"Vibrating Cleaner" Feeds Corn Stove

"Vibrating Cleaner" Feeds Corn Stove FARM HOME Miscellaneous 26-6-32 When Roger Foster bought a corn-burning stove, he needed a way to clean the distressed corn which he bought from a local elevator. The Tower, Ill. farmer ended up building his own portable cleaner out of an old commercial vibrating concrete machine. "It's a small scale cleaner, but it works good and didn't cost much to put together," says Foster, who uses the rig in his machine shed. The vibrating screener was originally powered by a gas engine. He replaced it with a 1/2 hp electric motor, which belt-drives the vibrator. Above the vibrator he built a wooden screen housing which consists of a 1/2-in. hardware cloth on top and a 1/4-in. hardware cloth below it. The machine has three discharge points. Cobs and stalks come off the top-mounted 1/2-in. screen and fall into a 5-gal. bucket in front. Clean corn comes off the 1/4-in. screen and falls into another 5-gal. bucket on one side. Fines drop through the 1/4-in. screen and are discharged into a third bucket on the other side. "It's a simple design but it works well," says Foster. "I can vary how much the screens vibrate by changing the size of the pulleys. Corn is augered into the cleaner from a nearby gravity wagon." Foster says no plans are available. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Roger Foster, Rt. 1, Box 108, Tower Hill, Ill. 62671 (ph 217 567-3417).

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