AN IMPROVED COMBINATION OF MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR GRINDING AND OTHERWISE PREPARING GRAIN AND " FOR BREAD MAKING
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alexander Melville Clark at the
Communi-
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th July 1882.
cated to him from abroad by Jacques Eugène Jean Louis Mounié, of Paris,
France.
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ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK of the firm of A. M and W. Clark of 53 Chancery
Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agents. AN IMPROVED COMBINATION
OF MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR GRINDING AND OTHERWISE PREPARING GRAIN AND
"
FOR BREAD MAKING [Communicated to him from abroad by Jacques Eugène
Jean Louis Mounié, of Paris, France.]
This Invention relates to milling and baking and consists in novel combinations
of means for preserving cleaning and grinding grain as well as for making bread
under the best conditions both as regards hygiene as well as economy of space
plant, labor, and cost,
The following are the arrangements whereby the above results are obtained.
1st It being more costly to erect buildings of considerable height than to spread
them over a large area (although the exact difference of cost is only ascertainable
by comparing two alternative schemes) it is proposed for the purposes of this
Invention to erect a building having a superficial area of 2,500 square metres, or
25 metres in breadth by 100 metres in length, which is amply sufficient for a
production of 50,000 kilogrammes of bread per diem.
2nd I construct two granaries on the Pavy system 12 metres in diameter by ten
metres high and each capable of containing 10,725 sacks of 100 kilos.
3rd A Rose's cleaner is placed at a sufficient elevation between the two granaries
and discharges into the second of these, the wheat after it has been cleaned.
4th From this second granary, the wheat is to be conveyed to the hopper of a
Carr's disintegrator capable of delivering 2,500 kilogrammes per hour and which
if made metre 20 c in diameter will do the work of twelve pairs of stones thus
effecting an economy of 40% in motive power. A space of four square yards is
sufficient, for its erection, one man only is needed to attend to it, it requires no
dressing, the flour which does not heat retains all its nutritive qualities and can be
used immediately and the product equals 80°/
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page_text: 5th Rose's dressing machines of the most improved construction are used capable
of producing 2,500 kilos per hour.
6th The bran is conveyed to and collected in a separate chamber.
PANIFICATION.
7th Liquid yeast of the kind made by Guibert of Bordeaux is to be used.
8th The most improved system of grinding produces 78° at least of panifiable
flour while 80% is obtainable with the Carr system, but the tailings always
contain about 80% of matters containing gluten or fatty matters which are utilised
in the Mege-Mouriès system of panification, which produces about 10% over and
above the 80% mentioned. The residue of this treatment may be employed for
making horse biscuits.
9th The flour passes direct into a Deliry kneader in the desired quantity to
Two of these kneading
produce about 750 kilos of dough at each operation.
machines would be employed.
10th The Deliry dough weigher then seizes the dough and it is immediately
formed into 100 lumps of the desired weight which are deposited in tins and
allowed to remain for about 15 minutes to allow of fermentation being completed,
before baking.
11th The Coffin oven invented by the admiral of that name in 1810 has never
hitherto been utilised for want of machines capable of supplying it. It consists of
a series of galleries 15 metres in length by 0-70 c in breadth and 0.20 c in height.
It is heated by superheated steam at 225° to 300° and is provided with dampers
which permit of regulating the heat according to the size of the loaves, or the time
occupied by the endless chain in traversing the length of the oven the dough being
placed upon the chain at the mouth of the oven and delivered baked into bread at
the opposite end with remarkable cleanliness. The cost of baking is only one
tenth of that by the ordinary system.