Integrated machine for processing nuts with hard or soft shells
AssigneeJose Borrell S.A.
InventorJose Vicente Roig Borrell
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Abstract
An integrated machine for processing nuts with hard or soft shells, having a feeding hopper and a processing mechanism suitable for peeling or dehulling the fruit, including screener arranged below the processing mechanism, the screener comprising at least one screen element to separate the product into two levels, where the processing mechanism includes an outlet for the mixture obtained after processing the fruit and arranged in correspondence with a projection of a first inlet end of the screener, and a selector to make a selection by suction applied to at least one level of the screening means.
Claims11
An integrated machine for processing nuts with hard or soft shells, which comprises:
- a feeding hopper and a processing mechanism for peeling or dehulling or peeling and dehulling the nuts to produce a mixture which is screened by the machine:
- a screening device arranged below the processing mechanism, with a first end for introducing the mixture and a second opposite end, the screening device comprising at least one screen element to separate the mixture on two levels;
- where the processing mechanism has an outlet for a mixture obtained after processing the nuts, arranged in correspondence with a projection of a first inlet end of the screener, and
- a suction selection device which applies suction to at least one level of the screening device;
- wherein the processing mechanism is formed by a closed belt located lower than the feeding hopper and arranged around a first roller and a second roller separated from each other both determining a first end of the closed belt connected to the feeding hopper and a second end of said belt provided with the outlet for the mixture obtained after processing the nuts, and where the first roller or the second roller is provided with roller mechanisms to rotate around its central axis such that an upper part of the closed belt has a movement from the first end towards the second end and, a third roller connected to a motor rotating, in use, in an opposite direction to that of the first and second rollers and located above said closed belt at a distance from said closed belt such that between the first roller or the second roller provided with a roller mechanism and said closed belt is a space for nuts to pass through, so that said nuts are peeled, dehulled or peeled and dehulled.
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