Title of Invention

"HORIZONTAL GRINDING TYPE RICE MILLING MACHINE."

Abstract In a horizontal grinding type rice milling machine, comprising a rice milling chamber having grinding rolls (1) fixed around a horizontal rotating shaft (10) and a cylindrical foreign matter removal screen (S) vertically dividable into two screen half parts (2, 2) and covering the grinding rolls concentrically thereto, wherein a plurality of stoppers (3) and flaps (4) formed of arc members curved along the periphery of the circular cross section of the cylindrical screen orthogonal to the axis thereof are fixedly installed on the inner peripheral surface of each of the screen half parts (2) obtained by dividing the foreign matter removal screen (S) into two parts so as to be alternately disposed in axial direction, a distance allowing rice to pass while restricting the passing amount of rice is assured between the flaps (4) and the outer periphery of the grinding rolls (1), and a distance between the stoppers (3) and the outer periphery of the grinding rolls (1) is set so as not to pass the rice, both screen half parts (2,2) of the foreign matter removal screen (S) are formed in the same structure and, when the screen half parts are reversed to each other so that both ends thereof in axial direction are replaced with each other, the stoppers (3) are replaced with the flaps (4), whereby at least one screen half part (2) can be installed reversely so that both ends thereof in axial direction can be replaced with each other, and the butted surfaces (J) of both screen half parts (2,2) can be displaced in circumferential direction of the rotating shaft (10)
Full Text SPECIFICATION
HORIZONTAL GRINDING-TYPE RICE MILLING MACHINE
Technical Field
The present invention relates to a horizontal grinding-type rice polishing (milling)
machine in which a feeding roller, a grinding roller and a discharging roller are circularly
and fixedly installed on a horizontal rotation axis from one end side to the other end side,
and the grinding roller is covered with a bran removing screen of concentric cylindrical
shape to form a rice polishing room, whereby unpolished rice supplied by the feeding
roller is polished in the rice polishing room and discharged from the discharging roller as
polished rice.
Background Art
A horizontal grinding-type rice polishing machine which is so configured that a feeding
roller, (a plurality of) grinding rollers and a discharging roller are circularly and fixedly
installed on a horizontal rotation axis from one end side to the other end side, and the
grinding roller is covered with a bran removing screen of concentric cylindrical shape to
form a rice polishing room, whereby unpolished rice supplied by the feeding roller is
polished in the rice polishing room and discharged from the discharging roller as polished
rice has been conventionally known in the art.
In the rice polishing machine of the above configuration, unpolished rice is delivered
from an unpolished rice hopper and fed into the rice polishing room through a spiral
groove formed on the outer periphery of the feeding roller. In the rice polishing room,
rice being polished or rice after polished (hereinafter, "rice" in the rice polishing room
refers to the rice in mixed state of unpolished rice, rice being polished and rice after
polished) is pushed out to the discharging roller as a result of being pushed by the
unpolished rice which is successively fed by the feeding roller, and finally pushed into a
polished rice outlet from the discharging roller.
It is requested that polishing degree of polished rice is adjusted in accordance with the
intended polishing degree, and in accordance with the type of the rice, and the polishing
degree can be adjusted by changing the residence time, the loading amount and the
passage in the rice polishing room.
As a means for appropriately setting the residence time and loading amount in the rice
polishing room, a stopper for restricting passage by preventing flow of the rice or a flap
for controlling the flow rate is conventionally provided along the inner peripheral surface
of the bran removing screen. The stopper is fixedly provided on the inner peripheral
surface of the bran removing screen so as to make the gap with respect to the grinding
roller extremely small thereby preventing the rice from flowing and guiding the rice to the
region where a stopper is not provided, and thus restricting the passage. The flap
narrows the gap with respect to the grinding roller to some degree, thereby controlling the
flow rate of the rice in the gap. That is, according to the conventional measure, the
loading amount and the flow rate (residence time) of the rice in the rice polishing room
are adjusted by making the flap variable or enabling manual changing of its angle by an
operator.
However, such a variable-type flap applied along the circumferential direction of the
bran removing screen cannot be so long. That is, such a flap cannot be effective along
the substantially entire circumference of the bran removing screen, so that there is a
limitation in equalizing distribution of rice in the rice polishing room. This made the
structure of the bran removing screen complicated.
Also, though a structure in which a fixed-type flap is fixedly provided on the inner
peripheral surface of the bran removing screen in the same manner as the stopper is also
adopted in combination with the variable flap, since the bran removing screen itself is
essentially fixedly provided and cannot be modulated in accordance with the type of the
rice or the intended polishing degree, the position of the fixed-type flap is also fixed and
there is a case that a desired polishing degree cannot be achieved.
As another means for adjusting the polishing degree, a structure of adjusting free
opening of an outlet of polished rice is known. That is, at an outlet of polished rice, a
shutter having a pushing force against the flow direction of polished rice is provided, and
free opening of the shutter is adjusted. The narrower the free opening, the higher the
polishing degree becomes because of increase of the residence time in the rice polishing
room.
However, if the free opening is controlled as described above, the polishing efficiency
is deteriorated on the other hand. That is, as a result of decreasing the discharge amount
of the polished rice per unit time, longer time is required for obtaining the intended
amount of polished rice.
Yet another problem associated with the conventional horizontal grinding-type rice
polishing machine is that since the spiral groove of the feeding roller is formed as one
groove from the initial end surface to the terminal end surface of the roller, the pressure of
the unpolished rice to be discharged into the rice polishing room from the outlet end of
the groove concentrates at one point under rotation, and rotation of the pressure
concentrated point may cause vibration of axial center of the rotation axis. Furthermore,
in association with that the degree of pressure application on the rice polishing room in
one rotation varies depending on arrangement of the stopper and flap provided nearest to
the inlet in the rice polishing room and opposing to the terminal end surface of the feeding
roller, vibration occurs in the grinding roller, which results in unequal rice polishing or
adversely affects on the durability of parts.
Furthermore, in assembling the grinding roller and discharging roller on the rotation
axis, the assembly is proceeded in the manner that first the feeding roller is assembled on
the rotation axis while cantilevering the inlet end side of the rotation axis, and thereafter
the center hole of each grinding roller is passed on the rotation axis to be slid to a
predetermined position in sequence. However, as the grinding rollers are assembled to
the rotation axis, the part of the outlet side end is downwardly inclined because of the
weight of the grinding rollers. This causes the assembled grinding rollers to slide toward
the outlet side end and come off, and also causes a trouble in assembling additional
grinding roller to a predetermined position.
Disclosure of Invention
The present invention relates to a horizontal grinding-type rice polishing machine
which is so configured that a feeding roller, a grinding roller and a discharging roller are
circularly and fixedly installed on a horizontal rotation axis from one end side to the other
end side, and the grinding roller is covered with a concentric cylindrical bran removing
screen to form a rice polishing room, whereby unpolished rice supplied by the feeding
roller is polished in the rice polishing room and discharged from the discharging roller,
and the first object of the invention is to configure adjusting members for adjusting
loading amount and residence time of rice in the rice polishing room that is attached
inside the bran removing screen with simple and effective structures.
