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US 5,516,048 AGranted
Process for treatment of whole-wheat cereals
AssigneeSteinmetz-Patent-Mullerei KG
InventorOtto Falk
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Abstract
A process for the processing of whole-wheat cereals in which: the grains are subject to a shower wash using only little more water than is necessary to enclose the surface of the grains; counterflowing air is conducted past the grains to remove excess water; and the grains are exposed to a collision turbulence process.
Claims6
A process for removing an outer coating of grains of whole-wheat cereals, comprising:
- shower washing the grains to enclose the surface of the grains with water and removing excess water from the grains, whereby a predetermined quantity of moisture is absorbed in the grains in a morphologically determined separation zone between longitudinal and transverse cell layers of the grains;
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- subjecting the grains to diametral collision turbulence to remove the outer coatings by conducting the grains into engagement with fixed working surface and with rotating working surfaces, the fixed working surfaces and the rotating surfaces defining a chamber, and diametrally accelerating the grains turbulently and into diametral collisions with one another through the use of formations on the fixed and rotating working surfaces.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.