RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Seed Cleaning: Improvements to the brush cleaning comb
JF Native Plants Journal
JO NATIVE PLANTS JOURNAL
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 38
OP 44
DO 10.3368/npj.11.1.38
VO 11
IS 1
A1 Barner, Jim H
A1 Windell, Keith
YR 2010
UL http://npj.uwpress.org/content/11/1/38.abstract
AB An improved brush cleaning comb has been developed by the Missoula Technology and Development Center using an approach suggested by the USDA Forest Service’s Bend Seed Extractory. Brushing machines remove the awns (stiff, slender, sometimes barbed stalks) when grass seeds are cleaned. Rotating brushes cut off the awns by scraping the seeds against the brushing machine’s wire mesh mantle screen. The improved brush cleaning combs keep the awns from clogging the rotating brushes.