Patents Assigned to Latenstein Zetmeel B.V.
  • Separation of gluten and starch from wheat flour
    Patent number: 4494530
    Abstract: In a process utilizing a battery of hydrocyclones for separating wheat starch and gluten contained in an aqueous wheat flour slurry, the slurry is supplied to a first section of the hydrocyclone battery, in which a gluten fraction is removed as overflow, and the starch-rich fraction from such first battery section is first treated to reduce its pentosan content and is then treated in a second section of the hydrocyclone battery which delivers a concentrated starch fraction as underflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1985
    Assignee: Latenstein Zetmeel B.V.
    Inventors: Wytze Jansma, Jan Mars, Pieter G. Stoutjesdijk, Herman J. Vegter