Patents Assigned to Ranks Hovis McDougall Ltd.
  • Patent number: 4674689
    Abstract: A milling machine particularly a disc mill for processing cereal seeds and cereal derivatives including a top disc through a central opening in which the material may be fed, and a bottom disc spaced from the top disc, both discs having mutually opposed profiled surfaces and the distance between the discs and the offset of the axes being adjustable to obtain optimum milling of the materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1987
    Assignee: Ranks Hovis McDougall Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert Wiggins, William R. King, Jeffrey G. Barker, Geoffrey A. LeGrys
  • Patent number: 4501765
    Abstract: Process for reducing the nucleic acid content in the production of an edible protein-containing substance comprising contacting a grown non-toxic microfungus of the class Fungi Imperfecti with a solvent comprising between 40% and 100% (by volume) of a lower alkanol containing up to three carbon atoms and thereafter incubating at a pH between 5 and 9.5 and at a temperature between 30.degree. C. and 80.degree. C. for a time of at least 90 seconds. There is disclosed an edible protein-containing substance of a non-viable edible non-toxic fungal mycelium of a non-toxic strain of the microfungus. The protein-containing substance is characterized by an essentially white color and improved ease of processing to a form suitable for food use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1985
    Assignee: Ranks Hovis McDougall Ltd.
    Inventors: Peter J. Towersey, John Longton, Geoffrey N. Cockram