In order to achieve this object, according to the present invention, a stopper or a flap is
fixedly provided on an inner peripheral surface of each of the two-part split screen halves
of the bran removing screen, the stopper or the flap 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, so that between the flap and the outer periphery of the
grinding roller, a distance that allows passing of rice while restricting passing amount is
secured, and a distance between the stopper and the outer periphery of the grinding roller
prevents the rice from flowing.
Therefore, it becomes possible to achieve sufficient loading of unpolished rice and
residence time in the rice polishing space by means of a fixed-type stopper and flap with
simple structure without providing a movable flap inside the bran removing screen as is
the conventional case.
Also, position of a joint surface between the screen halves of the bran removing screen
is variable in the circumferential direction about the rotation axis, whereby the position of
the stopper or flap attached to each screen half is made changeable in the circumferential
direction about the rotation axis. For example, by making it possible to arrange the joint
surface in horizontal position and in vertical position, it is possible to prepare two types of
bran removing screens, that is, the bran removing screen configured by jointing the screen
halves one on another, and the bran removing screen configured by jointing the screen
halves side to side. As a result of this, the flow passage of rice in the rice polishing
room is changed with regard to the circumferential direction of the bran removing screen,
and moreover, relative positions of the stopper and the flap with respect to the unpolished
rice outlet in the upstream side feeding roller and the discharging roller and polished rice
outlet on the downstream side of the rice polishing room are changed in the
circumferential direction about the rotation axis. Therefore, delivery of rice in the rice
polishing room and introduction of unpolished rice to the rice polishing room and
discharge of polished rice from the rice polishing room can be optimized, resulting that
the rice polishing performance is improved.
In the case where it is desired to change the polishing degree in accordance with the
type or property of the unpolished rice, by preparing several types of screen halves having
different attaching positions and shapes (thickness and the like) of the stopper and flap
prepared, and forming the bran removing screen while selecting and combining arbitrary
two types among these types, it is possible to comply with various types and properties of
unpolished rice.
Furthermore, the screen halves of the bran removing screen have the same structure,
and are so configured that when the respective ends in the axial direction are inverted, the
stopper and the flap are inverted, and in the rice polishing machine, at least one screen
half can be arranged so that the respective ends in the axial direction are inverted.
As described above, it is possible to configure two types of bran removing screens each
having different setting of loading amount and residence time in accordance with the type
or the like of unpolished rice by preparing two screen halves having the same structure, so
that a horizontal grinding-type rice polishing machine having many conforming variations
can be provided with low cost.
In each of the screen halves having the same structure, the total of even number of the
stopper and the flap are attached so that they align alternately in the axial direction.
For example, assumption is made for the case that the bran removing screen is formed
by jointing the screen halves one on the other, the upper screen half is made invertible as
described above, and as for the lower screen half, the member nearest to the inlet side end
is a stopper and the member nearest to the outlet side end is a flap.
When the member nearest to the inlet side end is a flap and the member nearest to the
outlet side end is a stopper, in the upper screen half, all of combinations of stopper or flap
arranged opposing to each other in the vertical direction while interposing each grinding
roller therebetween are combination of stopper and flap. Incidentally, the vertical
position of the flap and the stopper is transposed sequentially from the inlet side end. In
this bran removing screen, most of rice blocked by each stopper flows to the outlet side
via each flap.
When the upper screen half is inverted, and the member nearest to the inlet side end is
a stopper and the member nearest to the outlet side end is a flap, combinations of stopper
or flap opposing to each other while interposing each grinding roller in the bran removing
screen are such that combination of upper stopper and lower stopper and combination of
upper flap and lower flap are alternately repeated in sequence from the inlet side end.
Since the part where the stoppers are arranged on the upper and lower sides is configured,
the flow passage of rice is extremely narrowed. The bran removing screen may be
configured as described above when it is required to set the loading amount of rice and
residence time in the rice polishing room higher.
The second object of the invention is to provide a structure capable of smoothly
discharging polished rice in accordance with closing degree of outlet when a measure of
changing loading amount and residence time of rice in the rice polishing room by
changing free opening (closing degree of outlet) is adopted.
For achieving this object, a primary outlet having a shutter of which free opening is
adjustable and a secondary outlet not having the shutter are provided, and by adjusting the
free opening of the shutter, the polished rice is discharged from the primary outlet under
low polishing degree condition, from the secondary outlet under high polishing degree
condition and from the primary outlet and the secondary outlet under intermediate
polishing degree condition.
Therefore, by adjusting residence time and loading amount of rice in the rice polishing
room by adjustment of free opening of the shutter, it is possible to smoothly discharge rice
of high polishing degree from the secondary outlet even when the closing degree is
increased, while having the structure of changing the polishing degree. On the other
hand, when it is requested to obtain rice of low polishing degree, the opening degree of
the shutter is increase, thereby discharging such rice immediately from the primary outlet.
In such a configuration, by proving the secondary outlet at higher position than the
primary outlet, it is possible to discharge rice of high polishing degree from the secondary
outlet in responding to increase of level of the rice that is not discharged from the primary
outlet and hence filled in the rice polishing room when the closing degree of the shutter is
increased.
Furthermore, when the secondary outlet for high polishing degree is provided in
duplicate, it is possible to further increase the polishing degree by selectively closing one
of the outlet and elongating the residence time in the rice polishing room, and it is
possible to increase polishing efficiency by using both of the outlets.
Furthermore, by providing the two secondary outlets are provided in the form of pair
disposed left and right when viewed in the direction of the rotation axis, it is possible to
guide the rice discharged from the secondary outlets to the polished rice discharging
trough while making the rice hinder the rotation axis and drop smoothly and equally
leftward and rightward without retention.
Furthermore, the third object of the present invention is, in a horizontal grinding-type
rice polishing machine having a structure that unpolished rice is drawn into a spiral
groove formed on the circumference of the feeding roller from an unpolished rice hopper;
unpolished rice is supplied inside the rice polishing room from an outlet end of the spiral
groove by means of rotation of the feeding roller, to eliminate deviation of supply of
unpolished rice from the feeding roller to the rice polishing room, thereby preventing
occurrence of vibration of the rotation axis.
In order to achieve this object, according to the present invention, a parr of spiral
grooves of the feeding roller is formed with a phase shift of 180° in the circumferential
direction of the feeding roller. As a result of this, it is possible to feed the unpolished
rice in well-dispersed condition from the feeding roller to the rice polishing room, so that
the rotation axis is prevented from vibrating and vibration does not occur during rotation
of the grinding roller, with the result that uniform rice polishing is secured and durability
of parts is improved.
Furthermore, the fourth object of the present invention is to provide a structure for
supporting the rotation axis in horizontal position so that when the grinding roller and the
discharging roller are assembled on the rotation axis, the cantilevered rotation axis will
not be inclined due to weight of the fitted grinding rollers and the like.
