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US 5,512,310 AGranted
Process for the wetting of cereals with a liquid
OwnerDieter O. Graefinventor
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Abstract
A process for the wetting of cereals with a liquid, wherein the cereal/liquid mixture is exposed for a short time (2 to 15 seconds) to strong vibration (shaking at approximately 80 Hz), with the result that the cereals directly absorb the liquid into themselves and immediately become transportable and can be further processed, for example can be ground, without a substantial storage time. (FIG. 1).
Claims26
Process for the wetting of cereals with a liquid, comprising the steps of:
- mixing the cereals with a liquid, wherein at least a portion of the cereals have husks;
- and subsequently exposing the mixture to vibrations in a shaking apparatus sufficient to impart acceleration forces to at least a portion of said cereal/liquid mixture by the contact of at least a portion of the cereal/liquid mixture with a vibrating wall of said apparatus, which acceleration forces provide a substantially uniform wetting of said cereals and a substantially uniform penetration of the liquid from the husk into the inside of the cereal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.