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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4400219 | Plant for continuously preparing starch glue The plant comprises a single reactor divided into adjacent cells which communicate together with a limited passage opening. An inlet for a primary starch fraction and an inlet for a starch-reducing product open into one end-cell, an outlet for the glue co... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4393202 | Method for dewatering starch slurries containing swollen starch granules resulting from treatment with cationic reagents The production rate and yield resulting from the dewatering of starch conversion products containing swollen starch granules resulting from treatments with cationic reagents is improved by the addition to the starch slurry of a water soluble anionic polym... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4391836 | Process for preparing instant gelling starches Instant gelling tapioca or potato starches characterized by forming at least a weak gel having Bloom strengths of about 70 grams are prepared by forming an aqueous slurry of native tapioca or potato starch at a pH of about 5-12, drum drying the slurry to ... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4368212 | Process for producing bland-tasting starch A bland-tasting starch is prepared by stirring a starch having a distinct cereal or root taste in aqueous slurry form with an acid at about pH 3-5 for at least about 25 minutes, adding an alkaline earth metal oxide to a pH of 5.5 to 8 and stirring, and th... | 01/11/1983 |
| 4303452 | Method of producing improved starch by smoking A method of producing improved starch, which comprises subjecting starch having a water content of not more than 50% to a smoking treatment.... | 12/01/1981 |
| 4303451 | Method for modifying texture and flavor of waxy maize starch The flavor of waxy maize starch intended for use in thickened food compositions are modified by heat treating the starch to a temperature between about 120° and about 200° C. for a time period of less than 1 hour up to about 24 hours. The heat-treated w... | 12/01/1981 |
| 4283232 | Process and apparatus for use in treating materials in hydrocyclones In apparatus comprising a plurality of hydrocyclone stages connected in cascade as a totally enclosed system, for use in the upgrading of starch or other particulate feedstock, there is provision for recycling part of the underflow stream from the final h... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4280851 | Process for cooking or gelatinizing materials A process and apparatus is provided for cooking or gelatinizng a material in an atomized state, so that there is obtained an easily dryable, uniform and finely-sized product. The material which is to be cooked is injected through an atomization aperture i... | 07/28/1981 |
| 4280718 | Pressure sensitive recording sheet containing size classified cereal starch granules A pressure sensitive recording sheet, e.g. carbonless copy paper, having a surface coated with rupturable, micro-capsules and large granule cereal starch particles to prevent premature rupturing of the micro-capsules, the starch particles comprising 99% b... | 07/28/1981 |
| 4279658 | Chemical-mechanical starch conversion Gelatinization and dispersion of starch with a starch solvent such as sodium hydroxide and using mechanical shear.... | 07/21/1981 |
| 4266348 | Fluidized bed process A process and apparatus for fluidized bed operations wherein the fluidized bed includes an upper fluidized zone and a lower fluidized zone, with each of the upper and lower fluidized zones equipped with agitating means therein. Positioned intermediate the... | 05/12/1981 |
| 4260642 | Process for modifying starch with sodium or calcium stearoyl-2-lactylate This invention involves a process for preparing a pregelatinized modified starch suitable for use in instant puddings which comprise forming an aqueous slurry containing an ungelatinized starch and an effective amount of sodium or calcium stearoyl-2-lacty... | 04/07/1981 |
| 4256509 | Physical modification of the viscosity characteristics of starchy flours A method of modifying the viscosity characteristics of a starchy flour by physical treatment, including heating in alcohol in a confined zone. The resulting starchy flour exhibits thin-thick viscosity characteristics when heated, and provides added viscos... | 03/17/1981 |
| 4256771 | Continuous gelatinization process A starch-containing material is gelatinized in a continuous process by contacting discrete granules of the material with steam under substantial turbulence utilizing a Venturi mixing effect. The water content of the initial turbulent mixture is sufficient... | 03/17/1981 |
