PROCESS FOR IMPROVING DIGESTIBILITY OF FEEDSTUFFS FOR RUMINANT ANIMALS

• US 3,667,961 A
• Filed: 09/22/1967
• Issued: 06/06/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/1967
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John W. Algeo
• Original Assignee: John W. Algeo
• Inventors: Algeo, John W.
• Application Number:
  US04/674,050
• Time in Patent Office: 1,719 Days
• US Class Current: 426/2
• CPC Class Codes: A23K 40/00 Shaping or working-up of animal feeding-stuffs

Abstract

THE INVENTION COMPRISES A RAPID PROCESS AND RELATIVELY ECONOMICAL EQUIPMENT FOR INCREASING NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY OF RUMINANT ANIMAL FEEDSTUFFS, WHICH INCLUDES THE IRREVERSIBLE REARRANGEMENT OF INITIAL MOLECULAR BOND STRUCTURES OF SUCH FEEDSTUFFS TO DIFFERENT MOLECULAR BOND STRUCTURES WITH CONCOMITANT DEGRADATION OF RELATIVELY INDIGESTIBLE MOLECULAR STRUCTURES TO SHORTER CHAIN LENGHT MORE DIGESTIBLE CARBOHYDRATES BY SUBJECTING RUMINANT ANIMAL FEEDSTUFFS IN A CLOSED VESSEL TO HIGH PRESSURE STEAM FOR RELATIVE SHORT TIME INTERVALS AND THEREAFTER RAPIDLY RELEASING THE THUS SUBJECTED FEEDSTUFFS TO ATOMSPHERIC CONDITIONS, TOGETHER WITH MEANS FOR SUCCESSIVELY COLLECTING AND STORING THE THUS SUBJECTED FEEDSTUFFS, AND WHICH ALSO INCLUDES REDUCING IN THE INGESTED RESULTING FEEDSTUFFS OF THE PROPORTION OF ACETIC ACID IN THE RUMEN WHILE INCREASING THE TOTAL STEAM VOLATILE FATTY ACID OUTPUT BY THE RUMEN MICROFLORA.

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