entoleter

plural entoleters

1. A high-speed centrifugal device used to destroy insects and eggs in foodstuffs, especially in flour milling.

   […] flour is often passed through an entoleter before being bagged off, or going to bulk bins. The entoleter […] is a machine consisting of a rotor rapidly rotating within a fixed housing.

   1994, N. L. Kent, Kent's Technology of Cereals, page 187

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   The use of any entoleter for clean wheat ahead of first break is herein treated as a pre-break operation even though many combinations of rotor and liner and speed are available which break very little wheat.

   1952, Beef Cattle Feeding Investigations, page 17

   Physical control methods include electric fly control units […], traps and even entoleters. These can be used with success in some situations. Entoleters are spinning mechanisms usually used within the milling industry to destroy eggs, larvae and adult stages of insects.

   1996, N. Chesworth, Food Hygiene Auditing, page 141