Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cereal-puffing
Patent
1996-03-27
1997-08-26
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cereal-puffing
99568, A23L 118
Patent
active
056600984
ABSTRACT:
A puffing gun for preparing expanded cereal grains comprising a stationary gun barrel of tubular shape having a closed end face and an opposite end face provided with an openable sealing cover, the barrel being substantially horizontally mounted on a supporting frame. A rotatable drum is concentrically disposed within the interior of the stationary barrel and a drive device for rotating the drum is provided. The drive device is operatively connected to the drum and includes a drive shaft passing through the closed end face of the stationary barrel. Heating elements are disposed around the barrel for providing heat to the rotating drum. In addition, a grain feed device is provided for supplying a desired quantity of cereal grain to be expanded into the rotatable drum and a pressurized high gas inlet is provided for supplying pressurized gas to the interior of the barrel and the stationary drum. Operational control of the puffing gun is provided to selectively control heating and pressure of grain placed within the gun.
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patent: 2279868 (1942-04-01), Hayden
patent: 4569850 (1986-02-01), Harris
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