Abstract: This method is provided for preconditioning lumps of sugar obtained from humidified and agglomerated caster sugar, before these lumps are dried.The sugar lumps are heated, after moulding, by means of an infra-red heating. The lumps are heated for a very short, but sufficient period of time for a cloud of steam-saturated atmosphere to be constituted around each lump, this cloud forming a barrier against the infra-red radiation and avoiding the rapid drying of the lump, and for the temperature attained by this lump on entering the oven to be higher than the dew point.
Abstract: Method for manufacturing a lactulose powder with a low hygroscopicity by mixing ethyl alcohol to a highly hygroscopic lactulose-containing powder followed by allowing the resulting mixture to stand or stirring it for at least 1 hour, separating the lactulose-containing material insoluble in ethyl alcohol from the mixture and removing ethyl alcohol from the material separated.
Abstract: Lactose crystals of improved purity and reduced color are obtained by washing the lactose crystals in an alkaline wash-bath having a pH within the range of from about 8.5 to about 12.5. The isolated washed crystals exhibit improved purity particularly in the reduction of nitrogen-containing impurities as evidenced by a reduced total Kjeldahl nitrogen content and a substantially white color.
Abstract: To alpha-lactose or an alpha-lactose-containing substance is added a small amount of water and the resulting mixture is subjected to extrusion from a screw extruder under pressure, thereby converting the alpha-lactose into beta-lactose. The beta-lactose or beta-lactose-containing substance thus obtained is dried, pulverized and stored as it is.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 26, 1976
Date of Patent:
April 11, 1978
Assignees:
Meiji Milk Products Company Limited, Taiyo Kagaku Kogyo Company Limited
Abstract: Tabletting compositions are formed by adding to a crystalline sugar such as dextrose, sucrose, and blends of dextrose and sucrose, a low D.E. starch hydrolysate having a descriptive ratio of less than about 2 and subsequently agglomerating the mixture. When this starch hydrolysate is added in amounts of about 1 to about 10% by weight of the sugar, the resulting agglomerated crystals exhibit reduced dusting and breakage characteristics, as well as the ability to be easily compressed into strong tablets using relatively low pressures.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 3, 1974
Date of Patent:
March 22, 1977
Assignee:
CPC International Inc.
Inventors:
Arthur L. Nelson, Donald J. Skrabacz, Burbank Young
Abstract: The method of preparing adjuvant-free tablets from a tableting mass having a tendency to stick, comprising alternately in the same mold forming tablets from said tableting mass and from an adjuvant mass containing an easily tableted substance, a lubricant and a mold parting agent. The lubricant may be talc or sodium benzoate present in about 5 to 20% by weight, and the mold release agent may be stearic acid, a stearate, paraffin or a silicone oil in about 0.5 to 10% by weight. By this method tablets of pure fructose can be formed.
Abstract: Dry beverage mixes that are stable, free flowing and economical are produced by incorporating as a minor constituent thereof up to the level of 50% of the saccharides present, a dessicated dextrose having a moisture content, as packaged, less than 1% and greater than 0.03% under controlled relative humidity packaging.
Abstract: Mixture of dextrose monohydrate and sucrose in a weight ratio, respectively, of about 1:99 to 50:40 is ground to produce a blend wherein no more than about 1.5% of the particles are retained on a U.S. No. 200 Standard Screen. The sugar blend is useful in food products such as frostings and puddings.
Abstract: A method and apparatus for the automatic production, on demand, of solutions of liquid and dry materials, for example, particularly liquid sugar from initial constituents of dry sugar and water, in which a storage supply of solution, such as liquid sugar is available for withdrawl and use, such supply being adapted to be maintained from a mixing station with the bulk materials being supplied in predetermined quantities from a supply station and converted, for example, into liquid sugar by the application of heat, the supply being suitably monitored and replenished and the materials measured and mixed on demand, automatically as required. Other materials may be simultaneously included to form blends etc.
Abstract: Granules are prepared by subjecting a crystalline sugar, a basis, adjuvants and a binder-containing solution to a mixing apparatus, followed by crushing and drying by conventional techniques. The resultant products are characterized by having a uniform granular size, good disintegrating properties, relatively great apparent density and abrasion resistance. The basis comprises at least one member selected from the group of penicillin, tetracycline, movobiocin, kanamycin, paromomycin and midecamycin.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 8, 1974
Date of Patent:
January 13, 1976
Assignee:
Meiji Seika Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Shojiro Ito, Akira Takami, Tokio Takekoshi
Abstract: .[.Method for drying crystallized sugar in the presence of a heated environment, wherein said environment has a relative humidity less than, but close to the equilibrium relative humidity of the sugar to be dried, at the temperature of the environment. This method permits crystallized sugar to be obtained in bright crystals and to exhibit physical characteristics similar to those of products produced by the Adant method, such as hardness, resistance to abrasion, porosity, rate of dissolution, and density..]..Iadd.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 22, 1975
Date of Patent:
February 1, 1977
Assignee:
Raffinerie Tirlemontoise
Inventors:
Georges Francois Duchateau, Paul Joseph Dewulf
Abstract: A process for producing solid sugars wherein separate feeds of sucrose solution and of fine sucrose particles are dispersed in a current of heated air, whereby the particles are coated with the solution which is evaporated leaving a solid product containing substantially all the sugar fed to the process.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 9, 1976
Date of Patent:
May 30, 1978
Assignee:
W. R. Grace & Co.
Inventors:
Preston Leonard Veltman, Johannes C. J. Verdonk, Lars Olav Thomsen