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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2003
Satoru Satake, late of Tokyo, JP;
Nobuhiro Matsumoto, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Munesada, Tokyo, JP;
Yukihiro Kawano, Tokyo, JP;
Akihiko Kato, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuto Nonaka, Tokyo, JP;
Katsunori Chikamune, Tokyo, JP;
Yosuke Inomoto, Higashihiroshima, JP;
Kaoru Shitadera, Higashihiroshima, JP;
Satake Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for manufacturing no-bran cereal such as no-bran rice which require no washing before cooking. With the apparatus, bran stuck on a surface of a grain of the polished cereal is easily removed without imparting any damage on the surface, and further moisture in the grain is maintained to increase taste of the cereal. Moisture is added to the polished cereal and granular material is mixed and stirred with the moistened polished cereal to polish a surface of each grain of the polished cereal and remove bran stuck on the surface of the polished cereal. Then, the polished cereal is separated from the granular material to obtain the no-bran rice.