In order to achieve this object, according to the present invention, a case for
accommodating the feeding roller has a lifter latching block, and the rotation axis is
supported in horizontal position by inserting the lifter latching block between the feeding
roller that has been attached on the rotation axis and the bearing support which cantilevers
the rotation axis in installing the grinding roller and the discharging roller on the rotation
axis.
As a result of this, the rotation axis will not be inclined until the rotation axis is inserted
into each of the grinding rollers and discharging roller and each of the grinding rollers and
discharging roller are slid to predetermined positions on the rotation axis to be fitted
therewith, so that the grinding rollers having fitted with the axis will not go off, and hence
assembling operation of the grinding rollers and discharging roller on the rotation axis can
be conducted readily and smoothly.
Furthermore, the bearing support is formed with a recess portion nearest the position
where the lifter latching block is to be positioned for horizontally supporting the rotation
axis, and the lifter latching block not being used is fitted in the recess portion. That is,
during when it lifting and supporting of the rotation axis is not required, the block is
placed on the bearing support at the position where the block will not prevent rotation of
rotation axis and feeding roller, in the case of detaching the grinding roller or discharging
roller from the rotation axis because of maintenance and the like, the detaching operation
can be smoothly conducted because the block is placed near the setting position.
The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will
become more apparent from the following detailed description based on the attached
drawings.
Brief Description of Drawings/Figures
Fig. 1 is a general side elevation view of a horizontal grinding-type rice polishing
machine according to the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a front view of the same showing the polished rice outlet side.
Fig. 3 is a rear view of the same showing the unpolished rice inlet side.
Fig. 4 is a sectional front view of the same showing a middle part of the fore-and-aft
direction of a rice polishing unit, wherein a joint surface J of screen halves 2 constituting
a bran removing screen S is the vertical surface.
Fig. 5 is a partial side elevation view showing the part where a lifter latching block 8 is
disposed in the lower part of a feeding roller case 11 of the horizontal grinding-type rice
polishing machine.
Fig. 6 is a section view taken in the direction of the arrows along the line VI-VI in Fig.
5.
Fig. 7 is a front view of a bran removing screen S which is so configured that the joint
surface J of the screen halves 2 is the horizontal surface, in which a stopper 3 and a flap 4
are attached to each of the upper and the lower screen halves 2U and 2L.
Fig. 8 is a partial perspective view of a screen half 2 in which a stopper 3 and a flap 4
are alternately attached on its inner peripheral surface.
Fig. 9 is a perspective view showing the state that two screen halves 2 are overlapped
with each other.
Fig. 10 is a schematic side elevation view of a horizontal grinding- type rice polishing
machine using a bran removing screen S which is configured by jointing a screen upper
half 2U and a screen lower half 2L via a horizontal joint surface J, the screen upper halves
2U and 2L being two screen halves 2 of the same structure having a stopper 3 and a flap 4
alternately attached on its inner peripheral surface.
Fig. 11 (a) is a section view taken in the direction of the arrows along the line a-a in Fig.
10; Fig. ll(b) is a section view taken in the direction of the arrows along the line b-b in
Fig. 10; Fig. ll(c) is a section view taken in the direction of the arrows along the line c-c
in Fig. 10; and Fig. ll(d) is a section view taken in the direction of the arrows along the
line d-d in Fig. 10.
Fig. 12 is a schematic side elevation view of a horizontal grinding-type rice polishing
machine in the case where the bran removing screen A is configured so that the screen
upper half 2U shown in Fig. 10 is inverted in the fore-and-aft direction.
Fig. 13(a) is a section view taken in the direction of the arrows along the line a-a in Fig.
12; Fig. 13(b) is a section view taken in the direction of the arrows along the line b-b in
Fig. 12; Fig. 13(c) is a section view taken in the direction of the arrows along the line c-c
in Fig. 12; and Fig. 13(d) is a section view taken in the direction of the arrows along the
line d-d in Fig. 12.
Fig. 14 is a perspective view of the feeding roller 5 having two unpolished rice feeding
spiral grooves 5a and 5b.
Fig. 15 is a partial perspective view showing an outlet side surface of the horizontal
grinding-type rice polishing machine according to the present invention in the state that
the lower polished rice outlet 6a is opened by swiveling the adjusting shutter 18 upward.
Fig. 16 is a partial side elevation view of the horizontal grinding-type rice polishing
machine according to the present invention showing the position and structure of the
polished rice outlets 6a and 6b and the adjusting shutter 18.
Fig. 17 is a plan view of the part of the polished rice outlet trough 46 of the horizontal
grinding-type rice polishing machine.
Best Mode for Carrying Out the Invention
In the following, general configuration of the horizontal grinding-type rice polishing
machine according to the present invention will be explained with reference to Figs. 1 to
4.
On a lower supporting frame 20, an inlet side supporting panel (front panel) 12 and an
outlet side supporting panel (rear panel) 13 are fixedly provided in standing manner while
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leaving a fore-and-aft span therebetween, and a cylindrical rice polishing unit cover 22 is
interposed between the inlet side supporting panel 12 and the outlet side supporting panel
13. Hereinafter, unless otherwise specified, the present machine will be explained
provided that the side of the outlet side supporting panel 13 (left side in Fig. 1) is the front
side and the side of the inlet side supporting panel 12 (right side in Fig. 1) is rear side.
A feeding roller case 11 is fixedly provided on the back of the inlet side supporting
panel 12, and an unpolished rice hopper 14 for supplying a rice polishing unit with
unpolished rice is fixedly provided on the feeding roller case 11. Inside the unpolished
rice hopper 14, an opening/closing shutter 29 is horizontally fitted so as to be able to
advance and retract in the fore-and-aft direction, and on the lower side of the downstream
side of the opening/closing shutter 29, a fine-adjusting shutter 28 is provided so as to be
able to swivel in the fore-and-aft direction.
The opening/closing shutter 29 and the fine-adjusting shutter 28 are connected to an
unpolished rice supply amount adjusting dial 17 mounted on the outlet side supporting
panel 13 via an adjusting connecting rod 26 and an adjusting connecting rod 27,
respectively. Also, the adjusting connecting rods 26 and 27 pass through the rice
polishing unit cover 22. An operator operates the unpolished rice supply amount
adjusting dial 17 while checking the amount or the speed of the polished rice discharged
from polished rice outlets 6a and 6b formed in a polished rice outlet member 6 which is
fixedly provided on the outlet side supporting panel 13 and will be described later,
thereby causing the adjusting connecting rod 26 or 27 to advance or retract in the
fore-and-aft direction to open/close the opening/closing shutter 29 or to adjust the opening
of the fine-adjusting shutter 28, thus achieving adjustment of the flow amount of
unpolished from the unpolished rice hopper 14.
