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US 4,325,516 AGranted
Apparatus for the grinding of surplus bread
AssigneeIsmar GmbH
InventorTheodor Ismar
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Abstract
A grinding mill for grinding surplus bread includes an upright cylindrical housing containing a preliminary grinding chamber, a subsequently arranged hammermill and a strainer through which the finished ground stock leaves the grinding mill. The preliminary grinding chamber includes rotor mounted pre-cutting knives and wall mounted breaker strips. Feeding teeth mounted on the rim of the rotor communicate the pre-cut bread from the preliminary grinding chamber through an annular gap to the hammermill for final grinding by rotor mounted mill hammers and wall mounted breaker strips.
Claims5
A grinding mill for grinding surplus bread comprising:
- an upright cylindrical housing;
- a single rotor disc centrally rotating within said housing and having an upper side, a lower side, and a rim;
- a plurality of paired pre-cutting knives arranged at right angles to a radius of said rotor disc and mounted on said upper side of said rotor disc;
- a plurality of mill hammers attached to the lower side of the rotor disc;
- a plurality of breaker strips mounted on the inner wall of the cylindrical housing adjacent the precutting knives and forming a preliminary grinding device in a preliminary grinding chamber;
- a plurality of breaker strips mounted on the inner wall of the cylindrical housing adjacent the mill hammers and forming a hammermill in a grinding chamber;
- said cylindrical housing and said rotor disc rim forming an annular gap therebetween and connecting said preliminary grinding chamber and said grinding chamber;
- a plurality of feeding teeth rotatably mounted within said annular gap on the rim of said rotor disc at an inclined angle to the horizontal such that a top edge portion of said plurality of feeding teeth comprises a leading edge;
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- a strainer operatively associated with said cylindrical housing through which finished ground stock is communicated from the grinding mill.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.