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US 5,292,005 AGranted
Apparatus for roasting coffee beans or the like
AssigneeBlaw-Knox Food and Chemical Equipment, Inc.
InventorsJack Wireman, Daniel R. Wireman
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AssigneeBlaw-Knox Food and Chemical Equipment, Inc.
InventorsJack Wireman, Daniel R. Wireman
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An apparatus for roasting coffee beans or the like includes a controlled spinning bed or fluid bed roaster in combination with a cyclone separator for removing chaff from the heating medium. The cyclone separator is disposed above and in coaxial and abutting relationship with the roaster. The separator has a generally cylindrical shape with a plate having a plurality of louvers in the base thereof. The louvers impart rotational movement as the heating medium passes therethrough so that the chaff can be removed therefrom. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, a second centrifugal separator which is relatively small with respect to the first separator is disposed adjacent the first separator for making a final separation and returning the heated medium to the roaster.
A cyclone separator comprising a generally cylindrical body having an inner wall and an annular opening at the bottom thereof, means including a plurality of radially extending louvers communicating with said opening at the bottom of said cylindrical body for receiving an upward flow of heated gas and entrained debris and for imparting sufficient rotational movement to the flow of gas so that the centrifugal forces imparted on the debris move the debris outwardly against said inner wall and upwardly toward the top of said cylindrical body, first exhaust means communicating with said top of said cylindrical body for exhausting a major portion of a flow of gas which is relatively free of debris from said cylindrical body and second exhaust means in an upper portion of said cylindrical body next to said inner wall for removing a minor portion of the gas with a majority of the debris from said cylindrical body.
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