161 |
DEMUCILATING, CLEANING AND WASHING VERTICAL ASCENDING MULTISTAGE DOUBLE BASKET MACHINE FOR DESPULPED COFFEE |
US13578455 |
2011-02-10 |
US20120328751A1 |
2012-12-27 |
Elias Ariza; Alvaro Ardila Duarte |
The present invention is developed in the farming machinery field used during the wet stage of the coffee and refers to an apparatus that allows carrying out the processes of demucilaging, cleaning and washing of the previously depulped coffee seedcases using a low water and power consumption. Said apparatus comprises a mechanical feeding system for depulped beans, as well as a system for removing the mucilage and further washing of the beams that is constituted by a vertical rotor provided with metallic fingers that generate friction between the grains to be demucilaged, and also two metallic baskets, the first one is conical shaped—where a variable pressure zone between beans is generated, making possible a efficient detachment of the mucilage—, and the second one is cylindrical shaped one—zone of greater agitation between the beans and lower pressure between them and where a minimal amount of water is used for final washing—, which are built with square rods forming a continuous spiral which enables an easy evacuation of mucilage and other impurities through the horizontal slots due to the centrifugal force produced by the spin of a rotor. Finally, the present invention refers to a method for demucilaging, cleaning and washing depulped coffee by using of the above mentioned integral machine. |
162 |
PEELING MACHINE |
US12998042 |
2009-08-12 |
US20110162539A1 |
2011-07-07 |
Kiseok Youn |
The present invention provides a peeling machine comprising a container furnished with a space in which the peels are removed from produce, a rotating plate located inside said container and coupled to a blade, a peel exit extending from the bottom of said container to the exterior, a plurality of wing plates that are located between the bottom of said container and said rotating plate and placed at equal angles with respect to the center of said rotating plate, and that also rotate when said rotating plate rotates, and a motor that supplies power to said rotating plate. |
163 |
SYSTEM, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING HARVESTED WALNUTS |
US12130036 |
2008-05-30 |
US20090293741A1 |
2009-12-03 |
Alan Reiff; Cory Pierce; Allen Knowles |
A system and method for processing harvested walnuts that includes a walnut separator for separating walnuts without hulls from walnuts with hulls prior to a hulling process in order to increase productivity of the huller. A huller by-pass system conveys walnuts without hulls to a post-hulling processing. A walnut separator may include a screen having a selected screen size that permit walnuts without hulls to pass through the screen and prohibit walnuts with hulls and therefore a larger diameter, to pass through the screen. Alternately the walnut separator may include an optical sensor positioned to scan harvested walnuts. A controller connected to the optical sensor processes input from the optical sensor and selectively actuates a walnut selection or ejection device causing a walnut to by-pass a process. |
164 |
Pistachio huller |
US09681837 |
2001-06-14 |
US06422137B1 |
2002-07-23 |
Mohammad Nakhei-Nejad |
An apparatus for separating hulled and unhulled pistachios includes a rotating roller and a conveyor for depositing pistachios onto the roller. Rotation of the drum frictionally separates hulled and unhulled pistachios. |
165 |
Method for removing hulls from a nut mixture |
US642771 |
1996-05-06 |
US5762988A |
1998-06-09 |
Harold J. Schock; Thomas R. Stuecken |
An apparatus (10) and method for removing hulls (152) from a nut mixture (150) is described. The apparatus includes a gravity feed bin (12), a conveyor (28) and removal units (38). The removal units are comprised of a drum (40), a position roller (50), a beater (56) and a brush (64) around all of which extends a fibrous mat (96). The fibrous mat has looped or curved fibers (96C) and is formed as a continuous belt in the removal unit. To operate the apparatus, the mixture is fed from the gravity feed bin onto the conveyor belt (30) of the conveyor. As the mixture moves along a horizontal path of the conveyor, the mixture comes in contact with the fibrous mat rotating in the removal units. The looped fibers of the mat contact and engage the projections (152A) on the outer surface of the hulls and secure the hulls to the mat. As the mat continues to rotate through the unit the hulls secured to the mat are removed from the mixture on the conveyor. The smooth outer surface of the meats (154) are not engaged by the looped fibers of the mat and are not picked up by the mat. As the mat moves around the unit, the beater of the unit contacts the fabric backing (96A) of the mat and acts to violently shake the mat thus, shaking off the attached hulls attached to the outer surface (96B). |
