Improvements in the Separation and Treatment of Bran.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 30th June, 1896-Accepted, 29th Aug., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Separation and Treatment of Bran.
I, EDWARD BURGESS MARRIAGE of Albert Bridge Flour Mills, Battersea,
in the County of Surrey, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows :-
In milling as now generally carried on, there are usually four or five breaks or
separate products obtainable from what is known in the trade as the offal. These
products are separated through sieves, the substance obtained which passes over
the first or largest mesh sieve being called broad bran, then follows bran, and
subsequently pollards and middlings.
The broad bran is considered more valuable than the bran, and it has heretofore
been proposed to flatten the offal by passing it through rollers; and it has also
been proposed to leave a certain proportion of flour with the bran in order to obtain
large flakes of same.
According to the present invention it is proposed to first separate the broad bran,
then to separate the pollards and middlings from the remainder so as to leave
ordinary bran alone, and then to roll this ordinary bran so as to enlarge the flakes,
such rolling being effected prior to its admixture with the broad bran, if it be
mixed at all.
Dated the 30th day of September 1895.
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
55 & 56 Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agent,
For the Applicant.
Improvements in the Separation and Treatment OI Bran.
I, EDWARD BURGESS MARRIAGE of Frimhurst, Frimley, in the County of
Surrey, Gentleman, formerly of Albert Bridge Flour Mills Battersea 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 :-
In milling as now generally carried on certain products obtainable in the process
are known in the trade as offals. These products are separated through sieves, the
substance obtained which passes over the first or largest mesh sieve being called
broad bran, then follows bran and coarse pollard, and subsequently fine pollards or
sharps and middlings. The broad bran is considered more valuable than the bran,
and it has heretofore been proposed to flatten the offals by passing through rollers;
and it has also been proposed to leave a certain proportion of flour with the bran in
order to obtain large flakes of same.
According to the present invention it is proposed to first separate the broad bran,
then to separate the fine or coarse pollards and middlings from the remainder so as
to leave ordinary bran, or ordinary bran and the coarse pollard alone, and then to
roll this so as to enlarge the flakes, such rolling being effected prior to its
admixture with the broad bran, if it be mixed at all.

page_text: By this process it will be noted that broad bran is first obtained, the fine pollards
or sharps and middlings and at times the coarse pollards are then separated and
may be subsequently dealt with in any of the known ways, while the bran or bran
and coarse pollard which has been separated is rolled so as to produce therefrom
a broad brań closely resembling that first separated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is':-
The improvements in the separation and treatment of bran consisting in first
separating the broad bran from the rest of the offal, then separating the bran or
the bran and coarse pollard therefrom and rolling same so as to enlarge the flakes,
substantially as described.
Dated the 30th day of June 1896
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,,
55 & 56 Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agent,
For the Applicant.