A grinding roller shaft 10 which is a rotation axis is horizontally journaled between the
inlet side supporting panel 12 and the outlet side supporting panel 13 while being covered
with the rice polishing unit cover 22. In the working example of Fig. 1, a feeding roller
5, six grinding rollers 1, a discharging roller 9 and an end portion clamping screw 35 are
fitted on the grinding roller shaft 10.
The feeding roller 5 is arranged in the feeding roller case 11, and in the rice polishing
unit cover 22, the six grinding roller 1, the discharging roller 9 and the end portion
claming screw 35 are arranged in this order toward the outlet side supporting panel 13.
Furthermore, the six grinding rollers 1 and the discharging roller 9 are covered with a
bran removing screen S cylindrically interposed between the inlet side supporting panel
12 and the outlet side supporting panel 13 within the rice polishing unit cover 22. In this
way, the rice polishing unit is formed between the inlet side supporting panel 12 and the
outlet side supporting panel 13.
Arrangement of the grinding roller shaft 10, and procedure of assembling the feeding
roller 5, the grinding rollers 1, the discharging roller 9 and the end portion clamping
screw 35 on the grinding roller shaft 10 will be explained with the use of Figs. 1, 5, 6 and
the like.
First, the inlet side supporting panel 12 and the outlet side supporting panel 13 are
fixedly provided on the lower supporting frame 20 in standing manner, and the feeding
roller case 11 is fixedly provided on the inlet side supporting panel 12 as described above,
and then a bearing cover 34 for wrapping a bearing 36 is fixedly provided on the outside
end (rear end) of the feeding roller case 11.
From this state, the grinding roller shaft 10 is inserted into axial holes of the bearing 36
and the bearing cover 34 attached to the feeding roller case 11 from front side via a
polished rice discharging opening 13a of the outlet side supporting panel 13 (see Figs. 1,
16 and 17), and a step of the grinding roller shaft 10 is brought into contact with the
bearing 36.
The grinding roller shaft 10 thus positioned in the axial direction protrudes behind the
bearing 36, that is, protrudes on the opposite side to the polished rice discharging side,
and an input pulley 23 for receiving engine power and a bran removing fan driving pulley
24 for driving a bran removing fan 41 as will be described later are circularly installed
and fixed to this protruded portion as weights. Under the condition that the rear end part
of the grinding roller shaft 10 is weighed, the constituents of the rice polishing unit as
described above are sequentially slid from the front end part of the polished rice outlet
side along the grinding roller shaft 10 and latched after being positioned.
Among the constituents of the rice polishing unit to be assembled on the grinding roller
shaft 10, first, the grinding roller shaft 10 is penetrated in the center hole of the feeding
roller 5, the feeding roller 5 is slid backward along the grinding roller shaft 10, and in the
state of being in contact with the step provided in the grinding roller shaft 10, the feeding
roller 5 is latched to the grinding roller shaft 10 via a key so as to disable relative rotation.
In the condition that the feeding roller 5 is fitted to the grinding roller shaft 10 in the
feeding roller case 11, the remainder of the constituents of the rice polishing unit, that is,
the six grinding rollers 1, the one discharging roller 9 are fitted from the polished rice
outlet side. In this operation, if the grinding roller shaft 10 is inclined frontward and
downward because of the weight of the grinding rollers 1 sequentially assembled, it is no
longer possible to easily slide the grinding rollers 1 and the discharging roller 9 having
passed through the grinding roller shaft 10 to the respective predetermined positions, and
even if such rollers are latched by means of keys, they will come off again. In view of
this, as shown by the imaginary lines in Figs. 1 and 5, a lifter latching block 8 is
interposed between the lower end of the feeding roller 5 and the bottom surface of the
roller case 11, thereby supporting the grinding roller shaft 10 together with the feeding
roller 5 from below.
As shown in Fig. 6, the lifter latching block 8 is arranged in a vertically penetrating
hole 15 provide in the bottom portion of the feeding roller case 11 in the normal condition,
and fixed by screw to a closing rid 16 disposed beneath the same by means of a
hold-functioning bolt with nut 8a. Furthermore, the closing rid 16 is clamped to the
feeding roller case 11 by means of a bolt 51. In this way in the case where it is not
necessary to interpose the lifter latching block 8 under the feeding roller 5, such as during
normal rice polishing operation, the lifter latching block 8 is arranged in the hole 15 while
being attached inside the closing rid 16 to form a part of the feeding roller case 11.
And, when attaching/detaching the grinding rollers 1 to/from the grinding roller shaft
10, the lifter latching block 8 is separated from the closing rid 16 by removing the nut
from the hold-functioning bolt 8a, and as shown by the imaginary line in Fig. 5, the lifter
latching block 8 is inserted into an inlet bearing support 11 and moved, to be inserted
between the bottom surface of the feeding roller 5 and the inner surface of the feeding
roller case 11. At this time, the operator can easily move the lifter latching block 8 while
holding the hold-functioning bolt 8a, and since the hold-functioning bolt 8a exists in the
hole 15, the lifter latching block 8 does not exceedingly enters the interior.
As described above, by supporting the feeding roller 5 by interposing the lifter latching
block 8 between the feeding roller 5 and the feeding roller case 11, it is possible to hold
the grinding roller shaft 10 in substantially horizontal position, and it is possible to easily
and reliably slide each grinding roller 1 and the discharging roller 9 to the respective
predetermined positions on the grinding roller shaft 10 and latched with keys until the last
end portion clamping screw 35 is fitted on the grinding roller shaft 10.
Each grinding roller 1 having been slid to a predetermined position on the grinding
roller shaft 10 is latched so as to disable rotation relative to the grinding roller shaft 10,
and after finishing fitting of all of the grinding rollers 1, the discharging roller 9 is fitted
on the grinding roller shaft 10. Then, in this state, the feeding roller 5, the grinding
rollers 1, the discharging roller 9 are slid toward the polished rice outlet side and fixed by
clamping so as not to come off the grinding roller shaft 10 by screwing the end clamping
screw 35 on the grinding roller shaft 10. Furthermore, the polished rice outlet member 6
is attached and fixed to the outlet side supporting panel 13 while inserting the grinding
roller shaft 10 in an axial hole 6c of the polished rice outlet member 6, and a bearing
cover 33 is fixedly provided on the polished rice outlet member 6 while fitting the front
end portion of the grinding roller shaft 10 in an axial hole of the bearing cover 33 which
wraps a bearing 37. In this way, assembly of constituents of the rice polishing unit to be
assemble to the grinding roller shaft 10 completes.
After that, two screen halves 2 of half-split cylindrical shape as shown in Figs. 7 and 8
are arranged around the grinding roller 1, and joint flanges 2a which are formed at the
outer peripheral ends of the screen halves 2 so as to parallel to the axial center are jointed
and clamped with each other, thereby forming a single cylindrical bran removing screen as shown in Figs. 4, 9 and the like. Furthermore, as shown in Fig. 1, on an inlet side
opening end and an outlet side opening end of the bran removing screen S, the inlet side
supporting panel 12 and the outlet side supporting panel 13 are fixed respectively,
whereby the bran removing screen S is interposed between the supporting panels 12 and
13 provided in the fore-and-aft direction. In this way, an approximately circular rice
polishing unit is formed between the cylindrical bran removing screen S and the grinding
rollers 1.
