1143results about "Grain polishing" patented technology

A fabrication process for zone plate lenses is based on controlled thin layer deposition for fabricating structures as small as 2 nanometers (nm) in width, and potentially smaller. The substrate for deposition will take the form of a precision hole, fabricated in a substrate, such as silicon by electron beam lithography and subsequent reactive ion etching. A controlled layer deposition is then used to form the required zone plate structure. A subsequent thinning process is used to section the hole and produce a zone plate with the required layer thicknesses.

A juicer device comprised of a motor disposed within a housing and having an output shaft projecting away from the housing; at least two alternate cutters each individually detachably connectable to the output shaft; a plurality of alternate inserts wherein a selected one of the plurality of alternate inserts circumscribes a selected one of the at least two alternate cutters detachably connected to the output shaft; and a body circumscribing the selected one of the plurality of alternate inserts wherein the body and the selected one of the plurality of alternate inserts include openings for feeding food to the selected one of the at least two alternate cutters detachably connected to the output shaft and openings for receiving juice, homogenized food, or shredded food therefrom upon actuation of the motor under the control of a safety system.

The invention relates generally to an improved plant breeding system. More particularly, this invention relates to a method for automated, high throughput analysis of plant phenotype and plant genotype in a breeding program.

A system and method for remote control of an adjustable threshing cage vane, including while the threshing system is operating, for improving threshing performance and other operating parameters, utilizes an actuator in connection with the at least one vane and remotely controllable for adjustably varying the position thereof, e.g, pitch angle, within the cage for altering the path of the flow of the crop material therethrough. The remote control can be via an automatic controller to provide control responsive to one or more monitored operating parameters, such as grain loss, grain flow, ground speed, and/or throughput, as well as inputted commands.

Methods for inducing the precipitation of substantially water insoluble mineral carbonates in pores, spaces and fractures by conveying a carbon-dioxide (ie. CO2) bearing gaseous phase or an oxidised-carbon-bearing aqueous phase into spaces where reaction with an existing or introduced fluid phase of appropriate composition occurs, or by conveying a fluid of appropriate composition into spaces where reaction of the fluid components with a fluid delivery medium occurs, or by conveying a fluid of appropriate composition into spaces under controlled physical conditions such that unassisted reaction of the fluid components occurs. The present invention also provides a method of reducing the permeability or improving the structural integrity of natural or man-made aggregates of mineral or waste materials comprising the introduction of carbon dioxide or a soluble carbonate species into the aggregate to react with a chemical compound capable of reacting with the carbon dioxide or soluble carbonate species to form a substantially insoluble carbonate within pores, spaces or fractures in the aggregate in broadly controllable geometric distributions, wherein an appropriate chemical compound capable of reacting with the carbon dioxide or soluble carbonate species to form a substantially insoluble carbonate may need to be introduced to the aggregate if not already present in suitable concentrations wherein the carbon dioxide or soluble carbonate species need not be introduced to the aggregate if already present in suitable concentrations. The present invention also provides a method of reducing the permeability or improving the structural integrity of natural or man-made aggregates of mineral or waste materials comprising the introduction of one or more reactive materials to react to form a substantially insoluble carbonate within pores, spaces or fractures.

The present invention provides a rubber composition containing a reclaimed rubber and a method for producing the same. A rubber molded article having excellent rubber properties can be obtained and the recycling of a used rubber product can be promoted by the present invention.A rubber composition of the present invention is a blend comprising a claimed rubber obtained by applying a heat and a shear stress to a vulcanized rubber, a non-vulcanized virgin rubber or/and a thermoplastic resin, wherein the reclaimed rubber contains 40% by weight or more of a residual toluene-insoluble gel component and the network chain density of the rubber in the gel component is 1/20 to 1/4 based on the network chain density of the rubber of the vulcanized rubber.

A blending system includes a first liquid supply arrangement for providing a first liquid component, a second liquid supply arrangement for providing a second liquid component, a mixing arrangement for mixing the first and the second liquid components to form a blending liquid, and a mass flow measuring device for determining the mass flow of the blended liquid at a location downstream of the mixing arrangement. The blending system further includes a control arrangement for controlling the first and the second liquid supply arrangements in response to the mass flow measuring device. The mass flow measuring device may also measure the density and/or volumetric flow of the mixed liquid. The blending system may also be setup without a holding tank.

