Color sorting machine for cereal grain or the like having dust collecting device
CA 2224832 C · Owner: Ito, Takafumi · Inventors: Ito, Takafumi; Satake, Satoru; Tanimoto, Hiroshi
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A color sorting machine sorts particles of different colors from raw material such as cereal grains or the like. The machine has a down chute descending towards a front side of the machine for letting raw material particles flow down linearly, a photoelectric detection device which subjects the raw material particles jumped out of the down chute to light and discriminates different-color particles in accordance with difference in reflected light, and a nozzle device which injects air to and blows off the different-color particles. The injection nozzle device is situated on the rear side of the machine with respect to a coming-down locus of raw material particles from the down chute and …
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- Filed December 15, 1997 and granted November 28, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 15, 2017.
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