In the present rice polishing machine, as shown in Figs. 9,10 and the like, the position
where the joint flanges 2a of the respective screen halves 2 are jointed with each other
may be such that the screen halves 2 are arranged one on the other while interposing a
horizontal joint surface J therebetween, or may be such that, as shown in Fig. 4, the joint
surface J is vertically arranged and the screen halves 2 are arranged on the left and right
sides of the joint surface J. As described above, by rotationally moving the position of
the screen halves 2 (position of the joint flanges 2a) about the grinding roller shaft 10, it is
possible to change the positions of a stopper 3 and a flap 4 fixedly provided on the bran
removing screen S as will be described later about the grinding roller shaft 10. Details
of which will be described later.
Furthermore, after interposing the above-described adjusting connecting rods 26 and 27
between inlet side supporting panel 12 and the outlet side supporting panel 13 above the
bran removing screen S, the rice polishing unit cover 22 is interposed between the inlet
side supporting panel 12 and the outlet side supporting panel 13 so as to cover the bran
removing screen S and the adjusting connecting rods 26 and 27, whereby assembling of
the rice polishing unit is almost completed.
As shown in Fig. 1, inside the lower supporting frame 20 is provided a funnel-shape
bran collecting trough 21. During rice polishing operation, bran drops from the rice
polishing room formed between the grinding rollers 1 and the bran removing screen S via
a slit 2b of the bran removing screen S (see Fig. 7 and the like) to be collected in the bran
collecting trough 21.
Also, in the rear part of the feeding roller case 11, a bran removing air duct lla is
formed, under which a bran removing fan case 40 wrapping the bran removing fan 41 is
provided, and a blowing duct opening directed upwardly of the bran removing fan case 40
is jointed with the lower end inlet of the bran removing air duct lla. With such a
configuration, the air generated by the bran removing fan 41 is introduced into the hollow
feeding roller 5 within the feeding roller case 11 via the bran removing air duct lla, and
further introduced into the grinding roller 1 along the grinding roller shaft 10.
Furthermore, a grinding stone la provided on the outer periphery of each grinding roller 1
is appropriately formed with blow passage Ib communicating inside and outside the
grinding roller 1 as a notch as shown in Figs. 1, 4 and the like, and the air from the bran
removing fan 41 having been introduced into the grinding roller 1 is blown into the rice
polishing room as bran removing air from inside the grinding roller 1, thereby discharged
the bran into the bran collecting trough 21 via the slit 2b of the bran removing screen S
from the rice polishing room.
As shown in Figs. 1 and 3, power is transmitted from the fan driving pulley 24 fixedly
provided on the grinding roller shaft 10 to the fan input pulley 25 attached to the bran
removing fan 41 via a belt 43, whereby the bran removing fan 41 is rotationally driven.
For the purpose of adjusting the tension of the belt 43, a tension pulley 42 is attached on
the rear surface of the upper part of the bran removing fan case 40 so as to allow position
change in the left-and-light direction.
Next, arrangement and configuration of the stopper 3 and the flap 4 attached on the
inner peripheral surface of the bran removing screen S shown in Figs. 7 to 11 will be
explained.
The bran removing screen S can be split longitudinally into the two screen halves 2 of
half-split cylindrical shape according to the aforementioned configuration. On the inner
peripheral surface of each screen half 2, as shown in Figs. 7, 8 and the like, a plurality of
stoppers 3 and flaps 4 are fixedly provided in parallel by spot welding in the
circumferential direction thereof (in the direction of circular arc of the circular cross
section perpendicular to the grinding roller shaft 10). Other possibility is to configure
the screen half 2 to which only the stoppers 3 are attached or the screen half 2 to which
only the flaps 4 are attached.
The flap 4 is a flat and slim plate member, and the stopper 3 is a slim plate member
having an L-shaped cross section which is bent in a circular arc shape along the
circumferential direction of the cross section of each screen half 2.
The distance between the inner peripheral surface of the bran removing screen S and
the outer peripheral surface of the grinding roller 1 is about 8.5 mm. The thickness of
the flap 4 is about 1.6 mm, and hence a gap of about 6.9 mm arises between the flap 4 and
the inner peripheral surface of the bran removing screen S, which becomes resistance for
rice flowing in the rice polishing room. That is, the flap 4 restricts flow amount of the
rice, though it does not have a blocking power that completely blocks flow of the rice.
In this way, it is possible to adjust the passing time and the residence time of the rice in
the rice polishing room.
On the other hand, the thickness of the stopper 3 is about 7.5 mm, and hence a gap of
only about 1 mm thick arises with respect to the inner peripheral surface of the bran
removing screen S. Such a small gap prevents almost all of the rice from passing
therethrough, so that the rice cannot move from the inlet side to the outlet side unless it
keeps away from the stopper 3 in the rice polishing room. That is, the stopper 3 has a
function of changing the passage of the rice.
Both the stopper 3 and the flap 4 provide a certain distance between the respective ends
and the respective joint flanges 2a of the screen halves 2 in their longitudinal direction,
thereby keeping a gap of about 8.5 mm thick for allowing passage of the rice as described
above. Referring to Fig. 9, the distance between each end of the stopper 3 and the flange
2a is set to be a half of G2 (for example, about 85 mm), and the distance between each
end of the flap 4 and the flange 2a is set to be a half of G3 (for example, about 60 mm).
As for the stopper 3 and the flap 4 within the bran removing screen S, various
arrangements can be considered. First, in the present working example, as described
above, the position of each of the screen halves 2 to be jointed with each other can be
changed so that they surround the grinding roller shaft 10, and by changing the position as
described above, it is possible to change the arrangement position of the stopper 3 and the
flap 4 into the circumferential direction of the cross section perpendicular to the grinding
roller shaft 10. For example, in Fig. 9, while the screen halves 2 are arranged one on the
other and jointed with each other via the horizontal joint surface J, it is also possible to
arrange the screen halves 2 on the left and right sides and joint them via the vertical joint
surface J in the position rotated by 90° about the grinding roller shaft 10 as shown in Fig.
4, or to convert the screen halves 2 by rotation of 180°.
Since position of the stopper 3 and the flap 4 attached to each screen half 2 can be
changed in the circumferential direction of the bran removing screen S, relative positions
of the stopper 3 and the flap 4 with respect to the outlet ends of feeding spiral grooves 50a
and 50b formed on the outer periphery of the feeding roller 5 on the upstream side of the
rice polishing room as will be described later, the discharging roller 9, and accordingly the
polished rice outlets 6a and 6b as will be described later are changed, so that it is possible
to preferably adjust the conditions in introducing unpolished rice into the rice polishing
room and in discharge polished rice from the polishing room.
