IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT AND PREPARATION OF MAIZE FOR USE IN BREWING, DISTILLING, AND IN THE MANUFACTURE OF VINEGAR
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Bannerman Kinder, of Anerley, in the County
of Surrey, Architect, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT
AND PREPARATION OF MAIZE FOR USE IN BREWING, DISTILLING, AND IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF VINEGAR."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Bannerman Kinder
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 31st December 1881.
THOMAS BANNERMAN KINDER of Anerley in the County of Surrey Architect.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT AND PREPARATION OF MAIZE FOR USE IN
BREWING DISTILLING AND IN THE MANUFACTURE OF VINEGAR."
My Invention has for its object the treatment and preparation of maize for the
production of an improved maize meal to be used in brewing, distilling and in the
manufacture of vinegar.
In carrying out my Invention I roast the maize at such a temperature that
the volatile oil is evaporated and the starch cells gradually expanded until their
destruction is secured, after which I grind or otherwise reduce the product thus
obtained to the condition of a moderately fine meal.
The meal thus prepared can be mixed with the malt and mashed at the ordinary
temperatures, and as much as 50 per cent or any smaller quantities can be used
without interfering with the drainage of the mash tun in any way.-The meal can
be separately treated if desirable.
The meal can be produced from maize roasted on wire floors, frames trays Bieves
or cylinders, all of which may be either fixed or moveable and provided with
appliances for regulating the temperature.
Ovens of any suitable material and form may also be used in preparing the
above mentioned meal.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
"
by the said Thomas Bannerman Kinder in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th June 1882.
THOMAS BANNERMAN KINDER of Anerley in the County of Surrey Architect
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT AND PREPARATION OF MAIZE FOR USE IN
BREWING, DISTILLING, AND IN THE MANUFACTURE OF VINEGAR."
In preparing maize for the purpose of my Invention the grain is roasted at such
a temperature that the volatile oil is evaporated and the starch cells so dis-
integrated or destroyed as to involve the bursting open of the maize corns which
thus treated become a porous mass in which condition they are commonly known
as popped corn.
I continue the application of the heat until the larger number of the maize corns
are burst or popped, but not so long as to produce any serious amount of charring
or discoloration of the maize. As soon as this is accomplished I remove the maize
from the roasting apparatus and grind it or otherwise reduce it to the condition of
a moderately fine meal at once or in any case before it has become toughened by
exposure and the absorption of moisture from the air or otherwise.
Popped corn has been used as food by itself and combined with sugar as a
confection, but it has not been used for conversion by means of the diastase of
malt, into sugars and dextrines for use in brewing, distilling, or vinegar making.
The meal thus prepared can be mixed with the malt and mashed at the ordinary
temperatures, and as much as 50 per centum or any smaller quantities can be used
without interfering with the drainage of the mash, for the ineal produced in the
mode indicated in this Specification has a lesser specific gravity than any meal
which is otherwise prepared from maize and approximates closely to the specific
gravity of ground or crushed malt. It can therefore be used in combination with
inalt without the risk of the meal and malt separating in the mash tun when the
mash is being stirred, which is not the case with any other meal prepared from
maize.
The meal can be separately treated by boiling or otherwise if desired before it is
mixed with the malt in the mash tun.
The meal can be produced from maize roasted on wire floors frames trays sieves
or cylinders, all of which may be either fixed or moveable and provided with
appliances for regulating the temperature.
Ovens of any suitable material and form may also be used.
In witness whereof I the said Thomas Bannerman Kinder have hereunto set
my hand and seal this Twenty-eighth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty-two.
THOMAS RANNERMAN KINDER 1101
THOMAS BANNERMAN KINDER
(IS)