provements in Treating Lentils, Peas, and other Leguminous Vegetables to Obtain New Alimentary Products.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 18th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 24th Dec., 1896
DIONAL SPE
CATION
Improvements in Treating Lentils, Peas, and other Leguminous
Vegetables to Obtain New Alimentary Products.
We, JOHN DUNN, and WILLIAM DUNN, of Kelso Mills, Kelso, in the County
of Roxburgh, North Britain, Corn and Flour Millers and Merchants do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows, that is to say:-
Our said invention has for its object by improved treatment to obtain from
lentils, peas, and other leguminous vegetables new alimentary products, which are
in a form facilitating cooking operations and have other advantages.
In carrying out our invention we first treat the lentils, peas, or other leguminous
vegetables as is ordinarily done in forming "split" lentils or peas. We next
moisten or partially cook the granules by means of steam or hot water or otherwise
or soften them by cold water and afterwards pass them between a pair of rollers,
which may be cold but are by preference heated by steam or hot water, whereby the
granules are compressed into flakes. We finally dry the flaked granules by moving
them slowly on an endless cloth over pans heated by means of steam or hot water
and with or without the aid of air from a fan. Or the flaked granules may be
allowed to dry by simply exposing them to atmospheric action.
Dated this Nineteenth day of February 1896.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicants' Agent.
Improvements in Treating Lentils, Peas, and other Leguminous
Vegetables to Obtain New Alimentary Products.
We, JOHN DUNN, and WILLIAM DUNN, of Kelso Mills, Kelso, in the County
of Roxburgh, North Britain, Corn and Flour Millers and Merchants, 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, that it to say :-
Our said invention has for its object by improved treatment to obtain from
lentils, peas, and other leguminous vegetables new alimentary products, which are
in a form facilitating cooking operations and have other advantages.
In carrying out our invention we first treat the lentils, peas, or other leguminous
vegetables as is ordinarily done in forming split lentils or peas. We prefer to
cut or break the split lentils or peas to divide each split part into two or more
parts by passing them through one or more pairs of grooved rollers having six or
more longitudinally or helically cut grooves to the inch after which the lentils or
peas are, if desired, passed over a sieve or through suitable sifting apparatus to
separate fine particles. We next moisten or partially cook the granules by means

page_text: of steam or hot water or otherwise or soften them by cold water and afterwards
pass them between a pair of rollers, which may be cold but are by preference
heated by steam or hot water, whereby the granules are compressed into flakes.
We finally dry the flaked granules by moving them slowly on an endless cloth over
pans heated by means of steam or hot water and with or without the aid of air from
a fan. Or the flaked granules may be allowed to dry by simply exposing them to
atmospheric action.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
Obtaining new alimentary products from lentils, peas, and other leguminous
vegetables substantially in the manner hereinbefore described.
Dated this Seventeenth day of November 1896.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicants' Agent.