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Rice winnowing, Uttarakhand, India Winnowing in a village in Tamil Nadu, India Use of winnowing forks by ancient Egyptian agriculturalists. Winnowing is a process by which chaff is separated from grain. It can also be used to remove pests from stored grain. Winnowing usually follows threshing in grain preparation. In its simplest form, it ...
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English: 17th century Chinese illustration of a crank-operated rotary winnowing fan machine, separating husks from the grain. This picture was published in the year 1637, found in the Tiangong Kaiwu encyclopedia written by the Ming Dynasty scholar Song Yingxing (1587-1666).
A Japanese winnowing basket (2007) A winnowing basket or fan is a tool for winnowing grain from chaff while removing dirt and dust too. [1] They have been used traditionally in a number of civilizations for centuries, [2] and are still in use today in some countries.
At first, artesans from Cantalejo travelled with large carts loaded with selected threshing boards, winnowing bellows, grain measures (of different traditional dry units: celemín is a wooden case with 4,6 L, cuartilla has 14 L, and fanega equivalent to 55.5 L...) and other implements for threshing or winnowing, which they peddled from town to ...
Russian women using a hand powered winnowing machine in a barn. Painting by K.V. Lebedev, The Floor, 1894 Threshing and bagging grain in Germany in 1695 Threshing (thrashing) was originally "to tramp or stamp heavily with the feet" and was later applied to the act of separating out grain by the feet of people or oxen and still later with the ...
The winnowing machine also had a rotary fan which had a blower that had a crank handle to create air to blow away the lighter seed casings to separate the husks from the pile of grain. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] A rotary fan winnowing machine with two farm workers separating the grain from the husks as illustrated in Song Yingxing 's Tiangong Kaiwu .
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