Abstract: Supplemental food formulations are described herein that can contain various nutrients, including at least four of the following: amino acid blend, fulvic-humic acids, multi-minerals, glycerin, phosphatidylinositol, sesquiterpene alkaloids, terpenes, medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs), coconut oil, whole plant matter, plant seeds, mushrooms, seaweeds, kelp, and flavoring agents.

Abstract: Automated grinder systems include several different automatic functions including liquid and substrate soaking, mixing, grinding, fermenting, and cleaning. Example grinders include storages for soaking and draining a substrate for grinding, a water or other fluid reservoir connected to provide soaking material, and a grinder connected to the storage to receive and grind the substrate. A resting unit may receive the ground batter and potentially ferment the same by controlling its temperature, humidity, pH, etc. Jets may be connected to a water reservoir and direct liquid water into the grinder, potentially with soap, to cleanse the same.

Abstract: In an apparatus for humidifying polished rice, a conveyor has a tubular housing which defines a predetermined transport path for the polished rice. The conveyor conveys the polished rice, while steering the same, along the transport path. A humidifier is arranged in association with the transport path for adding moisture to the polished rice conveyed along the transport path to humidify the polished rice. A blower is arranged in association with the transport path for causing air to flow therealong. A rice milling system comprises a rice polishing machine and the apparatus connected thereto. The rice polishing machine polishes brown rice to form the polished rice. Polishing of the brown rice to the polished rice raises temperature of the polished rice. The polished rice elevated in temperature is supplied to the housing of the apparatus.

Abstract: A grain polishing machine of a vertical shaft and friction type in which a vertical polishing rotor and a bran removing polishing cylinder surrounding the former have each different diameters so as to have step parts dividing a polishing chamber defined between the polishing rotor and the polishing cylinder into a plurality of parts which are communicated with each other through connection passages that are defined between the step parts of the polishing rotor and the polishing cylinder thereby to prevent the weight of grain in the upper part of the polishing chamber from affecting the polishing pressure in the lower part thereof so that the polishing pressure in the polishing chamber is made to be uniform as a whole.

Abstract: Provided is a rice polishing machine of a vertical shaft and frictional type, comprising a vertical tubular member, having a perforated wall; a vertical main shaft rotatably disposed in the tubular member and having one end part and an other end part; a spiral rotor fitted on the one end part of the vertical main shaft; a polishing rotor having an outer peripheral surface on which agitating projection ridges are formed, fitted on the other end part of the main shaft and further having a center axis around which the polishing rotor rotates in a certain rotating direction; and a polishing chamber mainly defined by the tubular member and the polishing rotor and having upper and lower ends one of which is connected with a rice grain feed section and the other of which is connected with a rice grain discharge section, wherein the peripheral surface of the polishing rotor is formed such that the distance between the center axis of the polishing rotor and a part of the peripheral surface of the polishing rotor, whic

Abstract: A depulping machine comprises a frame, a shaft mounted on the frame and at least one circular disk mounted for rotation on the shaft. The shaft passes perpendicularly through the disk. The disk tapers in a radially outward direction of the shaft and has spirally radiating ribs projecting laterally from opposite faces of the disk. A hopper is supported on the frame above the disks. Adjustable depulping plates are attached to the frame adjacent to, but spaced from the disks, and have cutting edges which cooperate with independently adjustable guide brackets and the disk faces and ribs to force pulp between the disk and the plates and to push beans, pits and the like on the plates along the edges, and out the machine.

Abstract: An oscillating deck for treatment of a product such as peanuts is mounted on a main frame by air mounts. The deck is driven in linear oscillation by a pair of vibration motors. The deck supports a cascade of conveying surfaces which deliver the product to treatment stages such as rollers and debris removal devices; the treatment stages being mounted independently of the deck.

Abstract: A vertical frictionally abrasive roll rice polishing machine in which a vertical rotary shaft extended in the vertically axial direction of a framework assembly, a vertical frictionally abrasive roll is mounted at the upper end of the shaft, a polishing cylinder surrounds the abrasive roll in coaxial and peripherally spaced relationship to the roll to define an annular polishing chamber therebetween, the polishing cylinder rotates and moves depending upon load applied thereto, the abrasive roll rotates but does not move vertically, a material supply passage is formed above the polishing chamber and a polished rice discharge passage is formed below the polishing chamber.

