A PROCESS FOR UTILIZING RAW VEGETABLE FATS & MATTERS FOR ARTIFICIAL BUTTER AND OTHER ALIMENTARY PURPOSES
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Carl Alphonse Meinert and Paul Jeserich both of
Berlin in the German Empire for an Invention of "A PROCESS FOR
UTILIZING RAW VEGETABLE FATS & MATTERS FOR ARTIFICIAL BUTTER AND
OTHER ALIMENTARY PURPOSES
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Carl Alphonse Meinert and
Paul Jeserich at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th
February 1883.
CARL ALPHONSE MEINERT and PAUL JESERICH, both of Berlin in the German
Empire "A PROCESS FOR UTILIZING RAW VEGETABLE FATS AND MATTERS FOR
ARTIFICIAL BUTTER AND OTHER ALIMENTARY PURPOSES
"
The object of our said invention is to utilize raw vegetable fats and other matters
for artificial butter and other alimentary purposes.
The said raw vegetable fats and other matters after going through a melting
process which relieves them of all mechanical defilements as well as water, are
subjected to a treatement with caustic ammonia respectively caustic alcalines or
alcaline earths at a warm temperature.
This operation after having been influenced by the process described will be
interrupted and now the separation of salt matters formed through the acids of the
fat, which are the cause of a disagreeable taste in all vegetable fats & substances
will be resorted to.
These fats and substances will be placed in a suitable vessel filled with water,
thoroughly washed and cleansed and under moderate temperature by permitting it
to stand still the layers of fat are taken off and by again melting and thus seperating
the fat from the superfluous water.
The fat & substances thus obtained will be either used direct for alimentary
purposes or can be in an ordinary way manufactured into artificial butter.
The quantity of alcaline respectively alcaline earth to be applied in this process
will depend upon the analytically determined quantity of acidy ingredients
contained in the raw vegetable fats and substances to be worked up.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Carl Alphonse Meinert and Paul Jeserich in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 20th August 1883.
CARL ALPHONSE MÉINERT and PAUL JESERICH both of Berlin in the German
Empire " UTILIZING RAW VEGETABLE FATS AND OTHER MATTERS FOR ARTIFICIAL
BUTTER AND OTHER ALIMENTARY PURPOSES
"
The object of our invention is to utilize raw vegetable fats and other matters for
artificial butter and other alimentary purposes.
The said raw vegetable fats and other matters after undergoing a process of
melting in order to cleanse them from all mechanical impurities as well as water,
are subjected to treatment with caustic Ammonia, caustic alkalies, or alkaline earths
respectively at a warm temperature
When the above operations have been carried out the next process is the separa-
tion of the saline matters arising from the acids of the fat, which are the cause of a
disagreeable taste in all vegetable fats and substances.
For this purpose the fats and substances are placed in a suitable vessel filled with
water and thoroughly washed and cleansed under moderate temperature: then
allowed to settle and the layers of fat are afterwards taken off and by again molted,
whereby the fat is separated from the superfluous water.
The fat and substances thus obtained are either used in their then state for
alimentary purposes, or in the ordinary manner manufactured into artificial butter.
The quantity of alkali or alkaline earths respectively to be used in this process
will depend upon the quantity of acid ingredients analytically ascertained to exist
in the raw vegetable fats and substances to be operated upon.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of our invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, we claim :---
The method and means of utilizing raw vegetable fats and other fats, and
rendering the same available for artificial butter and other alimentary purposes
substantially as herein before described.
In witness whereof we the said Carl Alphonse Meinert and Paul Jeserich
have hereunto set our hands and seals this eighteenth day of August in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty three.
DR CARL ALFONS MEINERT (TO)