Abstract:
The present invention is an improvement upon such machines as the McGill #3 Rough Rice Milling Machine, and replica models like the McGill #3 Rough Rice Milling, by eliminating the 5 wear points associated with the machine: back plate, rear plate threaded collar, rear plate rings, back plate wear rings and excentric threaded locking nut. Since these five wear areas are of different structural material, back plate: cast aluminum, rear plate: mild steel, eccentric locking nut: cast bronze, the wear rate is not uniform or predictable, thus causing a draft or misalignment of the milling cylinder in the milling basket assembly. The break bars in the Milling Basket Assembly must be in perfect alignment with the shaft that the milling cylinder rotates on. If a misalignment occurs due to wear or uneven wear on the basket assembly then misrepresentative results of the milling yield will occur.
Abstract:
A seed shucking appliance for separating seed coverings from their kernels comprises a vertical cylinder within which is rotated an upward pointing and rotating cone. The top surfaces of the cone and the inside surfaces of the cylinder are roughened to catch and grate the skins or hulls off water-softened beans or grains poured in from above. The clearances and textures between the roughened cone and inside cylinder are such that most of the skins or shells stay above the cone after being knocked loose, and the bared seed kernels drop down through without necessarily being ground up or smashed. What drops through is sent to a water bath where any remaining skins or shells are floated away. The bared seed kernels are drained and ready to be used as whole seed kernels in various kinds of foods.
Abstract:
A grain threshing device (10) comprising a receptacle (12) or receiving a portion of crop head. The receptacle (12) has a plurality of longitudinal ribs (30) on inner surfaces. One or more flexible arm members (28) are arranged on a rotating shaft (22) within the receptacle (12) such that the flexible arm members (28) strike the ribs (30) during rotation. The action of the flexible arm members (28) and ribs (30) on the crop head within the receptacle (12) separates the grain from the crop head.
Abstract:
In a grain milling machine, a milling chamber 25 is defined by a gap between a cylindrical body 24 and a rotating body 23, and grinding plates 27 and 28 are arranged on both facing surfaces of the milling chamber 25. On the surface of at least one of the grinding plates 27 and 28, polyhedral hard diamond abrasive grains are deposited. The grinding plate 27 provided on the side of the cylindrical body 24 is fixed, and the grinding plate 28 provided on the side of the rotating body 24 moves with respect to the grinding plate 27, so that the surfaces of grains fed into the milling chamber 25 are ground by the grinding function applied between the grinding plates 27 and 28. Thus, it is possible to maintain sufficient grinding force and to carry out efficient and high-quality grain milling without the need of any complicated maintenance of the machine.
Abstract:
A farm implement for harvesting corn (sometimes called maize). The harvester is usable with a farm type combine and is particularly designed to be used in fields that have been planted either by a broadcast method at ground level or from the air, or in clearly spaced rows at spacings which might vary from the usual. The harvester is distinguished by the ear-stripping fingers on a reel at the front of the carrying combine. The fingers strip the ears from the corn stalks in front of the carrying combine and carry them to a delivery auger, which is a standard part of the combine, to be delivered to husking rolls in the combine for husking.
Abstract:
A processor for the wetting of cereals with a liquid, wherein the cereal/liquid mixture is exposed for a short time (2 to 15 seconds) to strong vibration (shaking at approximately 80 Hz), with the result that the cereals directly absorb the liquid into themselves and immediately become transportable and can be further processed, for example can be ground, without a substantial storage time.
Abstract:
An impact detacher with a centrifugal wheel and two or more centrifugal conduits which are enclosed by two or more impact rings, wherein the material to be ground is fed concentrically via a feed pipe and guided away again via an outer annular conduit. Each half of the impact ring is directed to two oppositely directed impact surfaces, wherein the impact detacher can comprise a common product discharge conduit. The centrifugal wheel comprises a guiding apparatus with a divided feed in the area of the product inlet, wherein a larger feed surface is assigned to the centrifugal conduit remote of the feed pipe.
Abstract:
A vertical milling machine comprises a first milling part and a second milling part situated under the first milling part, the first and second milling parts having a common main shaft extending vertically. The first milling part has a supply part of grain on an upper end side thereof and a discharge pare of grain having been milled in the first milling part on a lower end side thereof. The second milling part has a supply part of grain to be milled in the second milling part on a lower end side thereof and a discharge part of grain having been milled in the second milling part on an upper end side thereof. The grain discharge part of the first milling part is communicated with the grain supply part of the second milling part through a grain transfer passage extending therebetween. Thus, degree of milling (degree of whitening) in the first and second milling parts can be adjusted individually without difficulty by provision of resistance means individually with respect to the discharge parts of the first and second milling parts.
Abstract:
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 grain milling chamber so as to impart resistances to motions of the grains in a circumferential direction of an abrasive type roll assembly, an amount of projections of each of the resistance members being made to be adjustable, and further has projection amount adjusting mechanisms for adjusting independently the respective amounts of projection in the radial direction of the plural resistance members located in different vertical positions, and therefore, it is possible to adjust independently the resistance imparted to the motions of the grains within the grain milling chamber in each of the upstream-side region and downstream-side region of the grain milling chamber.
Abstract:
A pearling machine has an abrasive type pearling roll assembly which is formed by stacking a plurality of pearling rolls via intervening air blowing spacers. Stirring bars are secured to the outer periphery of the individual pearling rolls. Resistance bars are provided on the inner surface of a vertical polygonal bran removal cylinder. With a cooperative function of the stirring and resistance bars, grains supplied to a pearling chamber defined by the pearling roll assembly and the bran removal cylinder receive active spinning and revolution action. The grains thus receive uniform cutting action, and thus they are pearled uniformly. The vertical pearling machine permits optimum pearling of grains in dependence on the kind and character of the grains and is suited particularly to the pearling of tempered wheat with outer layer part having been made tough and inner layer part having been made soft.