Patent ID: 6539849
Filing Date: 2003-04-01
Classification: B02B

Abstract:
A rice polisher comprising:a grain-lifting spiral for transporting a white rice above from below; a port for pouring polishing water; a discharge port for the white rice, the discharge port disposed at a head portion; a rice polishing drum, the rice polishing drum having water discharge ports, the water discharge ports provided at a portion forming rice polishing chamber, the water discharge ports being for discharging polished-waste water to prevent the polished-waste water from stagnating inside the rice polishing chamber; and a rice polishing roll, the rice polishing roll housed in the rice polishing drum, the rice polishing roll forming the rice polishing chamber between the rice polishing drum, the rice polishing roll polishing rice by agitating together with the polishing water that is poured from the port and that flows naturally below from above the white rice pressurized by transportation in the rice polishing chamber by the grain-lifting spiral; wherein the rice polisher discharges from the discharge port the white rice that has been polished.