166 |
Nut dehulling apparatus |
US112601 |
1993-08-26 |
US5431094A |
1995-07-11 |
Basil W. Savage, Sr. |
A nut dehulling apparatus for more effectively removing the green hull or shuck from pecans includes a housing having a housing inlet and a housing outlet. A rotatable scrubbing means and an endless conveyor belt are disposed in the housing. Further included is a means for rotating the scrubbing means and means for moving the endless conveyor belt. The endless conveyor belt includes a nut contact portion which, along with the rotatable scrubbing means, defines a nut passageway wherein the scrubbing means engage pecans. The nut passageway circumscribes approximately one-half the scrubbing means. The endless conveyor belt is located in the housing such that nuts deposited in the inlet are carried by the conveyor belt through the nut passageway into engagement with the scrubbing means. The separated nuts and hulls are then carried by the endless conveyor belt to the housing outlet. The apparatus also includes a vacuum source disposed in the housing. The vacuum source communicates with the lower surface of the nut contact portion of the endless conveyor belt and acts to pull that portion of the endless conveyor belt away from the scrubbing means. The vacuum source thus provides a means for reducing wear and tear on the endless conveyor belt and the scrubbing means. |
167 |
Sheller and grader |
US39538753 |
1953-12-01 |
US2796987A |
1957-06-25 |
MEYER LEO J |
|
168 |
Method of shelling nuts |
US9688449 |
1949-06-03 |
US2601421A |
1952-06-24 |
OTTO THANING |
|
169 |
Macerator for hulling pits or seeds |
US8086849 |
1949-03-11 |
US2569156A |
1951-09-25 |
DYBVIG HENRY N |
|
170 |
Process and apparatus for separating meat from shell fragments of cracked nuts |
US59593045 |
1945-05-26 |
US2464005A |
1949-03-08 |
TEAGUE FRANK A |
|
171 |
Means for separating mixed ingredients |
US30648339 |
1939-11-28 |
US2288814A |
1942-07-07 |
LINDSEY JAMES A |
|
172 |
Nut shelling machine |
US39928141 |
1941-06-23 |
US2279987A |
1942-04-14 |
SALVADOR GUERRA |
|
173 |
Process and apparatus for separating nut meats and shells |
US23160238 |
1938-09-24 |
US2216050A |
1940-09-24 |
ROMBERG FELIX B |
|
174 |
Means for shelling cotyledonous vegetables |
US44499830 |
1930-04-17 |
US1866949A |
1932-07-12 |
MELCHOR SALINAS |
|
175 |
Nut-shelling machine |
US5282725 |
1925-08-27 |
US1653413A |
1927-12-20 |
POWELL ERNEST H |
|
176 |
Process and apparatus for extracting and separating nut meats from their shells |
US74200324 |
1924-10-06 |
US1594702A |
1926-08-03 |
WILLIAMS DICK B |
|
177 |
Apparatus for separating the meat from shells of cracked nuts |
US60672522 |
1922-12-13 |
US1491956A |
1924-04-29 |
KIMBER LOYD G |
|
178 |
Centrifugal decorticator |
US47826221 |
1921-06-17 |
US1427457A |
1922-08-29 |
GILLESPIE SAMUEL H |
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179 |
AUTOMATIC PISTACHIO HULLER |
PCT/US2016000029 |
2016-04-01 |
WO2016164088A9 |
2017-05-04 |
VAUGHAN RIM RAY |
A method and apparatus for automatically hulling freshly harvested pistachios are provided. An array of rollers is provided, wherein an alternating pattern of rollers is utilized; wherein rollers having a gritty surface alternate with rollers having a novel, perforated surface. The novel, perforated surface includes hull impact edges formed in preferably diamond shaped perforations in an expanded metal sleeve. These edges fracture the pistachio hulls into larger fragments, avoiding fouling of the huller by sticky mastic carried by the inner surface of the freshly harvested pistachios. The huller is thereby capable of operating with little or no water. |
180 |
MODULAR SYSTEM FOR WET COFFEE PROCESSING WITHOUT WATER POLLUTION |
PCT/IB2013050898 |
2013-02-03 |
WO2013114341A3 |
2013-10-31 |
OLIVEROS T CARLOS E; SANZ URIBE JUAN RODRIGO; RAMIREZ G CESAR A; RAMOS G PAULA J; PENUELA M AIDA E |
The instant invention discloses a coffee washing machine wherein the coffee mucilage has previously been degraded by means of natural fermentation or by the addition of pectinolytic enzymes, wherein the degradation process minimizes the coffee's environmental impact together with the washing process. The method disclosed in the instant invention comprises: i) depulping coffee berries; ii) conveying coffee to a screening system in order to remove berries not depulped and the vast majority of the pulp; iii) conveying depulped berries to a tank, iv) storing the depulped berries in tanks allowing for mucilage degradation either through natural fermentation or by use of pectinolytic enzymes; v) conveying coffee from the fermentation tank towards the mechanical washer; vi) removing the degraded mucilage, allowing for washed coffee ready to initiate the drying phase. |