Method and apparatus for treating products, including destroying insect life, disintegrating, cleaning, and separating

Claim 1

IN THE ART OF TREATING A CEREAL PRODUCT SUCH AS WHEAT FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF INSECT LIFE AND FOR THE SEPARATION OF CONSTITUENT PARTS THEREFROM, THE SEPTS OF, PASSING THE STREAM OF THE PRODUCT WITH AN ACCOMPANYING STREAM OF AIR SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTALLY THROUGH A TREATMENT ZONE BY SUBJECTING THE PRODUCT PARTICLES TO HIGH VELOCITY CENTRIFUGAL ACTION, SUBJECTING THE PRODUCT PARTICLES TO AN IMPACTING ACTION DURING THEIR PASSAGE THROUGH SAID TREATMENT ZONE OF SUFFICIENT MAGNITUDE TO DESTROY AND COMMINUTE INSECT LIFE THEREIN, DISCHARGING THE PRODUCT STREAM WITH THE AIR IN A SUBSTANTIALLY FLAT THIN HORIZONTAL WHIRLING HIGH VELOCITY STREAM, DEFLECTING THE STREAM DOWNWARDLY WHILE SUBSTANTIALLY MAINTAINING ITS ANGULAR VELOCITY, CONVERGING SAID STREAM DURING ITS DOWNWARD MOVEMENT, SUBJECTING THE STREAM OF PRODUCT TO A SCREENING ACTION AND AT THE SAME TIME EXPANDING THE AIR LATERALLY OF THE COVERGING PATH OF MOVEMENT OF THE STREAM WHEREBY THERE IS WITHDRAWN FROM THE DOWNWARDLY MOVING STREAM SMALL CONSTITUENT PARTICLES THEREOF INCLUDING THE COMMINUTED INSERT LIFE TOGETHER WITH A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF AIR, DISCHARGING SAID