The invention discloses a rice hulling device with a screening function. The device comprises a hulling box; a feeding pipe is fixedly mounted at the top of the hulling box; a limiting plate is arranged on the side wall of the hulling box, and is in vertical threaded connection with a lead screw; a support plate is fixedly mounted on the right side wall of the hulling box; a driving motor is fixedly mounted on the support plate; a driven shaft parallel to a driving shaft is rotationally arranged in the hulling box; and a second driving belt wheel is fixedly mounted on the driving shaft. The device is convenient to hull and screen rice, low in workload and high in efficiency, rotationally hulls the rice through rotation of an adjusting pressure roller, a first hulling rotating roller and a second hulling rotating roller, greatly improves the rice hulling efficiency, and realizes quick hulling of the rice; and the up-down position of the adjusting pressure roller can be adjusted through a rotating lead screw, so that the position adjustment of the adjusting pressure roller and the first hulling rotating roller and the second hulling rotating roller is realized, the hulling extrusion acting force is increased, and the rice hulling is more thorough.

The invention discloses a refined rice processing method. The refined rice processing method comprises the following steps of rice screening, stone removal, magnetic separation and rice shelling, rice-bran separating, secondary shelling, thickness grading, moisture measurement and drying or atomizing, rice milling and white rice grading, rice cooling, polishing, color sorting, secondary white rice grading and moisture content detection, and packaging. The refined rice processing method comprises a plurality of impurity removal steps, and consequently, the purity of rice is guaranteed, the produced rice is high in purity, and the safety and the processing efficiency in the processing process are guaranteed. In the rice shelling and rice milling steps of the refined rice processing method, the material temperature is strictly controlled so that the material can be always kept in a relative low temperature appropriate environment, and the crack ratio and the broken rice rate can be reduced and the complete particle rate can be increased; the original faint scent of rice is maintained. The refined rice processing method is used for solving the problems of surface damage and uneven polishing in the rice polishing process by controlling the polishing water temperature and the dampening amount; as a result, the surfaces of all the rice grains polished can be kept smooth and clean, and the quality guarantee period of the rice can be prolonged.

An automatic ice cream scooper. A cylinder of ice cream is placed vertically within a refrigerated container on a slicer having a disc shape. The slicer includes an angled slicing blade for removing ice cream. The slicer is rotated by a motor to remove the ice cream. The slicer has an upstanding edge with the screw thread formed thereon for removing the sidewall of the ice cream container.

A unit for processing thermoplastic synthetic material comprising a machine housing (1) with a delivery cone (12) in whose feed shaft (14) a driven slider (30) presses synthetic material which is to be processed and which is located on a base plate (7) through a feed inlet (11) of a conveyor tube (6) against a processing drum (3) which is placed perpendicularly in the conveyor tube (6) in relation to the direction of the movement of the slider (30). The slider (30) extends over the entire length of the feed inlet (11) which itself extends over the entire blade supporting section (17) of the processing drum (3). Blades (4) are placed thereon in a helical line and operate in conjunction with a fixed counter blade (5) which is fastened to the opening edge (25) of the feed inlet (11). The blades (4) and the associated screw conveyor (9) convey disintegrated synthetic material in axial direction (20) though the conveyor tube (6) towards an outlet (10), which leads downwards into the screw tube (22) of the extruder screw (8) through which the synthetic material is delivered.

The invention relates to a method of removing the fibrous shells from cereal grains. This method according to the invention comprises a pretreatment step, wherein the moisture content of the cereal grains is increased, e.g. in the case of corn grains from 16 to more than 20% by weight, followed by the step of exposure of the pretreated grains to a thermal shock by means of a cryogenic medium and thereafter mechanical treatment step thereof.

A method of saving water, wastewater, lime, and energy while increasing productivity and enhancing product quality in a nixtamalization process. More specifically, during the grain cook and steep process, the phase-separated supernate is retained for a subsequent batch of grain. In addition, a fresh water rinse stream is recycled as push water.

