Improvements in the Manufacture of Food for Animals.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 26th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 30th Nov., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Food for Animals.
I, JOSEF STEISKAL, of Pöllendorf in the Empire of Austria, Estate Trustee, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:—
This invention relates to the manufacture of animal food by the admixture with
known food materials of more or less nutritious by-products or waste materials
resulting from various industries, which have hitherto been considered of little or
no value.
According to my invention I take one or more of the following waste or
by-products, of breweries, malt houses, and the like, namely yeast, sediments from
beer casks, cooler sediments, broken barley, barley dust, broken malt germs spent
hops, floating grain, wet or dry spent grain, and filter residues, and after subjecting
these to suitable preparatory treatment, I incorporate the same intimately with
oats, hay, clover, chaff and other known vegetable food, the resulting compound
being if necessary subjected to a grinding or crushing process, after which it is used
as food either in the loose form, or pressed into cake form.
The different materials above mentioned are subjected to different preparatory
treatment before admixture, according to the nature thereof.
Thus according to one mode of manufacture I take spent grain, floating grain or
broken grain, which substances are first dried or desiccated if necessary, and are
then crushed, I then take brewers yeast and after draining it so as to remove a
large proportion of the water, I boil it in a jacketted vessel into the jacket of which
steam is introduced.
I then take spent hops which are also first dried.
The above ingredients are then intimately mixed together and with chaff, with or
without admixture of broken malt germs, and this compound is theu either used as
animal food directly in the loose form, or it is compressed into cakes.
The proportions of the above ingredients may be varied considerably; the
following have proved advantageous.
Brewers yeast, about
Broken grain
Dry spent grain
Malt germs
Spent hops
Chaff
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154 parts
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47
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2
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1
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5
According to another mode of manufacture I take about 260 parts of the
prepared yeast, and after draining and boiling the same, I mix it with about
60 parts of chaff, or 1 mix about 220 parts of the prepared yeast with about
51) parts of malt germs, or I mix from 75 to 79 parts of the prepared yeast with
about 10 parts of malt germs and with from 63 to 80 parts of oats.
In like manner a great variety of other food compounds may be prepared by
taking different combinations of the hereinbefore mentioned ingredients.
As in the case of yeast, the other wet ingredient such as wet spent grain,
sediments &c., are first partially drained and then boiled for about one hour in
steam jacketted vessels.
When using sediments these first require to have any foreign matter that
might be more or less injurious, such as cask-pitch, &c. carefully removed from
them.

page_text: The yeast, which is the principle ingredient in all of these compounds, may
instead of being boiled, be dried or desiccated, and then crushed, before admixture
with the other ingredients.
In some cases it is of advantage to mix a certain amount of a soda or potash salt
(such as bicarbonate of soda) with the food, for preventing the sweating of animals.
A suitable proportion for such addition, would be about 40 grammes of the salt to
about 150 kilos. of the food.
Dated this '11th do'y of March 180
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
improvements in the manufacture of Food T
I, JOSEF STEISKAL, of Pöllendorf in the Empire of Austria, Estate Trustee,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is
to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
This invention relates to the manufacture of animal food by the admixture, with
yeast, of known food materials, or of more or less nutritious by-products or waste
materials resulting from various industries, which have hitherto been considered of
little or no value.
According to my invention I mix with yeast one or inore of the following waste
or by-products, of breweries, malt houses, and the like, namely, sediments from
beer casks, cooler-sediments, broken barley, barley dust, broken malt germs, spent
hops, floating grain, wet or dry spent grain, and filter residues, and after subjecting
these to suitable preparatory treatment, 1 incorporate the same intimately either
with each other or with oats, hay, clover, chaff and other suitable known vegetable
food, the resulting compound being, if necessary, subjected to a grinding or
crushing process, after which it is used as food either in the loose form, or pressed
into cake form, either solid, or preferably hollow for facilitating the drying thereof.
The different materials above mentioned are subjected to different preparatory
treatment before admixture, according to the nature thereof.
Thus according to one mode of manufacture I take spent grain, floating grain or
broken grain, which substances are first dried, or desiccated if necessary, and are
then crushed; 1 then take brewers yeast and after draining it so as to remove a
large proportion of the water, I boil it in a jacketted vessel, into the jacket of which
steam is introduced. I then take spent hops, which are also first dried, and barley
dust.
The above ingredients are then intimately mixed together and with chaff, with or
without admixture of broken malt germs, and this compound is then either used
as animal food directly in the loose form, or it is compressed into cakes.
The proportions of the above ingredients may be varied considerably; the
following have proved advantageous.

page_text: It is to be understood that I do not limit myself to the various proportions of the
ingredients above given. As in the case of yeast, the other wet ingredient such as
wet spent grain, sediments &c. are first partially drained and then boiled for about
one hour in steam jacketted vessels.
When using sediments, these first require to have any foreign matter that might
he more or less injurious, such as cask-pitch &c., carefully removed from them.
The yeast, which is the principle ingredient in all of these compounds, may
instead of being boiled, be dried or desiccated, and then crushed, before admixture
with the other ingredients.
In some cases it is of advantage to mix a certain amount of a soda or potash salt
(such as bicarbonate of soda) with the food, for preventing the sweating of animals.
A suitable proportion for such addition, would be about 40 gramines of the salt
to about 150 kilos. of the food.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A manufacture of food for animals consisting of the admixture with boiled
and dried er desiccated yeast, of one or more other by-products or waste materials
from breweries, malt houses and distilleries, or of ordinary cattle food such as chaff,

page_text: clover, oats, and the like, the whole being ground together or otherwise intimately
incorporated, substantially as herein described.
2. The several compounds of yeast with other ingredients herein set forth, to be
used as food for animals.
3. The admixture with the ingredients for food for animals herein referred to of
a soda or potash salt for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 26th day of October 1895.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.