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Apparatus for treating soybeans
Assignee: Sulzer Escher Wyss AG
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Filing: 1985-10-28
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Granted: 1987-07-21
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Expires: 2005-10-28
Abstract
Abstract During processing the soybeans are heated-up in a first of two successively arranged fluidized beds with a rapidity such that the hulls loosen or detach from the seeds and there is obtained a honogeneous heating of all of the soybeans. The heated-up soybeans may be directly conveyed into the second fludized bed where they are maintained in a heated condition and from which location they are infed in a heated state to a breaking or cracking mill where they are crushed or cracked and then to a flaking device for the subsequent flaking thereof. It is also possible to undertake along the conveying path from the first fluidized bed to the second fluidized bed a mechanical dehulling operation at the soybeans where the hulls are separated from the seeds and the seed portions are delivered into the second fluidized bed. At that location, the seed portions are maintained in a heated condition and then they are delivered in a heated state to the breaking or cracking mill where they are crushed or cracked and then to the flaking device where they are subsequently flaked. Processing is accomplished continuously and the material is only heated-up one time.
Inventors
- 👤 Helmut Bartesch
- 👤 Gerd Florin
Bibliographic Details
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Jurisdiction
US
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2026-11-05 05:15
CPC Classifications
C; C11; C11B; C11B1/00; C11B1/02; C11B1/04; B; B02; B02B; B02B1/00; B02B1/08
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 18
Claim 1
Independent Claim
219 words
An apparatus for the continuous preparatory treatment of soybeans in order to recover soybean oil and soybean meal, comprising: a fluidized bed for applying to the soybeans composed of hulls and seeds contained in such hulls a substantially homogeneous heat treatment for a relatively brief amount of time insufficient for substantial heat diffusion to the seeds, so as to essentially apply heat only to the hulls and the outer surface of the seeds, in order to render the hulls brittle and to cause them to loosen from the seeds; a corrugated roll mill arranged after said fluidized bed; means for feeding the substantially homogeneously heat treated soybeans from the fluidized bed to said corrugated roll mill without any intermediate cooling thereof; said corrugated roll mill subjecting the substantially homogeneously heat treated soybeans while in a heated condition to forces in order to split the soybeans, so that there are substantially formed split seeds and split hulls; a separate impacting device arranged after the corrugated roll mill; and means for delivering soybeans from said corrugated roll mill without any intermediate cooling to said separate impacting device where the split soybeans composed of the split seeds and split hulls are subjected to an impacting action in order to separate a predominant part of the split hulls from their related split seeds.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
219 words
An apparatus for the continuous preparatory treatment of soybeans in order to recover soybean oil and soybean meal, comprising: a fluidized bed for applying to the soybeans composed of hulls and seeds contained in such hulls a substantially homogeneous heat treatment for a relatively brief amount of time insufficient for substantial heat diffusion to the seeds, so as to essentially apply heat only to the hulls and the outer surface of the seeds, in order to render the hulls brittle and to cause them to loosen from the seeds; a corrugated roll mill arranged after said fluidized bed; means for feeding the substantially homogeneously heat treated soybeans from the fluidized bed to said corrugated roll mill without any intermediate cooling thereof; said corrugated roll mill subjecting the substantially homogeneously heat treated soybeans while in a heated condition to forces in order to split the soybeans, so that there are substantially formed split seeds and split hulls; a separate impacting device arranged after the corrugated roll mill; and means for delivering soybeans from said corrugated roll mill without any intermediate cooling to said separate impacting device where the split soybeans composed of the split seeds and split hulls are subjected to an impacting action in order to separate a predominant part of the split hulls from their related split seeds.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
89 words
The apparatus as defined in claim 1, further including: an air throughflow device arranged following the separate impacting device; means for feeding the separated hulls and seeds from said separate impacting device towards said air throughflow device; means for employing air of the air throughflow device as aspiration air for the elimination of the hulls from the seeds prior to entry of the seeds into the air throughflow device; and means for infeeding the seeds to the air throughflow device for maintaining the seeds therein in a heated condition.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
16 words
The apparatus as defined in claim 2, wherein: said air throughflow device comprises a fluidized bed.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
