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(11) |
EP 0 444 912 A3 |
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EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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Date of publication A3: |
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08.04.1992 Bulletin 1992/15 |
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Date of publication A2: |
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04.09.1991 Bulletin 1991/36 |
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Date of filing: 27.02.1991 |
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Designated Contracting States: |
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AT BE CH DE DK ES FR GB GR IT LI LU NL SE |
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Priority: |
27.02.1990 GB 9004314
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Applicant: FARROW AND WILSDON LIMITED |
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Southminster,
Essex CM0 7JF (GB) |
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Inventors: |
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- Wilsdon, John
Southminster,
Essex CM0 7JF (GB)
- Shaw, David
Dengie,
Essex CM0 7JD (GB)
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Representative: Ablewhite, Alan James et al |
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MARKS & CLERK,
57/60 Lincoln's Inn Fields
London WC2A 3LS
London WC2A 3LS (GB) |
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Method of skinning and cutting product and apparatus therefor |
(57) A method and an apparatus for skinning and cutting wet grain has a hopper 10 supplying
wet, cooked grain via a feed channel 11 to a hopper 9. The hopper 9 is connected to
feed grain to one end of a perforated cylinder 1. Located within the cylinder is a
shaft 3 rotatable by a motor 5, the motor being controlled by a variable speed device
7. The shaft 3 carries a plurality of axially spaced rectangular knives 4, adjacent
knives being oriented at approximately 90° to one another. In use wet grain entering
the cylinder is bruised and the skins of the grain are weakened and removed to fall
through the cylinder perforations, and the thus skinned grain is subsequently cut
by the knives until of such a size that the grain passes through the cylinder perforations
2. The skins and grain are sorted by blowing and the cut grain is dried for subsequent
use.