EQUIPMENT FOR CONVERTING THE PHYSICAL AND COMPLEX MOLECULAR BOND STRUCTURES OF NATURAL FEEDSTUFFS FOR RUMINANT ANIMALS TO DIFFERENT AND LESS COMPLEX MOLECULAR BOND STRUCTURES THEREOF

• US 3,817,786 A
• Filed: 09/17/1971
• Issued: 06/18/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/1967
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Algeo J
• Original Assignee: Algeo J
• Inventors: ALGEO J
• Application Number:
  US05/181,419
• Time in Patent Office: 1,005 Days
• US Class Current: 127/1
• CPC Class Codes: A23K 40/00 Shaping or working-up of animal feeding-stuffs
• CPC Class Codes: A23N 17/00 Apparatus specially adapted for preparing animal feeding-stuffs automatic devices for the distribution of liquid fodder for stock or game A01K5/0216; sucking apparatus for young stock A01K9/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 426/807 Poultry or ruminant feed

Abstract

ECONOMICAL EQUIPMENT FOR EFFECTING THE CONVERSION OF THE MOLECULAR BOND STRUCTURES OF RUMINANT ANIMAL FEEDSTUFFS TO DIFFERENT LESS COMPLEX MOLECULAR BOND STRUCTURES WITH CONCOMIATNT DEGRADATION OF RELATIVELY INGESTIBLE MOLECULAR STRUCTURES TO SHORTER CHAIN LENGTH MORE DIGESTIBLE CARBOHYDRATES; THE MOLECULARLY REARRANGED END PRODUCTS HAVING THE UNIQUE CAPACITY OF BENEFICALLY STIMULATING RUMEN MICROFLORAL METABOLISM TO PRODUCE INCREASED LEVELS OF STREAM VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS HAVING A MORE BENEFICIAL PROPORTION OF PROPRIONIC AND HIGHER MOLECULAR WEIGHT FATTY ACIDS. THE EQUIPMENT COMPRISES A CLOSED PRESSURE VELLEL INTO WHICH A QUANTITY OF RUMINANT ANIMAL FEEDSTUFF IS INTRODUCED AND CONFINED IN AN AREA OF PREDETERMINED SIZE AND INTO WHICH STEAM UNDER HIGH PRESSURE AT HIGH TEMPERATURE IS DELIVERED ONTO THE CONFINED FEEDSTUFF TO SATURATED THE SAME, WITH A RESTRICTED OUTLET THROUGH WHICH THE CONFINED SATURATED FEEDSTUFF IS EXPLOSIVELY EJECTED TO AMBIENT PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE UPON THE EXPIRATION OF A PREDETERMINED TIME INTERVAL OF STREAM SATURATION.

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