A material spreading device for spreading material over a targeted area includes a receiving portion for receiving a plurality of bags of material, a hopper assembly and a material moving device. The material spreading device is configured for use on a vehicle. The hopper assembly has a bag holding portion and a material dispensing bin. The bag holding portion receives at least some of the bags and retains the bags at or near the material dispensing bin. The hopper assembly includes at least one opening device for opening the bags such that material within the opened bags is deposited into the material dispensing bin. The material dispensing bin is operable to dispense or broadcast the material over the targeted area. The material moving device is operable to move the bags of material along the receiving portion and toward the hopper assembly.

Methods and systems for processing oilseed meal. Oilseed meal is hydrated to provide a hydrated oilseed meal. A particle size of the hydrated oilseed meal is reduced to provide a size-reduced oilseed meal. Enhanced oilseed meal is physically separated from the size-reduced oilseed meal.

A combine harvester for corn is adjusted so that the threshing system maintains the grain and cobs together and there is provided a first sieve to separate the grain and cobs from residue material which is discharged from a rear of the first sieve and a second sieve to separate the grain which passes through the second sieve from the cobs which are discharged from a rear end of the second sieve. The grain is transferred to a clean grain tank and the cobs are conveyed to a tank on a towed cart.

The invention aims at the characteristics of complicated process, high energy consumption and high pollution in wet degerming of the existing method of corn deep processing and provides a steam explosion technology for degerming corn and a poly-generation technology for deeply processing corn endosperm.Corn kernals are processed by the steam explosion technology, so that the separation among the endosperm, embryo and testa can be realized. After steam explosion, the corn endosperm is extracted by ethanol and then is distilled, precipitated and the like, so that alcohol-soluble protein and uranidin product can be respectively obtained. After the alcohol-soluble protein and the uranidin of the endosperm are extracted, the endosperm can be used for fermenting the ethanol, and the fermentation effect of the endosperm is slightly better that that of corn endosperm prepared by the wet degerming; furthermore, the step of gelatinization before saccharification and liquidation can be omitted, so that the energy consumption is reduced.

The invention provides technology for processing millet rice with remained germ. In the technology, unpolished rice which is screened through husked rice separation with husking yield and serviceability rate of rice germ more than or equal to 97 percent, moisture content of between 12.5 and 14 weight percent is adopted as a raw material for processing the rice with remained germ; four ranges of rice milling machines are arranged, wherein two parallel machines are arranged in each range; four-placer four-iron combined rollers are adopted in first milling and second milling; an additional air jetting device is arranged in the range of third milling to form a wind packing auger, so that air-jet capacity can reach 120 to 170m/h; the rice milling machine of the fourth range is connected with a set of negative pressure air nets, with air quantity of between 15,000 and 18,000 cubic meters/hour; and the millet rice with remained germ with complete germ and germ content of between 80 and 85 percent can be finally obtained through rice grading screen and color selection. The technology has the advantages of scientific and reasonable design and mature implementing technology; and by the technology, the millet rice with remained germ with complete germ, high germ content and rich nutrient ingredients can be produced, thereby realizing large-scale industrial production of the millet rice with remained germ for the first time.

Material to be processed, such as sludge, is deposited into the trough having an auger operating at a rotational speed and direction so as to force the material received within the trough upstream against a rigid surface for breaking up the sludge. A cutting fluid is added to the trough for diluting the sludge and enhancing a flow of the broken up sludge downstream under a force of gravity, allowing the sludge to enter a chopper, where it is chopped to a desired consistency before being pumped to a desired location. The diluted sludge may be filtered prior to chopping. A hopper and cutter may be used to receive the unprocessed sludge for cutting prior to being deposited into the trough. As a result, sludge in ranges from soft to hard states is converted to a fluid form capable of being pumped.

