Satake Corporation

Hideaki Masukane

Chozaburo Ikuta

Satoru Satake

Masashi Kageyama

Haruyoshi Yamaguchi

Akira Fukuhara

Shigeki Kinoshita

Kiminori Kono

Kazutaka Bajyo

Makoto Tomabechi

A rotatively oscillating separator comprising separating vessels each having cone-shaped separating plate disposed in the vessel, and drive means for rotatively oscillating said separating vessels , mixed rice consisting of unhulled rice and unpolished rice being fed onto the separating plates in the separating vessels at a given location to separate the unhulled rice and the unpolished rice from each other, the unpolished rice being discharged through raised peripheral portions of the vessels, and the unhulled rice being discharged through the central bottoms of the separating vessels. The drive means comprises a plurality of oscillatory drives provided at locations equi-angularly spaced around the separating vessels , said oscillatory drives each being upwardly inclined and operatively connected to the raised peripheral portion of the separating vessel to support it, said oscillatory drives being sequentially actuated at predetermined phases of delay to generate oscillatory motion to be imparted to the separating vessels, said each oscillatory drive including an oscillatory angle adjusting mechanism for retaining the oscillatory drive at the upward inclination and for varying an oscillatory angle in the rotative oscillation of the separating vessels.

Rotatively oscillating separator

A rotationally oscillating separator for separating mixed rice into unhulled rice and unpolished rice after the rice have passed through a rice huller to remove the hulls from rice. The separator comprises a vertical rotating shaft supported for rotation and having an axis, means for rotatively driving the rotating shaft, said rotating shaft including eccentric sections offset from the axis of the rotating shaft, separating vessels rotatably mounted on the eccentric sections and having a plurality of segmental separating plates disposed in a cone-shaped configuration within the separating vessels, retaining means on the separating vessels for preventing them from freely rotating, each of the eccentric sections having its axis, an upward extension of which is at a slight angle to the axis of the rotating shaft such that it intersects an extension of the axis of the rotating shaft at a point above its eccentric section, whereby the separating vessels are inclined relative to a horizon so that they are rotationally oscillated around the points of intersection between the extensions of the axes of the eccentric sections and the axis of the rotating shaft as phantom fulcrums, as the rotating shaft is rotated.

Rotationally oscillating separator with eccentric shaft mounting portions

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Chiyoda-ku, Japan

Hideaki Masukane