MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FOOD TO BE EMPLOYED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR MILK IN THE REARING AND FEEDING OF YOUNG ANIMALS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Simpson at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 21st November 1883.
CHARLES SIMPSON, of Chiswell Street in the County of Middlesex,-“ IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FOOD TO BE EMPLOYED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR
MILK IN THE REARING AND FEEDING OF YOUNG ANIMALS"
This Invention consists in the manufacture preparation and employment of
what is known as the Celestial Bean (Soja Híspida) when treated as hereinafter
described which I have ascertained to possess a virtue or properties which render
it specially suitable, when treated as hereinafter described, to be used in the
feeding of young animals, and especially calves, as a substitute for milk. The bean
may be used with advantage in conjunction with other nutritive and alimentary
substances or products containing starchy, fatty, bone forming, flesh-forming, or
condimental matters, and which will vary according to circumstances as is well
known; or the bean may in some cases be employed without any such addition.
In manufacturing this milk substitute the Celestial Bean is subjected to processes
of cleaning, dressing, drying, cooking, or malting, (one or more of them) as may be
desirable to render it perfectly digestible and generally as suitable as possible for
this special use of rearing and feeding young animals: and the said Bean is then
reduced either alone or mixed and incorporated with other substances (as mentioned
above) to a fine state of division, so as to render it, or the product resulting from
its admixture with said substances, a flour, powder, or meal capable of being
employed, mixed with water or other fluid or vehicle, as a food in the form of
gruel, on which young animals can be reared and fed in the place of milk.
The beans are passed through a winnowing or dressing machine, (and even, if
necessary, are washed through a vessel, or under a stream of water) to remove all
dirt and impurities-they are then dried by steam heat, by a blast of hot air, or
by drying in a kiln-They are, in addition to this, cooked if necessary by either
steam, hot air, or direct heat from a furnace or oven for some hours (the length
of cooking depending on their condition), and they are, when ultimately by these
means brought into a suitable condition, reduced to a fine state of division by
grinding in a steel roller, horizontal stone or other grinding mill.
At the point in these processes of manufacture which may be most convenient
and advantageous I may mix with the beans such other substances as I consider

page_text: may be required to rectify any variation in the composition of beans themselves,
and to render the ultimate product a more perfect substitute for milk-and also to
subject the beans or the admixture of the beans with other substances to the
ordinary process of malting
The value of this Invention consists in the discovery that the above mentioned
Soja Hispida or Celestial Bean closely resembles in composition and in the nature
of its constituent feeding matter the solid feeding matters contained in milk, and
that therefore when reduced to a suitable state of division and treated as described
above it is particularly qualified to form a food to be used as a substitute for milk
for the feeding of young animals.