Satake Usa, Inc.

Peter Mathieson Matthews

John Steinfort

Alberto Macedo

A top-fed vertical grain mill which causes intermittent compression of grains while reducing potential overmilling. The top-fed vertical grain mill includes a resistor bar, a plurality of rolls having a smooth, metal vertical outer periphery on which a vertically-aligned stirring bar is positioned, and a bran removal cylinder having a plurality of perforations therethrough, which may be throughout or which may be below the bottom surface of the top-most of the plurality of rolls.

Vertical top-fed grain mill

The present invention provides a process to remove the bran and the germ from the endosperm of a corn kernel. The process includes use of an apparatus having a chamber to induce rubbing between adjacent corn kernels to remove bran and an apparatus for germ removal having frictional cylindrical rollers rotating substantially parallel to one another, in opposing directions, and tensioned to impart low-impact friction forces to each corn kernel drawn between the roller surfaces. The process of the present invention includes a tempering step including adding an amount of moisture to the bran of the corn kernel by wetting and soaking the corn kernel; a bran removal step for removing substantially all bran from the corn by rubbing corn kernels together; a second tempering step including adding an additional amount of moisture to the exposed germ by wetting and soaking the exposed germ; and a degermination step to fracture the endosperm about the germ, substantially freeing the germ from the endosperm.

Corn debranning and degermination process

The present invention provides a process to remove the germ from the endosperm of a corn kernel. The apparatus of the present invention comprises frictional cylindrical rollers, each roller rotating about an axis, the axis of the rollers substantially parallel, and the direction of rotation being opposing. The roller bodies having a rubberized covering, rotate with differing surface velocities and are tensioned such as to impart low-impact friction forces to corn kernels drawn between the roller covers. The process of the present invention includes a tempering step comprising adding an amount of moisture to the corn by wetting and soaking the corn; a polishing step for removing bran layers from the corn; a second tempering step comprising adding an additional amount of moisture to the corn by wetting and soaking the corn; and a friction step to remove germ from the endosperm.

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Katy, TX, United States of America

Peter Mathieson Matthews