Patent ID: 8137717

Claim:
An apparatus for producing humanly-edible food cake from a feedstock comprising water, yeast, fungi, amylase, sugars, and a biological containing a first toxin that can be rendered harmless by heating and a second toxin that is soluble in alcohol, said biological selected from the group consisting of algae, castor beans, jojoba beans, Indian beech seeds, and Jatropha curcas L. seeds, said apparatus comprising: (a) an air-tight fermenting tank with a stirrer, said stirrer driven by a motive source, said fermenting tank being arranged to anaerobically ferment said feedstock into a mixture comprising at least a plurality of components selected from the group consisting of mash, ethanol, water, a first toxin that can be rendered harmless by heating, and an ethanol-soluble second toxin, (b) a still, (c) a heating container, and (d) a first conduit with a normally-closed first valve that connects said fermenting tank to said still, thereby permitting the liquid part of said components in said tank to flow from said fermenting tank into said still when said first valve is open, (e) said fermenting tank further including a normally-closed second valve and a second conduit for delivering said mash to said heating container when said second valve is open, (f) said still having a first heater arranged to heat the contents of said still to distill ethanol from said liquid component, (g) said heating container having a second heater and being arranged to heat said mash and said first toxin, thereby rendering said first toxin harmless and producing said cake, whereby said apparatus will be able to reduce the amount of said first and said second toxins in said mash sufficiently to render said cake safe for human and animal consumption and also produce alcohol.