extructor

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noun

A prebreaker.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounextructor (plural extructors)

plural extructors

  1. food processingA prebreaker.

    The frozen fish were first reduced to about 1-inch pieces by one pass through a Rietz extructor (prebreaker).

    1964, Fishery Leaflet - Issues 571-607, page 19
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    To develoop a quick, economical method for thawing of frozen menhaden for future operations at the Experiment and Demonstration Plant (EDP) by using an active-surface heat exchanger, several combinations of disintegrator, extructor and thermascrew were used.

    1973, United States. National Marine Fisheries Service, Fish Protein Concentrate Information Packing, page 19

    The tempered blocks are broken by an extructor, pass through a grinder, and are delivered in stainless steel bins by lift trucks to the preliminary blending system.

    1974, Food Engineering - Volume 46, page 4

    Out of the deep freeze and onto the production line: The Balfour extructor. A Balfour Extructor should be your first choice in prebreaking equipment when it comes to the size reduction of whole frozen food blocks.

    1980, Food Processing Industry - Volume 49, page 58
  2. An industrial machine for mixing, chopping, and kneading substances.

    Powders are introduced through the rear entrance chute and are massed with liquid which enters the extructor from feed ports along the chamber.

    1976, Leon Lachman, Herbert A. Lieberman, Joseph L. Kanig, The Theory and Practice of Industrial Pharmacy, page 633
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    Another machine from the same source is the Extructor, in which blades arranged in a spiral pattern act in conjunction with stationary anvils to give a continuous kneading, mulling and mixing action on the materials passing through.

    1969, Chemical Processing - Volume 15, Issues 7-11, page S-45

    Extructor: Continuously mixes and blends solids and liquids where paste and plastic masses are handled that are too viscous for the Scott - Rietz Disintegrator .

    1970, British Chemical Engineering: BCE. - Volume 15, page 117

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