POLISHED RICE VENDING MACHINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a polished rice vending machine which can be installed while saving the space and can be manufactured at a low cost. SOLUTION: The polished rice vending machine has a function that unpolished rice in the storage tanks 5, 5 is measured by a measuring apparatus 6, a prescribed quantity of the measured unpolished rice is charged successively to a polishing apparatus 1 and the polished rice is discharged to a user tank 22 and a function that a prescribed quantity of the measured unpolished rice is supplied successively to the polishing apparatus 1 and discharged to the user tank 22 as it is without polishing the unpolished rice. The polishing apparatus 1 is composed of a polishing chamber 10 receiving the unpolished rice sent from the storage tank 5, a resistant board 12 for blocking a rice outlet 13 of the polishing chamber 10 to be opened or closed by a rice polishing degree adjusting means, a polished rice route 11 for polishing the unpolished rice and sending to the rice outlet 13 side by passing through the polishing chamber 10 when the resisting board 12 is closed and a suction apparatus 14 for sucking and removing the rice bran produced in the rice polishing from rice grain. The resistant board 12 is kept to open the rice outlet 13 by the rice polishing degree adjusting means in the discharge of the unpolished rice. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI