Process for recovery of vegetable protein

Claim 1

IN THE PROCESS FOR RECOVERING VEGETABLE PROTEIN FROM AN AQUEOUS ALKALINE SOLUTION THEREOF, WHICH PROCESS COMPRISES ACIDIFYING THE SOLUTION TO PRECIPITATE THE PROTEIN, AND FILTERING OFF THE PRECIPITATED PROTEIN, THE IMPROVEMENT WHICH COMPRISES ADDING TO THE PROTEIN-CONTAINING LIQUOR, AT ANY TIME PRIOR TO FILTRATION, A HEAVY-METALCONTAINING INORGANIC SALT SUBSTANTIALLY SOLUBLE IN THE ALKALINE SOLUTION OF THE PROTEIN BUT FORMING A GELATINOUS PRECIPITATE IN THE ACID LIQUOR IN WHICH THE PROTEIN IS PRECIPITATED, THE PH OF THE PROTEIN-CONTAINING LIQUOR BEING FROM ABOUT 3.6 TO ABOUT 4.5 DURING FILTRATION. SECTICIDAL ADJUVANT AS A CARRIER THEREFOR, SAID FLUORINATED CHLORINATED CYCLIC TERPENE CONTAINING BOTH CHLORINE AND FLUORINE IN TOTAL AMOUNT WITHIN THE RANGE OF ABOUT 40% TO ABOUT 75%, THE FLUORINE CONTENT BEING ABOUT 2.6% TO ABOUT 5.2% PRODUCED BY SUBSTITUTION OF PART OF THE CHLORINE OF A CHLORINATED CYCLIC TERPENE BY FLUORINE BY FLUORINATION WITH A FLUORINATING AGENT SELECTED FORM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF FLUORINE, HYDROGEN FLUORIDE, AND METAL FLUORIDES IN THE PRESENCE OF A FLUORINATION CATALYST AT A TEMPERATURE BELOW 300* C., SAID CHLORINATION OF A CYCLIC TERPENE WITH PRODUCT OF CHLORINATION OF A CYCLIE TERPENE WITH CHLORINE GAS AT AN ELEVATED TEMPERATURE BELOW THE AT WHICH THE PRODUCT DEXOMPOSES TO A CHLORINE CONTENT OF ABOUT 40% TO 75%.