Patents by Inventor Herman J. Vegter

Herman J. Vegter has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • 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