CIAE Power Operated Millet Flaking Machine
Millets are gaining importance as food, which is evident from the availability of several types of processed and semi-processed food products in the market. Flaked millets are one such specialty food product. Millets have different physical properties than the major cereals like rice and wheat; therefore, require a specific machine for processing like flaking. So far, rice flaking machines were used to flake millets; however, not a specific machine was designed considering the millets. A compact machine operated by 2 hp single phase electric motor to make millet flakes by pressing conditioned millets between two textured stainless-steel rollers. The adjustable gap between rollers makes it suitable for use with different sizes of millets/cereals and other food/feed materials into variable thickness flakes. The bolted acrylic inspection window helps to monitor the operation and cleaning the machine. All the machine parts, coming in contact with food materials are made up of food grade 304-stainless steel material for safe food production. The machine capacity is 100 kg/h.