Also various options can be expected as for arrangement of the stopper 3 and the flap 4
in each screen half 2, and various options can be expected as for combination of screen
halves 2 having different configuration of the stopper 3 and flap 4.
As for each screen half 2, as shown in Figs. 7 and 8, it is expected that two stoppers 3
and two flaps 4 are arranged alternately. Each of the stopper 3 and the flap 4 is arranged
around the outer periphery of each, among the six grinding rollers 1 on the grinding roller
shaft 10, of the middle four grinding rollers 1A, IB, 1C and ID other than two grinding
rollers positioned on either side, as shown in Figs. 10,12 and the like.
Figs. 9 to 13 show the bran removing screens S which is formed by arranging the
screen halves 2 of the same structure one on the other to render them a screen upper half
2U and a screen lower half 2L, respectively, and jointing them with each other, wherein
the screen upper half 2U is inverted with regard to the fore-and-aft direction (the inlet end
and the outlet end are inverted) between the bran removing screen S shown in Figs. 10
and ll(a)-(d) and the bran removing screen S shown in Fig. 12 and Figs. 13(a)-(d). As a
consequence, the sequence in the grinding roller shaft 10 direction of the stopper 3 and
the flap 4 arranged along the upper half outer periphery of each of the middle four
grinding rollers 1 is also inverted between the screen upper halves 2U of the respective
working examples.
In the case of the working example shown in Fig. 10 and Figs. ll(a)-(d), among the
grinding rollers 1A, IB, 1C and ID, as for two alternate grinding rollers 1A and 1C, the
upper half is surrounded by the flap 4 and the lower half is surrounded by the stopper 3 as
shown in Figs. ll(a) and (c), and as for the remaining two alternate grinding rollers IB
and ID, the upper half is surrounded by the stopper 3 and the lower half is surrounded by
the flap 4 as shown in Figs. ll(b) and ll(d). In other words, for any of the middle four
grinding rollers 1A, IB, 1C and ID, either one of the upper half and the lower half is
surrounded by the stopper 3 and the other the upper half and the lower half is surrounded
by the flap 4.
To the contrary, in the cases of the wording example shown in Fig. 12 and Figs.
13(a)-(d), among the middle four grinding rollers 1, as for two alternate grinding rollers,
both of the upper half and the lower half are surrounded by the stopper 3 as shown in Figs.
13(a) and (c), and as for the remaining two alternate grinding rollers, both of the upper
half and the lower half are surrounded by the flap 4 as shown in Figs. 13(b) and (d).
If comparison is made for the fluidity of rice between these working examples, in the
case where the bran removing screen S shown in Figs. 12 and 13 are used, the rice
existing on the upstream side of the pair of stoppers 3 vertically arranged in the rice
polishing room can move downstream only via a very small gap of length G2 formed
between the pair of stoppers 3 vertically formed on the left and right sides of the objective
grinding rollers 1A and 1C. For the remaining two grinding rollers IB and ID, the flaps
4 arranged in the vertical direction form thin gaps on the top and bottom and gaps having
a regular thickness of G3 on the left and right sides of each grinding roller 1.
To the contrary, in the case where the bran removing screen S shown in Fig. 10 and Fig.
11, the stopper 3 is arranged on the outer periphery of each of the four middle grinding
rollers 1 so that the rice is prevented from flowing from the inlet side to the outlet side in
the rice polishing room, however, the rice flows from the inlet side to the outlet side via a
thinned gap (hereinafter, referred to as "thin gap") between the flap 4 provided opposite to
the stopper 3 and the grinding roller 1, and via gaps having a regular thickness of Gl on
the left and right sides formed between the respective stopper 3 and flap 4 on the left and
right sides of each grinding roller 1. Incidentally, the position of the thin gap is inverted
in vertical direction for every one of the four middle grinding rollers 1, thereby preventing
the communication of rice directed from the inlet side to the outlet side of the rice
polishing room from deviating to either one of the upper side and lower side.
As described above, since the bran removing screen S shown in Figs. 12 and 13 has
higher effect of preventing flowing of rice by means of the stopper 3 than the bran
removing screen S shown in Figs. 10 and 11, and hence it can elongate the loading time
and the residence time of the rice in the rice polishing room, the polishing degree is
improved.
Which one is to be used may be determined in accordance with the practical request,
however, even such a situation occurs that one embodiment of the bran removing screens
S is desired, though the other embodiment of the bran removing screens S has been
prepared, it is possible to immediately respond to such a situation by reassembling the
screen S while inverting the screen upper half 2U with regard to the fore-and-aft direction
(inverting the inlet end and the outlet end) from the both screen halves 2U and 2L.
Also, it is possible to invert the screen lower half 2L with regard to the fore-and-aft
direction in place of the screen upper half 2U.
Alternatively, it is also possible that one of the two screen halves 2 has the stopper 3
and the flap 4 as shown in Figs. 7 and 8, and the other of the two screen halves 2 has only
the stopper 3, and these halves are assembled to form the bran removing screen S, or it is
also possible that both of the screen halves 2 have only the stopper 3 for extremely
improving the polishing degree. Also, it is possible to use the screen halves 2 having
only the flap 4.
Next, explanation on the unpolished rice feeding spiral groove 50 formed on the outer
peripheral surface of the feeding roller 5 will be made with reference to Fig. 14.
The feeding roller 5 illustrated in Fig. 1 is formed with a single spiral groove (feeding
spiral groove) 50 for taking unpolished rice dropping from the unpolished rice hopper 14
from its inlet end (right end) to its outlet end (left end) on its outer peripheral surface.
To the contrary, the feeding roller 5 shown in Fig. 14 is formed with two feeding spiral
grooves 50a and 50b which are parallel with each other on its outer peripheral surface.
The feeding spiral grooves 50a and 50b are arranged with a phase shift of 180° or
arranged in such manner that the respective initial ends and the respective terminal ends
of the grooves 50a and 50b are deviated by 180° from each other, respectively at the rear
end peripheral edge and the front end peripheral edge of the feeding roller 5.
In this manner, since two feeding spiral grooves 50a and 50b alternately run in parallel
and at regular intervals along the axial center of the feeding roller 5 on the outer
peripheral surface of the feeding roller 5, the unpolished rice can be equally taken from
the grooves 50a and 50b, and furthermore, unpolished rice is fed into the polishing room
from the terminal ends of the grooves 50a and 50b of which rotation angles differ from
each other by 180°, with the result that it is possible to reduce the vibration by keeping a
balance during rotation of the grinding rollers 1.
Next, configuration of the polished rice outlet formed in the polished rice outlet
member 6 will be explained.
In the lower part of the polished rice outlet member 6, as shown in Figs. 2 and 15-17, a
lower polished rice outlet 6a which is the primary outlet is opened, and in the upper part
of the polished rice outlet member 6, as shown in Fig. 16, a pair of upper polished rice
outlets 6b which is the secondary outlet is provided on the left and right sides on the
bearing cover 33. That is, the polished rice outlet member 6 is provided with the total of
three outlets of polished rice, all of which communicate with the opening 13a formed in
the outlet side supporting panel 13 as shown in Figs. 16 and 17.