The invention discloses a combined-type buckwheat shelling machine, which mainly comprises a feed hopper, a milling shelling chamber, a kneading shelling chamber, an air duct 23, an impact shelling chamber and an air duct 29 which are arranged from top to bottom in sequence; a rotating disk and a fixed disk are correspondingly arranged in the milling shelling chamber; a discharge hole 16 is formed in the bottom part of the milling shelling chamber, and the top part of the milling shelling chamber is provided with a milling pan clearance adjustment valve; the kneading shelling chamber is connected below the discharge hole of the milling shelling chamber; two rubber rollers which are different in rotating speed and opposite in rotating direction are correspondingly arranged in the kneading shelling chamber; a discharge hole 19 is formed in the bottom part of the kneading shelling chamber, and the side face of the kneading shelling chamber is provided with a rubber roller clearance adjustment valve; the air duct 23 is connected with the kneading shelling chamber, and the air duct 23 is connected with a fan 24, a feeding hole and a hull dust outlet; the feeding hole of the air duct 23 is connected with the impact shelling chamber; a centrifugal impeller is arranged in the impact shelling chamber; a discharge hole 28 is formed in the bottom part of the impact shelling chamber; the air duct 29 is connected below the discharge hole of the impact shelling chamber; the air duct 29 is connected with a fan 30, a buckwheat rice outlet and the hull dust outlet. According to the combined-type buckwheat shelling machine disclosed by the invention, the buckwheat rice breakage rate of the buckwheat shelling process can be reduced, and the shelling work efficiency and the purity of buckwheat rice are increased.

A machine including a container fitted with a base that extends between lateral walls and end walls. The base partially covers (i) a mixing rotor and (ii) a feed auger which moves products in the skip either in a closed circuit or in a circuit towards a distributing chute. A transfer screw is mounted on top of the feed auger. The transfer screw can include cutting members in the form of sectioning parts. The sectioning parts co-operate with teeth which are disposed on a beam. The teeth can be positioned as necessary either on a beam located in the container or on one or more beams located on the lateral wall. Similarly, the feed auger can also include sectioning parts that co-operate with teeth if required.

Apparatus and methods for slicing and seasoning meat, such as a ham. In one example, the apparatus includes a blade for slicing meat and a sprayer, such as a nozzle, for providing a stream of liquid seasoning in the direction of the blade during slicing, such that the liquid seasoning is distributed in between each slice substantially throughout the cut of meat. The sprayer may be coupled to a domestic water supply and/or at least one reservoir for holding a liquid seasoning. The apparatus may further include a spiral slicing configuration such that the meat is rotated while it is sliced and seasoned. Angling the blade with respect to the meat advantageously provides an opening in the meat so liquid seasoning may be distributed therein during the slicing process. In other examples, multiple sprayers and/or blades may be used.

A grinding type vertical grain milling machine is capable of shortening a dimension of a machine body in the vertical direction and removing bran by evenly suctioning an entire bran removing chamber. The grinding type vertical grain milling machine includes a bran removing metallic mesh cylinder with a main shaft, an integral grinding type grain milling roll body, a bran removing chamber, and a bran discharge pipe that discharges bran to the outside of the machine. A fan-pulley is provided between the bran removing chamber and the bran discharge pipe. The fan-pulley rotationally drives the main shaft to which the grinding type grain milling roll is axially attached and generates a bran removing wind to convey bran produced by the grain milling action of the grinding type grain milling roll from the bran removing chamber toward the bran discharge pipe.

The invention belongs to the field of grain processing equipment, and relates to a vertical rice polisher used for processing brown rice or rice into milled rice with embryo or high milled rice. The vertical rice polisher comprises an upper body of the rice polisher, a lower body of the rice polisher and a control system, wherein the upper body of the rice polisher comprises an upper body shell, a motor, a work spindle, a processing impeller, an upper part of a sealing device, an upper part of a power coupler, a control circuit, a control panel, a rice polishing chamber top cover and a rice guide flange; the lower body of the rice polisher comprises a lower body shell, a rice bran collecting chamber, a rice polishing chamber, a lower part of the sealing device, a lower part of the power coupler, a power module and a power switch; and the control system consists of a power supply module, a control circuit and a control panel. The vertical rice polisher has the advantages of being easy in adjustment of fine whiteness and separation of bran, easy to clean and maintain, easy to assemble and disassemble, capable of completing the processing at one time, high in germ-remained rate, modularized, small, light in weight, simple in structure, reliable in functions, stable in performance and the like.

