Apparatus for washing cereals
OwnerNobuo Akizawainventor
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Abstract
An apparatus for washing cereals to wash them in a cereal washing tank by a jet water rotor. The invention includes collecting the water-cereal mix and removal of the heavier cereals from the mix which overflows a receiver to remove lighter weight wastes.
Claims7
An apparatus for washing cereals comprising in combination, a hopper of reduced size at the lower part thereof, and having an opening at its bottom, a cereal washing tank positioned under the opening and larger than the opening, the said opening being no lower than that of a cover on the tank, which cover has an opening therein, a hollow water supply tube projecting into the cereal washing tank, and a hollow rotor on said tube and connecting to said tube, the rotor having an upper vertically extending flange plate with a notch at the upper edge thereof and having a jet hole in the rotor for water discharge to rotate the rotor, and the top of the rotor extending into the opening in the lower part of the hopper to reduce the discharge area thereof.
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