Serial Zones Patents (Class 99/613)
  • Patent number: 6951169
    Abstract: In a horizontal grinding-type rice polishing machine which is so configured that a grinding roller (1) installed circularly and fixedly on a horizontal rotation axis (10) is covered with a concentric cylindrical bran removing screen (S) that can be split into longitudinal two screen halves (2) to thereby form a rice polishing room, the total of even number of a stopper (3) and a flap (4) are fixedly provided on an inner peripheral surface of each of two-part split screen halves (2) of the bran removing screen (S) so that they align alternately in the axial direction, the stopper (3) and the flap (4) being formed by a circular arc member which curves along the circumference of a circular cross section perpendicular to the axial center of the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Assignees: Seirei Kogyo Kabushikigaisha, Yanmar Nouki Kabushikigaisha
    Inventor: Shigeo Ohno
  • Patent number: 6886453
    Abstract: A rice polisher for polishing rice, which is a preprocess necessary for producing pre-white rice having a favorable taste by using a small amount of water, a pre-polished rice producing apparatus that uses the rice polisher, a leveling device capable of uniformly leveling grains, and a pre-polished rice producing facility. The rice polisher includes a grain-lifting spiral for transporting white rice above from below, a water-pouring port for pouring polishing water, the water-pouring port being disposed at a head portion, a discharge port for discharging the white rice, the discharge port being disposed at the head portion, and a rice-polishing roll for polishing rice by agitating together with the polishing water poured from the water-pouring port the white rice pressurized by transportation by the grain-lifting spiral, with the polisher discharging from the discharge port the white rice that has been polished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yamamoto Seisakusho
    Inventors: Soichi Yamamoto, Masashi Shibata, Yoichi Adachi, Harou Mori, Yuji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6827008
    Abstract: The present invention intends to realize a non-washing rice presenting a good taste by performing the pressure rice washing under the most appropriate conditions in correspondence to the polished rice to be washed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Inventor: Satoru Imura
  • Patent number: 6752072
    Abstract: A rice polisher for polishing rice, which is a preprocess necessary for producing pre-white rice having a favorable taste by using a small amount of water, a pre-polished rice producing apparatus that uses the rice polisher, a leveling device capable of uniformly leveling grains, and a pre-polished rice producing facility. The rice polisher includes a grain-lifting spiral for transporting white rice above from below, a water-pouring port for pouring polishing water, the water-pouring port being disposed at a head portion, a discharge port for discharging the white rice, the discharge port being disposed at the head portion, and a rice-polishing roll for polishing rice by agitating together with the polishing water poured from the water-pouring port the white rice pressurized by transportation by the grain-lifting spiral, with the polisher discharging from the discharge port the white rice that has been polished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yamamoto Seisakusho
    Inventors: Soichi Yamamoto, Masashi Shibata, Yoichi Adachi, Haruo Mori, Yuji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6748852
    Abstract: A rice polisher for polishing rice, which is a preprocess necessary for producing pre-white rice having a favorable taste by using a small amount of water, a pre-polished rice producing apparatus that uses the rice polisher, a leveling device capable of uniformly leveling grains, and a pre-polished rice producing facility. The rice polisher includes a grain-lifting spiral for transporting white rice above from below, a water-pouring port for pouring polishing water, the water-pouring port being disposed at a head portion, a discharge port for discharging the white rice, the discharge port being disposed at the head portion, and a rice-polishing roll for polishing rice by agitating together with the polishing water poured from the water-pouring port the white rice pressurized by transportation by the grain-lifting spiral, with the polisher discharging from the discharge port the white rice that has been polished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yamamoto-Seisakusho
    Inventors: Soichi Yamamoto, Masashi Shibata, Yoichi Adachi, Haruo Mori, Yuji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6539849
    Abstract: A rice polisher for polishing rice, which is a preprocess necessary for producing pre-white rice having a favorable taste by using a small amount of water, a pre-polished rice producing apparatus that uses the rice polisher, a leveling device capable of uniformly leveling grains, and a pre-polished rice producing facility. The rice polisher includes a grain-lifting spiral for transporting white rice above from below, a water-pouring port for pouring polishing water, the water-pouring port being disposed at a head portion, a discharge port for discharging the white rice, the discharge port being disposed at the head portion, and a rice-polishing roll for polishing rice by agitating together with the polishing water poured from the water-pouring port the white rice pressurized by transportation by the grain-lifting spiral, with the polisher discharging from the discharge port the white rice that has been polished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yamamoto-Seisakusho
    Inventors: Soichi Yamamoto, Masashi Shibata, Yoichi Adachi, Haruo Mori, Yuji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5390589
    Abstract: A pearling machine has an abrasive type pearling roll assembly which is formed by stacking a plurality of pearling rolls via intervening air blowing spacers. Stirring bars are secured to the outer periphery of the individual pearling rolls. Resistance bars are provided on the inner surface of a vertical polygonal bran removal cylinder. With a cooperative function of the stirring and resistance bars, grains supplied to a pearling chamber defined by the pearling roll assembly and the bran removal cylinder receive active spinning and revolution action. The grains thus receive uniform cutting action, and thus they are pearled uniformly. The vertical pearling machine permits optimum pearling of grains in dependence on the kind and character of the grains and is suited particularly to the pearling of tempered wheat with outer layer part having been made tough and inner layer part having been made soft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1995
    Assignee: Satake Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Satake, Takeshi Ishii, Yoshihiro Tokui
  • Patent number: 5076157
    Abstract: A green coffee bean polishing apparatus for removing silver skin from green coffee beans having the silver skins remaining after removal of parchment, comprises: a tubular member communicated at one end portion thereof with a supply port for green coffee beans to be polished and at the other end portion thereof with a discharge port for the polished green coffee beans, the tubular member defining a polishing chamber therein and having a large number of through holes formed in a wall surface thereof; a polishing roll rotatably disposed in the polishing chamber for serving to polish the green coffee beans in the polishing chamber so as to separate the silver skin from the outer surface of each green coffee bean; and an air passing means for passing air from the polishing chamber to the outside of the tubular member so as to discharge the silver skin separated from the green coffee beans through the through holes in the tubular member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1991
    Assignee: Satake Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshihiko Satake
  • Patent number: 5033371
    Abstract: A wheat flouring system comprises a polishing machine for polishing wheat grains, a humidifying machine for humidifying the grains, a conditioning machine for subjecting the grains to conditioning and a milling machine for milling the grains to produce a flour. The polishing machine, the humidifying machine, the conditioning machine and the milling machine are successively arranged from an upstream side to a downstream side as viewed in a direction of flow of the wheat grains. There is provided an agitating machine for agitating the grains humidified by the humidifying machine, thereby preventing the humidified grains from sticking together into lumps of the grains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1991
    Assignee: Satake Engineering Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Toshihiko Satake, Yukio Hosaka
  • Patent number: 4913045
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1990
    Assignee: Satake Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshihiko Satake
  • Patent number: 4643086
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1987
    Assignee: Din Engineering Limited
    Inventor: Spiros Christodoulou
  • Patent number: 4133257
    Abstract: A rice pearling apparatus with a humidifier includes a humidifying section comprising a humidifying line open into an essential part of one of pearling chambers in a series of pearling units, and perforated walls for debranning-pearling cylinders provided in the pearling units before and after the humidifying section. The quotient of the total perforated wall surface area of the frictional pearling chambers after the humidifying section divided by the product of the pearling ratio multiplied by the rise flow rate is not less than one time as much as the quotient of the total perforated wall surface area of the frictional pearling chambers before the humidifying section divided by the same product as above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1979
    Inventor: Toshihiko Satake