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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5024148 | Coating removal device for granular materials A device for removing coatings from granular materials such as hull-encased meats of grains. The device includes a housing within which is journaled a rotatably disposed drum. A wall is also mounted within the housing, the wall angling downwardly and bein... | 06/18/1991 |
| 4978078 | Apparatus for dehusking grain A discoid element (7, 8) for a helical screw or worm arrangement comprising, on each side, identical shallow depressions (20); each depression having an open end (21) adjacent the periphery and a closed end (22) adjacent a central bore (23). The depressio... | 12/18/1990 |
| 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 |
| 4658712 | Coffee depulping machine A depulping machine comprises a frame, a shaft mounted on the frame and at least one circular disk mounted for rotation on the shaft. The shaft passes perpendicularly through the disk. The disk tapers in a radially outward direction of the shaft and has s... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4317411 | Rotary peanut and blanching apparatus Shelled nuts, particularly peanuts, are blanched by depositing the nuts in a stream onto the surface of a horizontal, rotating table. Relatively fixed baffles or vanes having abrasive working faces are positioned slightly above the upper surface of the ro... | 03/02/1982 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4066012 | Roll type huller A roll type huller including a housing, a pair of hulling rolls parallelly spaced apart within the housing, a main shaft carrying one of the rolls and supported by the housing rotatably about a fixed axis, and a counter shaft carrying the other roll and s... | 01/03/1978 |
| 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 |
| 4003303 | Apparatus for shelling and cleaning cereals Apparatus for shelling or husking cereals comprising a horizontally oriented rotatable drum, a perforated cylinder surrounding and spaced from the annular wall of the drum, a radial chamber on the inlet side of the drum, an annular chamber between the sur... | 01/18/1977 |