As shown in Figs. 15 to 17, a polisher rice outlet trough 46 extends outwardly in the
downward diagonal direction from the lower polisher rice outlet 6a, and the polished rice
outlet trough 46 comprises a left and right passages 46b for the polished rice dropping
from the upper polished rice outlets 6b and a center passage 46a for the polished rice from
the lower polished rice outlet 6a.
Furthermore, an outlet side cover 7 is attached on the front surface of the polished rice
outlet member 6 so as to cover the upper polished rice outlets 6b and the front surface of
the polished rice outlet member 6 in the vicinity of the bearing cover 33, and inside the
outlet side cover 7, polished rice passages from the left and right upper polished rice
outlets 6b to the left and right passages 46b in the polished rice outlet trough 46 are
formed. In addition, transparent peep windows 32 are fitted into the outlet side cover 7
so as to oppose to each of the left and right upper polished rice outlets 6b, so that it is
possible to visually check the discharge condition of the polished rice from the upper
polished rice outlets 6b and the polishing degree of the polished rice.
Furthermore, it is also possible to make each of the upper polished rice outlets 6b
capable of opening/closing, whereby when it is desired to reduce the rice polishing time,
the polished rice is discharged from both of the two upper polished rice outlets 6b,
whereas when it is desired to further improve the polishing degree no matter the rice
polishing time is elongated, the polished rice is discharged from only one of the upper
polished rice outlet 6b.
A pressure adjusting shutter 18 is provided so as to cover the polished rice outlet trough
46, of which upper end portion is pivoted so as to be able to swivel in the vertical
direction on a horizontal pivot axis 18b which is hung on the polished rice outlet trough
46 above the lower polished rice outlet 6a. Also, inside the pressure adjusting shutter 18,
a shutter for lower polished rice outlet 18a placed in the center passage 46a is integrally
formed, of which lower end can completely close the lower polished rice outlet 6a by
coming into contact with the floor surface of the center passage 46a. Incidentally, when
the lower end of the shutter for lower polished rice outlet 18a is in contact with the floor
surface of the center passage 46a, the pressure adjusting shutter 18 including the shutter
for lower polished rice outlet 18a is somewhat inclined downward and rearward.
A weight attaching rod 31 is provided integrally with the pressure adjusting shutter 18
so as to protrude frontward and downward therefrom. To this weight attaching rod 31,
an adjusting weight 30 can be attached while adjusting the number or position thereof,
and the pressure adjusting shutter 18 is urged downward by the gravity exerted on the
adjusting weight 30, which results in generation of a force of pushing the lower end of the
shutter for lower polished rice outlet 18a against the polished rice outlet trough 46 (center
passage 46a). Magnitude of this pushing force determines the free opening of the lower
polished rice outlet 6a. That is, when the pushing force is weak, the free opening is large,
so that the rice discharged from the lower polished rice outlet 6a pushes the shutter for
lower polished rice outlet 18a and discharged along the center passage 46a. The
stronger the pushing force, the smaller the free openings is, and when the pushing force is
made so strong that the free opening is nearly 0, the rice discharged from the lower
polished rice outlet 6a is blocked by the shutter 18a for lower polished rice outlet so that it
can no longer flow down along the center passage 46a.
Incidentally, a spare adjusting weight 30 is attached by passing the same on a spare
weight attaching rod 45 which is horizontally provided on the outlet bearing support 6 so
as to protrude therefrom in the vicinity of the polished rice outlet trough 46. When it is
desired to increase the pushing force of the pressure adjusting shutter 18, the spare
adjustment weight 30 is removed from the spare weight attaching rod 45 and is attached
to the weight attaching rod 31. When it is desired to decrease the pushing force of the
pressure adjusting shutter 18, excess adjusting weight 30 is removed from the weight
attaching rod 31 and attached to the spare weight attaching rod 45.
In this way, by adjusting the number or position of the adjusting weight 30 to be
attached to the weight attaching rod 31, the urge force of the pressure adjusting shutter 18
is adjusted, and the free opening of the lower polished rice outlet 6a is adjusted, with the
result that the residence time of the rice within the rice polishing room formed between
the bran removing screen S and the grinding rollers 1, that is. grinding time and loading
amount are adjusted.
That is, in the case of raising the polishing degree of the polished rice to be discharged,
the adjusting weight 30 on the weight attaching rod 31 is weighed to strengthen the
pushing force of the pressure adjusting shutter 18 provided in the lower polished rice
outlet 6a against discharging of the polished rice, that is, to strengthen the closing degree,
thereby elongating the residence time of the polished rice in the rice polishing room
between the grinding rollers 1 and the bran removing screen S. When the loading
amount of the rice in the rice polishing room increases and the level position elevates as a
consequence this, the polished rice is automatically discharged from the upper polished
rice outlets 6b. Incidentally, in this situation, if the upper polished rice outlets 6b are
designed to be able to open/close, and one of them is in the open state, the residence time
and loading amount in the rice polishing room are further increased, so that the polishing
degree is further elevated. The polished rice discharged from the upper polished rice
outlets 6b passes inside the outlet side cover 7 and drops while being guided by the left
and the right passages 46b of the polished rice outlet trough 46.
In the case of lowering the polishing degree of the polished rice, the degree of pushing
of the pressure adjusting shutter 18 is lowered by adjusting the number and position of the
adjusting weight 30 on the weight attaching rod 31. In this case, the polished rice
mainly drops from the lower polished rice outlet 6a which is the primary outlet and drops
into the center outlet 46a of the polished rice outlet trough 46.
As described above, by adjusting the free opening of the pressure adjusting shutter 18,
the polished rice is discharged from only the lower polished rice outlet 6a which is the
primary outlet when the rice polishing is conducted under the low polishing degree
condition; from only the upper polished rice outlets 6b which is the secondary outlet
when the rice polishing is conducted under the high polishing degree condition; and from
the total of three outlets of the lower polished rice outlet 6a and the upper polished rice
outlets 6b when the rice polishing is conducted under the intermediate polishing degree
condition.
In this way, the polishing degree is adjusted by adjusting the free opening of the
pressure adjusting shutter 18 and thus adjusting the residence time and loading amount of
the rice in the rice polishing room, and in addition, even when the high polishing degree
is selected, the polished rice is smoothly discharged by the upper polished rice outlet 6b,
so that efficiency of rice polishing is secured.
Also, as shown in Fig. 16, in the bearing cover 33, a bearing cleaning fan 48 is fixed to
the front end of the grinding roller shaft 10, which blows the air having taken from a
cooling air intake 49 downwardly formed on the front end of the bearing cover 33 against
the bearing 37. Small rice particles and bran that have leaked to the bearing 37 via the
axial hole 6c of the polished rice outlet member 6 from the discharging roller 9 is returned
to the side of the discharging roller 9 by this air, thereby preventing the bearing 37 from
seizing up due to such adhered objects.
