摘要:
Apparatus is provided for slitting the skins of shelled peanuts, or the like, without splitting the nuts. Peanuts are fed in a single stream into the bite of a pair of rollers mounted one above the other for rotation about parallel horizontal axes. The rollers are driven to carry the stream of nuts into engagement with slitting elements disposed on both sides of the bite of the rollers. The upper roller is carried by a yoke pivoted to a drive shaft and is adapted to rise and fall to and away from the lower roll according to the size of the nut being fed therethrough whereby a substantially constant gripping pressure is applied to the nuts irrespective of the size of the nut. A power drive system connects between the drive shaft and the upper roll.
摘要:
Apparatus for separating vegetables from their shells is characterized by a cylindrical basket element defining a volume in which raw, unshelled vegetables are received. Disposed within the basket is a plurality of arcuate segments. The leading edge of each segment projects radially inwardly into the radially outer regions of the basket volume to define a gap between the edge of the segment and the basket element. Vegetables to be shelled are introduced into the basket volume and agitated to cause the vegetables to be ejected from their shells. The vegetables and the empty shells collect toward the radially outer regions of the basket volume. A strainer element is disposed in the gap between the leading edges of each of the arcuate segments and the basket. The strainer is sized to permit only shelled vegetables to pass therethrough. Rotation of the basket volume in a predetermined angular direction moves the strainer elements through the collected vegetables and empty shelled to permit only the vegetables to pass circumferentially from the interior of the basket, while retaining the shelled therewithin.
摘要:
An improvement in apparatus and method for the removal of the seed coat, or bran layers, and the germ from cereal grains in the presence of a liquid. Said improvement in apparatus and method includes the provision, and use, of a vessel containing kernels of grain (preferably whole kernels) immersed in a liquid medium, and means for moving a member such as a blade or bar rapidly through the liquid medium and preferably at a velocity relative to said medium in excess of 10 feet per second to cause an impacting face of said movable member to strike against the kernels of cereal grain in said liquid to detach the seed coat and germ from said kernels.