NUT GRINDING APPARATUS Russian patent published in 2001 - IPC

FIELD: food-processing industry. SUBSTANCE: nut grinding apparatus has casing, nut feeding device positioned on casing and adapted to feed nuts for grinding, and ground nut receiving device. Grinding unit has at least one pair of rolls arranged so that gap between them may be changed and rolls may be rotated by drive at equal angular rotational speed in opposite directions. Each roll has at least two disk-type cutters. Spacer disk positioned between each pair of disk-type cutters has size corresponding to size of ground nut fraction. Longitudinal knives are arranged perpendicular to plane of arrangement of disk-type knives. Distance between longitudinal knives also corresponds to ground nut fraction size. Apparatus is used for grinding kernels released from shells of different kinds of nuts. EFFECT: increased efficiency and reduced ground nut production cost. 10 cl, 3 dwg