US 6,347,579 B1Granted

Husking apparatus

AssigneeSatake Corporation

InventorsMasahide Houri, Minoru Koreda, Takeshi Mito, Satoru Satake

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Abstract

A husking apparatus supplies cereal grains between a pair of rotating rubber rolls through a guiding chute, rubs and husks them. A roll diameter marker for indicating an abrasion degree of the diameter of one of the rubber rolls is provided near the minimum gap between the rubber rolls. An incline angle changing marker previously marked with a changing degree of a position or an angle of incline of the guiding chute in correspondence to the roll diameter marker is provided near the lower end of the guiding chute. An operator can readily detect the diameter of the rubber roll by means of the roll diameter marker and accurately set the position or the angle of incline of the guiding chute in accordance with the incline angle changing marker.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A husking apparatus comprising:

a pair of rubber rolls provided to be adjustable of a gap therebetween, the rubber rolls being rotated in opposite directions to each other at different peripheral speeds and having rotational axes at different heights;
a guiding chute arranged above the pair of rubber rolls, the guiding chute having a position or an angle of incline manually changeable for arranging cereal grains in a belt-like state and supplying the cereal grains between the rubber rolls;
transportation means for feeding the cereal grains to the guiding chute;
a roll diameter marker provided near a position of the minimum gap between the pair of rubber rolls for visually indicating an abrasion degree of a diameter of one of the pair of rubber rolls to an operator;
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an incline angle changing marker provided near a lower end of the guiding chute, the incline angle changing marker being previously marked with a change degree of the position or the angle of incline of the guiding chute in correspondence to the roll diameter marker.

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