Patent ID: 7134240

Claim:
A rotary seed and sprout washing, sanitizing, and/or propagating apparatus, comprising: (a) a vessel or an assembly of vessels for containing seed or sprouts that rotates around an axis; (b) a support carriage for said vessel or assembly of vessels, said carriage providing rotatable support to said vessel(s) for rotation of same about an axis that is variable along a substantially vertical plane by means of a pivoting carriage; (c) said carriage mounted on a pivot or a plurality thereof that is attached to or supported by a base; (d) said carriage pivots on said pivot mount(s) about its axis of a substantially horizontal axis, that is substantially of a right angle to the axis of said rotating vessel or vessel assembly; (e) a drive means to rotate said vessel or vessel assembly on said rotatable support; (f) a drive means to pivot said carriage about its said axis; (g) a liquid feeding apparatus or plurality thereof that feeds water or solution into said vessel(s) to the seed or sprouts; (h) said rotatable vessel(s) being adaptable to thoroughly drain out all water or solution while retaining seed and sprouts when said pivotable carriage inclines the rotation axis of the vessel(s) sufficiently in a certain direction for complete and thorough drainage, such retaining of seed being the case with or without vessel(s) rotation; (i) said rotatable vessel(s) being adaptable to contain a substantive amount of water or solution when said carriage is pivoted substantively in the direction opposing aforesaid draining position; whereby said vessel(s) can be postured for effective water or solution containment, which coupled with the motion capabilities, enable seed and sprout submersion and agitation alternated with thorough draining, to significantly benefit product washing, rinsing, sanitizing, and/or propagation objectives.