46 words
The apparatus as defined in claim 3, wherein: said means for infeeding the seeds to the air throughflow device feeds the seeds thereto in a direction opposite to exhaustion of air from the air throughflow device and which exhausted air is employed as said aspiration air.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
24 words
The apparatus as defined in claim 4, further including: exhaust air pipes structured as sifters for accomplishing separation of the hulls from the seeds.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
71 words
The apparatus as defined in claim 1, further including: an air throughflow device arranged following the separate impacting device; means for feeding the separated hulls and seeds towards said air throughflow device; means for eliminating the hulls from the seeds prior to entry of the seeds into said air throughflow device; and means for infeeding the seeds to said air throughflow device for maintaining the seeds therein in a heated condition.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
25 words
The apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein: said separate impacting device comprises a hammer-type mill which subjects said split soybeans to said impacting action.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
16 words
The apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein: said fluidized bed comprises a heat exchanger-fluidized bed.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
26 words
The apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein: said fluidized bed has a floor portion which is slightly inclined between opposed ends of said fluidized bed.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
23 words
The apparatus as defined in claim 9, wherein: said floor portion possesses a maximum inclination of approximately 3% with respect to the horizontal.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
43 words
The apparatus as defined in claim 9, wherein: one of said opposed ends of said fluidized bed defines an outfeed end; and removal means provided for said outfeed end of said fluidized bed for the removal of undesired particles contained in the soybeans.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
14 words
The apparatus as defined in claim 11, wherein: said removal means comprises worm means.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
18 words
The apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein: said corrugated roll mill is a single-stage corrugated roll mill.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
18 words
The apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein: said corrugated roll mill is a double-stage corrugated roll mill.
Claim 16
Independent Claim
188 words
An apparatus for the continuous preparatory treatment of soybeans in order to recover soybean oil and soybean meal, comprising: a fluidized bed for applying to the soybeans composed of hulls and seeds contained in such hulls a substantially homogeneous heat treatment, in order to render the hulls brittle and to cause them to detach from the seeds; a corrugated roll mill arranged after said fluidized bed; means for feeding the substantially homogeneously heat treated soybeans from the fluidized bed to said corrugated roll mill without any intermediate cooling thereof; said corrugated roll mill subjecting the substantially homogeneously heat treated soybeans while in a heated condition to shearing forces in order to split the soybeans, so that there are substantially formed split seeds and split hulls; an impacting device arranged after the corrugated roll mill; and means for delivering the split soybeans from said corrugated roll mill without any intermediate cooling to said impacting device where the split soybeans composed of the split seeds and split hulls are subjected to an impacting action in order to separate a predominant part of the split hulls from their related split seeds.
Claim 17
Independent Claim
188 words
An apparatus for the continuous preparatory treatment of soybeans in order to recover soybean oil and soybean meal, comprising: a fluidized bed for applying to the soybeans composed of hulls and seeds contained in such hulls a substantially homogeneous heat treatment, in order to render the hulls brittle and to cause them to detach from the seeds; a corrugated roll mill arranged after said fluidized bed; means for feeding the substantially homogeneously heat treated soybeans from the fluidized bed to said corrugated roll mill without any intermediate cooling thereof; said corrugated roll mill subjecting the substantially homogeneously heat treated soybeans while in a heated condition to shearing forces in order to split the soybeans, so that there are substantially formed split seeds and split hulls; an impacting device arranged after the corrugated roll mill; and means for delivering the split soybeans from said corrugated roll mill without any intermediate cooling to said impacting device where the split soybeans composed of the split seeds and split hulls are subjected to an impacting action in order to separate a predominant part of the split hulls from their related split seeds.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
16 words
The apparatus as defined in claim 15, wherein: said fluidized bed comprises a single-stage fluidized bed.
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