707 | Two-slat design for a small piece remover A slat arrangement for use with an apparatus that removes undesirable pieces from a plurality of pieces based upon size. The slat arrangement comprises a plurality of slats, wherein adjacent slats define a plurality of pockets. ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6530310 | Peeling apparatus and associated methods A peeling apparatus may include a frame, a set of mounts being removably connected to a first end of the frame adjacent at least one first roller opening and each mount including a flange bearing. The peeler may also include a set of abrasive rollers bein... | 03/11/2003 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6389963 | Peeling element The present invention relates to a peeling element having an elongated shape and being attached to a mechanism for rotating the peeling element around a rotation axis and includes peeling arrangements on an outer surface. To allow a product to be peeled w... | 05/21/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6209448 | Nut cracking machine A nut cracking machine comprises a cylinder mounted in bearings for rotation about a long axis of the cylinder. The cylinder has projections extending radially from its cylindrical surface. An anvil plate is held at a fixed predetermined distance from the... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6098530 | Mechanical nut cracker A mechanical nut cracker for a machine having an adjustably positioned crushing plate and crusher bar for cracking various types of nuts. The mechanical nut cracker includes a crusher assembly having a crusher bar rotationally attached to an end of a base... | 08/08/2000 |
| 5931087 | SpencCracker, an apparatus for shucking pecans An apparatus for shucking pecans having a stator, which is a trapezoidal front plate with a pair of adjoining tapered side-walls with longitudinal edges, a mounting bracket for immobilizing the stator, and a chute which is a reservoir for the pecans, wher... | 08/03/1999 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5295629 | Vertical type grain-milling machine A vertical type grain-milling machine has a perforated bran removing cylinder arranged vertically with respect to a machine frame; a main shaft which is rotatably provided within the perforated bran removing cylinder; and a milling roll and a screw roll w... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5245918 | Pistachio nut hulling apparatus A pistachio huller provided wherein a means (16) having projections (18) pushes unhulled nuts between the surface of the means having projections and a surface of a means (30) having channels (28), the channels being wider than the pistachio nuts to be hu... | 09/21/1993 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5146846 | Roller assembly for grain shellers A roller assembly for grain shellers, the assembly including a metal sleeve having locking lugs fixed therein, a sleeve of flexible material bonded to the exterior of the metal sleeve, the locking lugs being adapted for connection to a mounting hub, there... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5134928 | Peeling rollers for vegetables Peeling rollers for vegetables, particularly root crops each comprising an hourglass-shaped core roller having a recessed portion defined and an outer cylindrical elastomer member concentrically surrounding the core roller, thereby constituting a space en... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5110382 | Method for making a roller assembly for grain shellers A method for making a roller sleeve assembly comprising providing a metal sleeve, forming apertures extending radially through the sleeve, bonding a flexible sleeve to the exterior of the metal sleeve and permitting the flexible sleeve material to fill ce... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5076158 | Nutcracker apparatus An apparatus wherein a platform mounts an electric drive for selective use and cooperation with a manual crank to rotate a drum supporting shaft to rotate a drum in cooperation with a chute, wherein the chute includes a convex grinding surface to receive ... | 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 |
| 4913045 | Polished-rice humidifying apparatus and rice milling system In an apparatus for humidifying polished rice, a conveyor has a tubular housing which defines a predetermined transport path for the polished rice. The conveyor conveys the polished rice, while steering the same, along the transport path. A humidifier is ... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4909140 | Apparatus for splitting closed shell pistachio nuts There is provided an apparatus for splitting closed pistachio nuts in a controlled manner such that the longitudinal sutures of the nuts will be cracked open. The apparatus includes a cylindrical housing with a mandrel mounted for rotation therein to prov... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4897440 | Abrasion resistant hulling rolls from carboxylated nitrile rubber An improved, abrasion-resistant rice hulling roll comprises a core with coating of a nitrile rubber compound, particularly a carboxylated nitrile rubber compound. The hulling rolls of this invention are characterized by substantially improved wear life as... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4843957 | Rice polishing machine of vertical shaft and frictional type Provided is a rice polishing machine of a vertical shaft and frictional type, comprising a vertical tubular member, having a perforated wall; a vertical main shaft rotatably disposed in the tubular member and having one end part and an other end part; a s... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4662274 | Rice-hulling roller This disclosure relates to the structure of a roller for hulling rice. The roller comprises a core including a cylinder, a boss section on the interior of the cylinder, and a rubber layer provided on the outer circumference of the cylinder. The cylinder i... | 05/05/1987 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4313374 | Machine for hulling nuts A machine for hulling nuts having a rotationally driven horizontal disc provided with an upwardly disposed abrasive surface; a cylindrical casing coaxially related to the disc, closely spaced from its periphery, and provided with a discharge opening; a co... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4292890 | Grain polishing and whitening machine A grain polishing and whitening machine, particularly adapted for treatment of rice, comprises a base box, housing means having first, second, third and fourth coaxially arranged housing sections, said second housing section being coaxially mounted on sai... | 10/06/1981 |