Abstract: The invention relates to a rice polishing machine including a housing with a shaft which is mounted essentially horizontally therein and which carries a drive coupling member on one end thereof and a polishing rotor with a polishing surface on the opposite end thereof, and also carries a conveyor screw connected coaxially and fixedly to the polishing rotor. The housing is provided with a rice feed orifice at the conveyor screw, and with a rice discharge orifice at the end remote from the conveyor screw. In addition, a screen housing is provided, surrounding the rotor at a short distance therefrom, and a funnel member is provided underneath the screen housing for collecting and discharging the polishing powder. The present invention contemplates an uncomplicated and easily understandable construction which can easily be dismantled and is easily maintained.

Abstract: A rice hulling and sorting machine includes a pair of hulling rolls which drop husked rice grains into a pneumatic sorting compartment which the husks are preliminary sorted from the rice grains; the rice grains thereafter being thrown upwardly into one end of the upper of two horizontally mounted rotating sorting cylinders. The interior surfaces of these cylinders have a multitude of recesses for trapping single rice grains at the bottom of their circumferential paths of movement to carry them upwardly and dropping them into conveying troughs which run the length of the interiors of the cylinders. Rice grains which are not trapped in the upper cylinder are fed back into the hulling rolls while those dropped into the upper trough are fed to the lower interior of the lower cylinder where they are again subject to being trapped in the recesses of the lower cylinder and dropped into the lower conveyor trough.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for degerming maize are disclosed. The maize is introduced into a cylindrical, perforated working housing in which is mounted a rapidly rotating rotor which drives the maize along an annular working chamber between the rotor and housing. The rotor carries a large number of blades having edges which detach the germ from the endosperm. A collecting chamber surrounds the working housing, and the working housing is provided with an outlet aperture for oversize particles.

Abstract: A grain polishing and whitening machine, particularly adapted for treatment of rice, comprises a base box, housing means having first, second, third and fourth coaxially arranged housing sections, said second housing section being coaxially mounted on said first housing section such that it may be rotatably displaced with respect thereto, said third section being coaxially mounted on said second section, and said fourth section being coaxially mounted on said third section such that it can be rotatably displaced with respect thereto, concentric hollow rotor means extending through said first, second and third housing sections, grain feed means in said second housing section, screw conveyor means within said second housing section and having a helical rib lined with an abrasive layer, for displacing and rubbing said grains along said second housing section and into the third housing section, cylindrical indented screen means in said third housing section adjustable, diametrically opposed, diagonally fluted kni

Abstract: A whitening, polishing or pearling machine for grains and cereals and more particularly for rice, vertically disposed, composed of an integral chamber which has an entry or grain feeder, said grain being transported to a section where it is treated in order to whiten or polish it, the grain once treated being passed through a centrifugal extractor to collect the product, or to a regulating hopper which is connected directly to another machine exactly like the first in order to complete the treatment or to another process if the grain has now been totally polished.The grain is treated by centrifuging by means of a rotor which casts it toward screens, raising it by the thrust of a feed screw which rubs the grains against each other, against the screens and also against work-intensifying knives located within the treatment section or chamber, driving out the particles of the flour produced during treatment to a discharge where they are collected.

Abstract: Apparatus comprising hulling means, winnowing means, sorting means, and conveyor means. Said hulling and winnowing means are housed in a platform-like box having longer longitudinal sides and shorter transverse sides. The sorting means is operated to move along the longitudinal sides of box, and the path of circulation of grain through the hulling means, conveyor means and sorting means is made short by locating them adjacently to each other.

Abstract: A method is characterized by causing a container with grain loaded therein to perform two rotary motions, that is a rotary motion about its own axis and a rotary motion about an axis of rotation extending in parallel with and in the same plane as its own axis, with subsequent positive removal of seed covers. The method enables the separation of seed cover from endosperm of grain of various cereal crops without destructing endosperm. An apparatus for carrying out this method is provided with at least two containers mounted in a hollow casing in parallel relative to each other for rotation about their common axes and interconnected for combined rotation about a common axis of rotation extending in parallel with their own axes. The apparatus has means for charging grain communicated with the containers, as well as collectors for seed covers and endosperm of grain communicated with the containers.