New or Improved Corn Products, and Process for Manufacturing the same.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application (in the United Kingdom), 31st Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Loft, 31st Oct, 1.00 Accented, 13th Dec. 1:90
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Corn Products, and Process for Manufacturing the
same.
I, BENJAMIN GRIFFIN HUDNUT of Terre, Haute, State of Indiana, United States of
America Miller & Manufacturer 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:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of certain corn products, which may be
briefly described as steamed or cooked hominy, grits or meal, and to one form of
which I apply the fancy name of "Maizone Flakes." The products may be employed
either as food, or for brewing purposes.
In the drawings:-
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Figures 1 and 2 represent in diagram two slightly different arrangements of the
several machines employed in the process of manufacture, the arrangement shown in
Figure 2 being adapted to carry on the process a stage further than that shown in
Figure 1.
The raw corn is first passed through a hominy mill or degerminating machine A and
is made into hominy. It is then passed to a reel or grader B to separate the hominy
from the offal, thence the hominy is passed to a dryer C, then to an ordinary cleaning
or scouring machine D, and then it is subjected to any steaming or heating process
commonly known. The machine, however, which I chiefly use for this latter purpose
is a vessel E, two or three feet in diameter (more or less) and four to six feet high
(more or less), into the top of which the hominy as above prepared passes, coming
out at the bottom. Steam is injected into this vessel at a proper temperature, by
which the hominy is partly cooked.
If the flaked form of product is required, the partly cooked hominy is passed from
the heating vessel E between rollers F, Figure 1, for flattening the particles of the
hominy, and thence it is passed into or through a drying machine G, when it is ready
for use.
If the granular form of product is required, the partly cooked hominy is passed
through the drying machine G, after leaving the heating vessel E. At this stage of
manufacture, the granular material may be used for food and is quickly prepared for
the table; but in adapting it to the purpose of brewing, it is taken from the drier G,
passed to reduction rolls F, and then properly graded and cleaned by machines H
and I. It may then be mixed directly with malt for the brewer's use." Heretofore,
in using corn products of this class, the brewer has found it necessary to treat the
material separately before mixing it with the malt, but, with material made by my
process, this separate treatment is no longer necessary.
1 do not herein claim the separate steps of the process above described, either in
making corn into hominy, or of steaming or drying the hominy, or of grinding and
grading the same, as they are separately old.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my sara
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. The process of treating corn for food or brewing purposes, which consists in
manufacturing it into hominy, next separating the hominy from the offal, then drying
and cleaning the hominy, then partly cooking it with steam, then, if the flaked form
of product be required, passing the partly cooked hominy through rolls to flatten it,
and afterwards drying it in a suitable machine, or, if the granular form be required.
passing the partly cooked hominy, first through the drying machine and then through
the reduction rolls, and afterwards, if desired, grading and cleaning the material.
2. A new or improved corn product for food or brewing purposes, consisting of
hominy graded, dried, cleaned and partly cooked by steam, and then either flattened
by rolls and dried, or dried, crushed by rolls, and, if desired, afterwards graded and
cleaned.
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WM. P. THOMPSON & CO.,
Of 6. Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.