provements in the Treatment of Grain and Malt, and the Produc- tion therefrom of a New Product, more especially intended for use in Brewing and Distilling or as a Food
Year: 1890

page_text: Cate of Application, 3rd Sept., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 3rd June, 1891-Accepted, 4th July, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Improvements in the Treatment of Grain and Malt, and the Produc-
tion therefrom of a New Product, more especially intended for
use in Brewing and Distilling or as a Food."
I BENJAMIN EDWARD REINA NEWLANDS of 27 Mincing Lane in the City of
London Analytical Chemist do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to combine glucose, cane sugar, caramel and
other saccharine substances with grain such as rice maize barley or wheat or malt
or black malt or the like thereby producing an article possessing the properties of
both the saccharine matter and the grain or malt the use of which when employed
for brewing or distilling overcomes certain technical difficulties attending their
employment in the ordinary way for those purposes.
According to my invention I cause grain or malt to absorb the saccharine
matter which absorption I may effect by soaking the grain or malt in a solution of
glucose cane sugar caramel or other saccharine substance (which may be either in a
cold or a heated condition) until it has absorbed the liquid in quantity varying
with the kind and quality of the grain or malt or the product desired. I may
facilitate the absorption by employing either suction or pressure. When the
absorption is effected 1 drain off any excess of liquid there may be and I dry the
grain or malt so treated which drying may be effected in any suitable apparatus.
If the product is required to be in a gelatinized condition this can be effected
by raising the temperature of the saccharine liquid to the gelatinizing point of the
particular grain or malt treated.
The operation of absorbing the saccharine liquid can be facilitated by crushing
the grain previous to its treatment.
The finished product may then be used in the brewers or distillers mash tun in
conjunction with malt in the ordinary way or the said product may be used by
itself as food or for other required purpose.
Dated this 3rd day of September 1890.
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Treatment of Grain and Malt, and the Produc-
tion therefrom of a New Product, more especially intended for
use in Brewing and Distilling or as a Food.
I BENJAMIN EDWARD REINA NEWLANDS of 27 Mincing Lane, in the City
of London, Analytical Chemist, 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 my invention is to combine glucose, cane-sugar, caramel, or other
saccharine substances, with grain, such for instance as rice, maize, barley or wheat,
or malt, or black malt, or the like; thereby producing an article possessing the
properties of both the saccharine matter and the grain, or malt, the use of which
when employed for brewing, or distilling, overcomes certain technical difficulties
attending their employment in the ordinary way for those purposes.
According to my said invention I cause grain, or malt, to absorb or become
impregnated with the saccharine matter which absorption or impregnation 1 may
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page_text: effect by soaking the grain, or malt, in a solution of glucose, canc-sugar, caramel,
or other saccharine substance (which solution may be either in a cold or in a
heated condition) util it has absorbed, or become impregnated with, the liquid in
quantity varying with the kind and quality, of the grain, or malt, or the product
desired.
I find that a solution of the saccharine mattor, caramel, or the like, of a density
of about 28 degrees Baumé and at a temperature of about 150 degrees Fahrenheit
gives good results.
The process of absorption is facilitated by stirring and it may be further
facilitated by employing either suction, or pressure, which may be done by placing
the materials in a closed vessel having in connection therewith a forcing, or suction,
device, by which the solution is caused to penetrate the grain, or malt, very
efficiently and it may be circulated through the mass of the grain, or malt.
;
When the absorption is effected (which I find does not usually take more than
about eight hours) I drain off any excess of liquid there may be, which draining
may be effected upon wire-work, or perforated trays, and then I dry the grain, or
malt, so treated, which drying may be effected in any suitable drying apparatus.
If the product is required to be in a gelatinized condition this can be effected by
raising the temperature of the saccharine solution used in the process above the
gelatinizing point of the particular grain, or malt, treated.
The absorption of the saccharine solution can be facilitated by crushing the
grain, or malt, previous to its treatment.
The finished product may then be used in brewer's, or distiller's mash tuns, in
conjunction with malt in the ordinary way, or the said product may be used, by
itself, as food, or for other required purpose.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is.
First The treatment of grain, or malt, by impregnating it with, or causing
it to absorb, glucose, cane-sugar, caramel, or other saccharine matter; substan-
tially as, and for the purposes, herein before described.
Second-The treatment of grain, or malt, by impregnating it with, or causing
it to absorb, a solution of glucose, cane-sugar, caramel, or other saccharine
matter, and afterwards draining, and drying, the grain, or malt, so treated; sub-
stantially as, and for the purposes herein before described.
Third The treatment of grain, or malt, by impregnating it with, or causing
it to absorb, glucose, cane-sugar, caramel, or other saccharine matter, at a tempera-
ture sufficient to gelatinize the grain substantially as, and for the purposes,
hereinbefore described.
Fourth-As a new article of manufacture, grain, or malt, treated with glucose,
cane-sugar, caramel, or other saccharine mattor, substantially as hercinbefore
described and claimed.
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