Apparatus for measuring grain hardness

Details Apparatus for measuring grain hardness Apparatus for measuring grain hardness

1986-07-10

1987-11-03

Noland, Tom

Measuring and testing

Hardness

By penetrator or indentor

73 78, 83411A, 241 6, G01N 340

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047036478

ABSTRACT:
A grain hardness tester which includes a rotating plate equipped with a plurality of openings arranged in a circle around the plate periphery, a grain feeder adapted to dispense grains singly and sequentially into the openings, the plate being equipped with a peripheral slot communicating with the openings, a disc positioned in the slot and adapted to engage the grains sequentially and a load cell and microprocessor operably associated with the disc for reporting the force of encounter of the disc with a grain kernel.

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patent: 2839917 (1958-06-01), Webster
patent: 3264866 (1966-08-01), Bouschart et al.
patent: 3511078 (1970-05-01), Rajkai
patent: 3592362 (1971-07-01), Kane
patent: 4472960 (1984-09-01), Motoyama et al.
"Determination of Hardness in Wheat Mixtures, Part II. Apparatus for Automated Measurement of Hardness of Single Kernels"; Cereal Chemistry, 34 page copy of article therein; published 1985; F. S. Lai et al.

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