Improvements relating to the Preparation of Rye, to Facilitate the Cooking of the same, and for other Purposes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Oct.. 1889-Accepted, 9th Nov., 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by EDWARD BALL MOWER, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
United States of America, Manufacturer.]
Improvements relating to the Preparation of Rye, to Facilitate the
Cooking of the same, and for other Purposes.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to furnish a product prepared from rye, suitable for
all uses to which rye may be put as an article of food, and possessing the advantage,
among other things, of being easily and quickly cooked or prepared for the table.
To this end, the invention consists of a new article of manufacture, which, from the
fact that it is rolled out into flakes or thin wafers, for the purpose of distinction, I
shall term "rolled rye."
In preparing the rolled rye, I take ordinary rye and subject it to a cleaning process
in order to remove, as far as possible, all impurities, such as dust, weeds and the
like-1 then carefully dry the rye, preferably in a kiln, and then subject the rye
to a process of decortication, preferably by passing it through a pair of rapidly
revolving sand stones. As the rye is discharged from theso stones, it is subjected
to a wind blast, so as to separate and carry off from the rye as much of the
loose fibre and husk as possible. I then prefer to scour the rye by a suitable
emery scourer, removing the remaining particles of the hull, and subjecting it
again to another wind blast to remove the loose hulls resulting from the scourer.
After I have thus decorticated the rye and removed the husk, I subject it to a steaming
process, preferably by bringing a jet of live steam against and in contact with it,
so as to soften the rye and prepare it for the rollers, to which it is to be subjected.
After it has been sufficiently steamed and softened I pass the rye through a set
of rapidly revolving rollers, by which each grain is pressed into a flat flake or
wafer. In passing through the rollers most of the moisture is driven out of the
rye, but in order to fully dry it, I prefer to pass it through a suction fan, which
extracts the moisture and completes the process of manufacturing rolled ryc.
As the object in view is the manufacture of flat flakes.or wafers from ordinary rye
other means may be employed, if desired, or the means above described may be varied
for hulling, cleaning, softening and rolling the rye.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
the
As a new article of manufacture rye prepared substantially in the manner and for
purpose above set forth.
e set fort
th flow of October 1990
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.