Furthermore, as illustrated in Figs. 15 and 16, the outlet side of the discharging roller 9
is configured in a truncated cone shape, and an extruding member 47 for improving the
discharge efficiency is provided in this part. The extruding member 47 is designed to be
attachable on the surface of the truncated cone of the discharging roller 9 by mean of a
bolt, and have a variable shape and thickness.
Industrial applicability
As described above, according to the horizontal grinding-type rice polishing machine
of the present invention, changes of settings of rice communication passage within the
rice polishing room and polished rice outlet can be easily made in accordance with the
type of unpolished rice and intended polished degree with simple configuration, and
moreover, vibration is reduced by improving the structure of introducing unpolished rice
to the rice polishing room, resulting that high polishing angle and high durability of parts
are realized. Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide rice
polishing fellows or the like with a horizontal grinding-type rice polishing machine
having high durability and practical flexibility with low cost.


We claim:
1. A horizontal grinding-type rice polishing machine, comprising:
a grinding roller (1) fixedly and circularly installed on a horizontal rotation axis
(10);
a concentric cylindrical bran removing screen (S) which can be separated into
longitudinally split two screen halves (2); and
at least one stopper (3) and at least one flap (4),
wherein the grinding roller (1) is covered with the concentric cylindrical bran
removing screen (S) to thereby form a rice polishing room, and
wherein the at least one stopper (3) and the at least one flap (4) are fixedly provided on an inner peripheral surface of each of the two-part split screen halves (2) of the bran removing screen (S), each of 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, so that between the flap (4) and the outer periphery of the grinding roller (1), a distance that allows passing of rice while restricting passing amount, and a distance between the stopper (3) and the outer periphery of the grinding roller (1) that prevents the rice from flowing,
characterized in that, in each screen half (2), the at least one stopper (3) and the at least one flap (4) are attached so that they align alternately in the axial direction.
2. The horizontal grinding-type rice polishing machine as claimed in claim 1,
wherein position of a joint surface (J) between the screen halves (2) of the bran
removing screen (S) is variable in the circumferential direction about the rotation
axis (10).

3. The horizontal grinding-type rice polishing machine as claimed in claim 1 or 2,
wherein both of the screen halves (2) of the bran removing screen (S) have the
same structure, and are so configured that when the respective ends in the axial
direction are inverted, the at least one stopper (3) and the at least one flap (4) are
inverted, and in the rice polishing machine, at least one screen half (2) can be
arranged so that the respective ends in the axial direction are inverted.
4. The horizontal grinding-type rice polishing machine as claimed in claim 3,
wherein, in each screen half (2), the total ef-even number of the at least one
stopper (3) and the at least one flap (4) is an even number.
5. The horizontal grinding-type rice polishing machine-as claimed in claim 1, further
comprising:
a primary outlet (6a) having a shutter (18) of which free opening is adjustable; and
a secondary outlet (6b) not having the shutter (18) provided as an outlet, wherein unpolished rice is supplied from one end side of the rotation axis (10) into the rice polishing room and polished by means of the grinding roller (1) and polished rice is discharged from an the outlet formed on the other end side, and by adjusting the free opening of the shutter (18), the polished rice is discharged from the primary outlet (6a) under low polishing degree condition, from the secondary outlet (6b) under high polishing degree condition and from the primary outlet (6a) and the secondary outlet (6b) under intermediate polishing degree condition.

6. The horizontal grinding-type rice polishing machine as claimed in claim 5,
wherein the secondary outlet (6b) is positioned higher than the primary outlet
(6a).
7. The horizontal grinding-type rice polishing machine as claimed in claim 5 or 6,
wherein the secondary outlet (6b) is provided in duplicate.
8. The horizontal grinding-type rice polishing machine as claimed in claim 7,
wherein the two secondary outlets (6b) are provided in the form of pair disposed
left and right when viewed in the direction of the rotation axis (10).
9. The horizontal grinding-type rice polishing machine as claimed in claim 1, further
comprising:
a feeding roller (5); and
a pair of spiral grooves (50a and 50b) of the feeding roller (5) are formed with a
phase shift of 180° in the circumferential direction of the feeding roller (5),
wherein the feeding roller (5) and a the grinding roller (1) are circularly and fixedly installed on a the horizontal rotation axis (10) in sequence from one end side to the other end side; and
wherein unpolished rice is drawn into a spiral groove formed on the circumference of the feeding roller (5) from an unpolished rice hopper (14), supplied inside the rice polishing room from an outlet end of the spiral groove by means of rotation of the feeding roller (5) and polished by the grinding roller (1), and discharged from an outlet formed on the other end side of the rotation axis (10)

10. The horizontal grinding-type rice polishing machine as claimed in claim 1,
further comprising:
a feeding roller (5);
a discharging roller (9);
a case (11) for accommodating the feeding roller (5); and
a lifter latching block (8),
wherein the feeding roller (5), the grinding roller (1) and the discharging roller
(9) are circularly and fixedly installed on a the horizontal rotation axis (10) in
sequence from one end side to the other end side.
wherein unpolished rice is supplied into the rice polishing room from the feeding
roller (5) and polished by the grinding roller (1), and polished rice is discharged by
the discharging roller (9), and
wherein the case (11) has a the lifter latching block (8), and the rotation axis (10) is supported in horizontal position by inserting the lifter latching block (8) between the feeding roller (5) that has been attached on the rotation axis (10) and the bearing support (11) which cantilevers the rotation axis (10) in installing the grinding roller (1) and the discharging roller (9) on the rotation axis (10).
11. The horizontal grinding-type rice polishing machine as claimed in claim 10
wherein the bearing support (11) is formed with a recess portion (15) nearest the
position where the lifter latching block (8) is to be positioned for horizontally
supporting the rotation axis (10), and the lifter latching block (8) not being used is
fitted in the recess portion (15).

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2134-DELNP-2003-Correspondence-Others-27-05-2008.pdf

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Patent Number 221725
Indian Patent Application Number 02134/DELNP/2003
PG Journal Number 32/2008
Publication Date 08-Aug-2008
Grant Date 03-Jul-2008
Date of Filing 08-Dec-2003
Name of Patentee SEIREI KOGYO KABUSHIKI GAISHA
Applicant Address 428, ENAMI, OKAYAMA-SHI, OKAYAMA 702-8004, JAPAN.
Inventors:
# Inventor's Name Inventor's Address
1 OHNO SHIGEO 428, ENAMI, OKAYAMA-SHI, OKAYAMA 702-8004, JAPAN.
PCT International Classification Number B02B 3/06
PCT International Application Number PCT/JP01/04921
PCT International Filing date 2001-06-11
PCT Conventions:
# PCT Application Number Date of Convention Priority Country
1 PCT/JP01/04921 2001-06-11 Japan