| 摘要 |
An apparatus is provided which is designed to be connected to a steam source for steaming materials therein. In particular, the apparatus is designed to steam treat raw soybeans with the hulls intact. The apparatus includes a chamber for receiving and passing the materials to be steamed therethrough which is partitioned into at least two substantially unobstructed vertical compartments. Steam pipes which are connected to the steam source are positioned adjacent the partition at spaced intervals between the top and the bottom of the chamber in order to deliver steam into each of the compartments within the chamber. In the preferred embodiment, the steam chamber includes an upper and lower chamber and the partition divides the upper chamber vertically into two side-by-side compartments. The upper chamber is twenty - thirty feet long or longer. |
