Department of Physics and Astronomy: Publications and Other Research
Date of this Version
July 1954
Abstract
A device is described which effects a continuous separation of internally infested wheat from sound wheat, and which separates wheat into a number of fractions of different test weight. A stream of wheat, projected into still air by rapidly moving belts, is dispersed by the combined effects of air drag and gravitation into numerous fractions which are caught in a series of hoppers. Infested kernels fall short of sound grain and are thus separated. Test weight varies progressively and characteristically with distance from the point of projection.
Comments
Published in CEREAL CHEMISTRY 31:4 (July 1954), pp. 316-325. Published by The American Association of Cereal Chemists. Used by permission.