| 4247568 | Preparation of low-calorie food ingredients from starch Non-digestible food additives are prepared by heating starch with an edible di- or tri-basic carboxylic acid and anhydrides thereof acid at 140° to 220° C. under reduced pressure and in the presence of less than 5% water for sufficient time to form a no... | 01/27/1981 |
| 4197372 | Semi-flexible polyurethane foams containing amylaceous material and process for preparing same Semi-flexible, shock-absorbing polyurethane foams containing an amylaceous material, such as a cereal starch or flour, and having an open cell structure are prepared by co-reacting the amylaceous material and a polyether with an aromatic polyisocyanate ha... | 04/08/1980 |
| 4158574 | Hydrolyzed amylaceous product and process of making the same An amylaceous material having alkaline viscosities in the range of 10 to 20 seconds using a 1.3 g sample and 15 to 20 seconds using a 5.2 g sample and having cold water solubles of between 50% and 98% is made by hydrolysis of starting material such as cor... | 06/19/1979 |
| 4156759 | Polyurethane foams containing stabilized amylaceous materials Polyurethane foams are prepared by reacting an active hydrogen-containing organic compound with an organic polyisocyanate in the presence of a blowing agent and an amylaceous material which has been stabilized (a) by treating with a stabilizing agent cont... | 05/29/1979 |
| 4155884 | Process and apparatus for producing modified starch products A process and apparatus are described for producing modified starch products. In the method of the invention, a slurry of starch is continuously moved at elevated temperature and pressure through a tubular heating zone and the hot fluid mass emerging from... | 05/22/1979 |
| 4154623 | Method of preparing refined starch hydrolysates from starch-containing cereals A process of preparing a starch hydrolysate from wheat, barley or rye comprising the steps of contacting kernels of wheat, barley or rye with an aqueous solution to hydrate and soften the kernels, gently wet-milling the hydrated and softened kernels, sepa... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4115146 | Process for the depolymerization of starch by irraciation and products so obtained Process for depolymerizing starch by irradiation in which granular starch, whose water content is at the most about 23%, is subjected, in the presence of an acid which is neutralized at the end of the treatment, to a dose of radiation which is a function ... | 09/19/1978 |
| 4029516 | Process for producing soluble amylose A multi-step process for producing soluble amylose involving the dissolution and dissociation of amylose in a first organic solvent, the hydrolyzation of amylose into lower molecular weight components, and the use of a second organic solvent to form a pre... | 06/14/1977 |
| 4025657 | Extruded starch product for tapioca-style pudding An ingredient for enhancing the texture and organoleptic properties of tapioca-style pudding. Granular starch is pre-extruded under controlled conditions to obtain partially gelatinized spheroidal starch particles for use in tapioca-style puddings. The sp... | 05/24/1977 |
| 3996061 | Stilt material for pressure sensitive microencapsulated coatings Large diameter legume starch granules including starches derived from yellow field pea, Pisum sativum (var) and faba bean, Vicia faba L. (Leguminosae) which have been treated to remove protein and fiber, and to improve color are used to replace scarce arr... | 12/07/1976 |
| 3996060 | Stilt material for pressure sensitive microencapsulated coatings Large diameter starch granules derived from yellow field pea, Pisum sativum (var) and faba bean, Vicia faba L. (Leguminosae) are used to replace scarce arrowroot starch granules as a protective stilt material in microencapsulated coatings, including carbo... | 12/07/1976 |
| 3986890 | Method of producing starch hydrolysis products for use as food additives Method for the preparation of starch hydrolysis products containing mixtures having a dextrose equivalent of 5 to 10 which mixtures have the property of forming together with water, white glossy thermoreversible gels having a neutral taste, which gels are... | 10/19/1976 |
| 3977897 | Process for preparing a non-chemically inhibited starch A non-chemically inhibited starch is prepared by controlled heating at a specified pH of an aqueous suspension of an amylose-containing starch in intact granule form and an inorganic salt effective in raising the gelatinization temperature of the starch.... | 08/31/1976 |
| 3975206 | Method of peroxide thinning granular starch An improved method for thinning starch in the granular state employing hydrogen peroxide and metal ion catalysts in an aqueous suspension, free of buffer additions. The thinning action proceeds in acid pH to the desired viscosity level, and is stopped by ... | 08/17/1976 |
