Title: Molasses feed block for animals and method of making same

Abstract: A high energy feed supplement for animals in the form of a block that is dense, non-porous, hard, and vitreous in nature, the block embodying molasses solids as a primary structural and nutritional constituent, and in general providing the ingredients and advantages of a liquid feed supplement in solid form. According to the method of the invention a liquid body of the molasses feed composition is heated at substantially ambient pressure in a temperature range substantially in excess of the boiling point of water but not so hot as to damage the molasses solids or other heat-vulnerable ingredients such as vitamins, so as to remove a major portion of the water content of the composition without foaming therein, and then the composition is subjected to a vacuum without further temperature increase, and preferably while being allowed to cool so as to further reduce the water content without foaming and thereby conditioning the solids in the molasses so that the composition when subsequently poured into molds quickly solidifies into dense, non-porous, hard, vitreous blocks.

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Inventors: McKenzie, Carl O. (Fullerton, CA, US)

Application Number: 450410
Filing Date: 1974-03-12
Publication_date: 1976-06-01
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Primary Class(es): 426/658 127/29, 127/58, 426/471, 426/515, 426/520, 426/807
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US Patent Ref:

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Other Refs: 205,187630,521

Aug, 1956	AU.
May, 1936	DD.

Primary Examiner: Bernstein, Hiram H.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Gausewitz, Carr & Rothenberg