Foods and beverages: apparatus – Means to treat food – Subdividing into plural products
Patent
2000-01-19
2000-10-03
Simone, Timothy
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Means to treat food
Subdividing into plural products
99546, 99635, 99637, 99641, A23N 1500, A23N 1512
Patent
active
061257451
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a sprouting bean roots removing apparatus for removing roots of sprouting beans as harvested for refinement thereof.
2. Description of the Prior Art
As sprouting beans as harvested have roots and these roots are often slightly colored, their existence in the sprouting beans as commercial goods is sometimes deemed an eyesore thing. Also, the sprouting beans deteriorate quicker in the root portion, hence it has been long desired to remove roots of the sprouting beans as harvested.
However, it is extremely difficult to remove roots only of the sprouting beans having various shapes. Especially if a strong force is added on the sprouting beans as harvested for removing roots thereof, it will hurt the sprouting beans or make them prone to deteriorate. For this reason, it has been hardly done conventionally to remove roots of the sprouting beans. That is, it has been so done conventionally that the sprouting beans as harvested are immersed in a water tank which is filled with a large amount of water and while foreign matters, such as hulls or dusts, attaching to the sprouting beans are being washed off to be removed, some of the roots are removed together incidentally.
In some cases, it is also done to remove roots of the sprouting beans manually but this requires an extremely troublesome and time-consuming work and it has been almost impossible to remove roots of the sprouting beans finely to a satisfactory extent.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus which is able to remove roots of sprouting beans as harvested to a satisfactory state.
It is also an object of the present invention to provide a sprouting bean roots removing apparatus which neither hurts sprouting beans as commercial products nor makes them prone to deteriorate.
In order to achieve said objects, the present invention provides a sprouting bean roots removing apparatus, characterized in comprising a base plate on which the sprouting beans are placed to be conveyed, said base plate being formed thereon with a projection which has at its upper face an angular portion and elongates in a cross machine direction which is defined a direction crossing a moving direction of said base plate, and a roots cutting member which is arranged above said base plate with a predetermined small space being maintained from said base plate, has at its lower face an angular portion and elongates in the cross machine direction, and characterized in being constructed such that relative movements are given between said base plate and roots cutting member so that sprouting bean roots may be cut by and between mutually opposing said angular portions of said projection and roots cutting member.
The mentioned base plate may be constructed as a conveyor which is moved in one direction and is fitted to its upper surface with the projection consisting of a plurality of first plate-like members arranged with a predetermined space being maintained between each of said first plate-like members. Also, the mentioned roots cutting member may be constructed by a plurality of second plate-like members arranged with a predetermined space being maintained between each of said second plate-like members.
Further, the mentioned roots cutting member may be constructed so as to repeat movements and stops alternately, wherein said movements are in the same direction as the moving direction of the base plate and in a faster velocity than a moving velocity of the base plate.
In the apparatus so constructed, when the sprouting beans are placed on the base plate to be conveyed, as they are wet and their root portions are slender and flexible, the wet root portions come in a state to stick to the upper surface of the base plate by the surface tension of water.
In the apparatus of the present invention, while the sprouting beans are being conveyed with their root portions sticking to the upper surface of the base plate, the roots cutting member is giv
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Simone Timothy
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