The invention discloses a rice screening and husking device, and belongs to the technical field of agricultural machinery and equipment. The rice screening and husking device comprises a husking cabinet. An extrusion husking mechanism, a drying and adhesion resisting mechanism and a screening and separating mechanism are arranged in the husking cabinet. A feed box is arranged at the top of the husking cabinet. A leakproof hopper is arranged at the top of the feed box. A flow control component is arranged on the lower section of the feed box. The extrusion husking mechanism comprises a spacingadjustment component and two mounting shafts. Each mounting shaft is sleeved with a rotating drum. The spacing adjustment component comprises two spacing adjustment members. Each spacing adjustment member comprises a support frame, a moving piece, a left bearing block and a right bearing block. The rice screening and husking device has the advantages that rice in the feed box can be fed for multiple times through the flow control component, the drying and adhesion resisting mechanism can dry the rice to prevent adhesion, and the extrusion force for husking can be adjusted by the extrusion husking mechanism to meet demands of different users.

A filtering system used on a meat injection machine that injects pickling into meat products. The filter consists of a tank and a first and second rotary filter. The first rotary filter uses a wedge wire wound cylinder and augers having flutes that rotate to catch and push away solid particles toward the second filter. The second filter then uses more wedge wire in a whirlpool effect to ensure all solid materials and foam are in the outside of the filter. Injector fluid is then taken from the center of the inside volume of the second filter to be used in injection needles.

A method of decontaminating grain, nut, or seed products and a method for conditioning grain in a milling process for decontamination and to produce an improved milled product which will yield baked goods, for example, of increased size and extended shelf life. In the decontamination and/or conditioning procedure, the grain, nut, or seed product is contacted with an aqueous anolyte product which can be undiluted or can be diluted with non-activated water. In undiluted form, the aqueous anolyte product preferably has a pH in the range of from about 4.5 to about 7.5 and a positive oxidation-reduction potential of at least ⁺550 mV.

The invention provides a paddy rice producing production technology for removing pesticide residue, and relates to the technical field of the processing and the producing of food, wherein the production technology comprises the following steps of: cleaning paddy, separating hull grains from hulled materials, removing the pesticide residue by means of coarseness humidifying, milling rice, removing the pesticide residue in a polishing way, and removing the pesticide residue by ultrasonic wave. The paddy rice producing production technology for removing the pesticide residue provided by the invention combines with the production of paddy rice producing, mainly aims at solving the problem that the paddy contains the pesticide residue, is scientific in technological process design, reasonable in technical method, and low in production cost, effectively and reliably removes the pesticide residue, can subsidiarily kill the toadstool in the paddy, can produce the paddy clearly, guarantees the quality safety of paddy-processed products, is free from secondary pollution of rice products in the process of processing and producing, can not change the original quality, nutrition and special flavor of the paddy, is particularly suitable for preparing the products which are higher in nutrition value and economic value such as germ-remaining rice, the clean rice and the like besides the common rice, and is further good for reducing the pesticide residue of byproducts prepared by comprehensive utilization.

A conveyor system for receiving corn cobs with husks still attached thereto after harvesting of the corn from the cobs, and detaching the husks from the cobs, including a conveyor inclined at an angle of at least about 30 degrees and bounding a passage for receiving a flow of the cobs including the husks attached thereto, the conveyor including apparatus configured and operable for mechanically grasping and detaching the husks from the cobs and pulling the detached husks through the conveyor, and at least one blower configured and operable for urging the husks within the passage toward the apparatus. The conveyor system can be provided in connection with a cob collection device, such as on a trailer to be towed by a harvester. The conveyor system can also include an additional conveyor or conveyors, optionally including apparatus for removing or cleaning crop residue from the cobs.

The device for treating food wastes is attached to a lower side of a drainage port of a kitchen sink for thereby dehydrating food wastes, grinding the same into small pieces, so that it is possible to significantly decrease the amount of food wastes. The device for treating food wastes comprises a housing which includes a feeding port formed at an upper side of the same for feeding food wastes, a drainage port formed at one side of a lower surface of the same for discharging leachate separated from the fed food wastes, and a discharge hole formed at the other side of the lower surface of the same for discharging dehydrated remnants among the food wastes; an inner casing which is installed at a certain distance from an inner wall of the housing and includes a drainage net installed at an upper side for discharging water fed together with the food wastes, a drum which is installed at a center of the same and has a plurality of wall surface blades at an inner circumferential surface, and a dehydration net installed at a lower side of the same for discharging leachate; a grinding screw which is vertically installed at an inner side of the inner casing and includes a plurality of screw blades installed at an outer circumferential portion and contacting with a wall surface blade of the drum, and the dehydration net.