Improvements in the Treatment of Bananas and Plantains for Production of Meal and Flour therefrom.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 21st Aug., 1893-Accepted, 23rd Sept., 1993
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Treatment of Bananas and Plantains for
Production of Meal and Flour therefrom.
We LODEWYK EDUARD ASSER, Engineer, of Laan Copes 24, The Hague, and
LODEWYK ALEXANDER HENDRIK HARTOGH, Engineer, of Singel 548, Amsterdam,
in the Kingdom of Holland, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
The present invention relates to the treatment of bananas and plantains, to the
end that they may be preserved from fermentation or other source of deterioration,
which would render them unfit for the production of meal or flour therefrom.
In carrying out this invention, the banana or plantain fruit, which is picked
while still green, is submitted, in a closed vessel, to the action of steam. The
bananas or plantains are then peeled and broken, and squeezed between rollers.
These rollers may be perforated with holes through which the pulped fruit is
pressed, leaving the peel on the surface of the rollers, whence it can be removed, if
it is desired to keep the peel separate from the fruit.
.If preferred, the fruit, unpeeled, may be cut up into small pieces, instead of
being pulped as above described.
After the pulping or cutting up of the fruit, it is thoroughly dried by placing it
on a perforated plate, heated underneath, and through the holes, in which a current
of heated air passes. The fruit is, by preference, kept in a state of movement
during the drying operation.
The pulp may be dried somewhat more quickly by causing it to be taken up on
the circumference of heated rollers or drums, whence it is scraped, and falls into a
heated trough or gutter, in which it is stirred until completely dry.
After drying the fruit in this manner, it will keep well, whether it be ground at
once into meal or flour, or stored or packed, and subsequently ground.
Dated this 19th day of November 1892.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Treatment of Bananas and Plantains for
Production of Meal and Flour therefrom.
We LODEWYK EDUARD ASSER, Engineer, of Laan Copes 24, The Hague, and
LODEWYK ALEXANDER HENDRIK HARTOGH, Engineer of Singel 548, Amsterdam,
both in the Kingdom of Holland, 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 present invention relates to the treatment of bananas and plantains, to the
end that they may be preserved from fermentation or other source of deterioration,
which would render them unfit for the production of meal or flour therefrom.
The
In carrying out this invention, the banana or plantain fruit, which is picked
while still green, is submitted, in a closed vessel, to the action of steam.
bananas or plantains are then peeled and broken, and squeezed between rollers.
These rollers may be perforated with boles through which the pulped fruit is
pressed, leaving the peel on the surface of the rollers, whence it can be removed, if
it is desired to keep the peel separate from the fruit.

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If preferred, the fruit, unsteamed and unpeeled, or peeled by hand, may be cut
up into small pieces, instead of being pulped as above described.
After the pulping or cutting up of the fruit, it is thoroughly dried by placing it
on a perforated plate, heated underneath, and through the holes in which a current
of heated air passes. The fruit is, by preference, kept in a state of movement
during the drying operation.
The pulped or divided fruit may be dried somewhat more quickly by causing it
to be taken up on the circumference of heated rollers or drums, whence it is
scraped, and falls into a heated trough or gutter, in which it is stirred until
completely dry.
After drying the fruit in this manner, it will keep well, whether it be ground at
once into meal or flour, or stored or packed, and subsequently ground.
:
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 :-
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The method of treating bananas and plantains herein described, consisting in
pulping or dividing up the fruit, and thoroughly drying it, substantially as
explained, for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 21st day of Auœust. 1893
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.