POLISHED CEREAL PROCESSING APPARATUS

• Main Authors: MUNESADA TAKESHI, FUJIKAWA HIDEFUMI, KAWANO YUKIHIRO, UDA SYUJI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 08.08.2002
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES; COFFEE MILLS; CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; FURNITURE; HUMAN NECESSITIES; KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; OTHER SEPARATING BY DRY METHODS APPLICABLE TO BULK MATERIAL,e.g. LOOSE ARTICLES FIT TO BE HANDLED LIKE BULK MATERIAL; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PREPARATORY TREATMENT OF GRAIN FOR MILLING; PREPARING GRAIN FOR MILLING; REFINING GRANULAR FRUIT TO COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS BY WORKING THESURFACE; SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SEPERATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS BY SIEVING, SCREENING, ORSIFTING OR BY USING GAS CURRENTS; SORTING; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL; TRANSPORTING

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 polished cereal so that the remaining bran is captured by the granular material, and separating the polished cereal with bran removed and the granular material with bran captured; and a granular material reprocessing section for reprocessing the granular material with bran captured and feeding back the reprocessed granular material to the polished cereal processing section for recycling the granular material. The granular material reprocessing section includes a screen tube for separating the granular material within a predetermined granularity range and a removing roller arranged to rotate in the screen tube for removing the bran captured on surfaces of the granular material fed into the screen tube. The bran captured on surfaces of the granular material is effectively removed by the removing roller rotating in the screen tube and the granular material with bran removed to have granularity within a predetermined range is separated by the screen tube and fed back to the polished cereal processing section for recycling the granular material.