Method for manufacturing shortening

Claim 1

THE METHOD OF CONVERTING LARD INTO A HIGH-RATIO SHORTENING WHICH COMPRISES CONTINUOUSLY INDTRODUCING THE LARD INTO A CLOSED SYSTEM AS A FLOWING STREAM AND, WHILE IN SAID CLOSED SYSTEM, PERFORMING THE FOLLOWING STEPS SUCCESSIVELY, NAMELY, MIXING A GAS WITH A STREAM OF MOLTEN LARD, PUMPING MOLTEN LARD-GAS MIXTURE INTO A COOLING WORM AT HIGH PRESSURE, PASSING THE LARD-GAS MIXTURE THROUGH A CHILLING VESSEL AT HIGH PRESSURE AND SUBJECTING IT TO AGITATION AS IT PASSES THROUGH THE CHILLING VESSEL, SAID LARD-GAS MIXTURE BEING REDUCED IN TEMPERATURE WITHIN THE CHILLING VESSEL TO SUCH AN EXTENT THAT IT LOSES ITS LIQUIDITY AND IS REDUCED TO THE VISCOSITY OF A FREE-FLOWING PASTE, FORMING A MIXTURE OF OIL AND ANIMAL PHOSPHATIDES, COLLOIDALIZING THE MIXTURE TO FORM A SMOOTH DISPERSION, KEEPING THE DISPERSION COOL, PUMPING THE COOK DISPERSION TO FORM A FLOWING STREAM, THE VOLUMETRIC RATE-OF-FLOW OF WHICH IS PRECISELY PROPORTIONATE, AT SELECTED RATIO, TO THE VOLUMETRIC RATE-OF-FLOW OF THE LARD-GAS MIXTURE INTO THE COOLING WORM, INJECTING THE PROPORTIONED FLOW OF THE DISPERSION AT HIGH PRESSURE INTO THE FLOWING STREAM OF THE LARD-GAS MIXTURE, TRANSMITTING THE COMBINED DISPERSION AND LARD-GAS MIXTURE THROUGH AN EXTRUSION CHAMBER IN WHICH THE STREAM IS RENDERED TURBULENT, PASSING THE DISPERSION-LARD-GAS MIXTURE THROUGH A FIRST AGITATOR AT HIGH PRESSURE TO PRODUCE A SUBSTANTIALLY SMOOTH MIXTURE, AND PASSING THE DISPERSION-MIXTURE THROUGH A SECOND AGITATOR TO PRODUCE A SMOOTHLY BLENDED SHORTENING.

Claim 2

THE METHOD OF CONVERTING LARD INTO A HIGH-RATIO SHORTENING WHICH COMPRISES CONTINUOUSLY INDTRODUCING THE LARD INTO A CLOSED SYSTEM AS A FLOWING STREAM AND, WHILE IN SAID CLOSED SYSTEM, PERFORMING THE FOLLOWING STEPS SUCCESSIVELY, NAMELY, MIXING A GAS WITH A STREAM OF MOLTEN LARD, PUMPING MOLTEN LARD-GAS MIXTURE INTO A COOLING WORM AT HIGH PRESSURE, PASSING THE LARD-GAS MIXTURE THROUGH A CHILLING VESSEL AT HIGH PRESSURE AND SUBJECTING IT TO AGITATION AS IT PASSES THROUGH THE CHILLING VESSEL, SAID LARD-GAS MIXTURE BEING REDUCED IN TEMPERATURE WITHIN THE CHILLING VESSEL TO SUCH AN EXTENT THAT IT LOSES ITS LIQUIDITY AND IS REDUCED TO THE VISCOSITY OF A FREE-FLOWING PASTE, FORMING A MIXTURE OF OIL AND ANIMAL PHOSPHATIDES, COLLOIDALIZING THE MIXTURE TO FORM A SMOOTH DISPERSION, KEEPING THE DISPERSION COOL, PUMPING THE COOK DISPERSION TO FORM A FLOWING STREAM, THE VOLUMETRIC RATE-OF-FLOW OF WHICH IS PRECISELY PROPORTIONATE, AT SELECTED RATIO, TO THE VOLUMETRIC RATE-OF-FLOW OF THE LARD-GAS MIXTURE INTO THE COOLING WORM, INJECTING THE PROPORTIONED FLOW OF THE DISPERSION AT HIGH PRESSURE INTO THE FLOWING STREAM OF THE LARD-GAS MIXTURE, TRANSMITTING THE COMBINED DISPERSION AND LARD-GAS MIXTURE THROUGH AN EXTRUSION CHAMBER IN WHICH THE STREAM IS RENDERED TURBULENT, PASSING THE DISPERSION-LARD-GAS MIXTURE THROUGH A FIRST AGITATOR AT HIGH PRESSURE TO PRODUCE A SUBSTANTIALLY SMOOTH MIXTURE, AND PASSING THE DISPERSION-MIXTURE THROUGH A SECOND AGITATOR TO PRODUCE A SMOOTHLY BLENDED SHORTENING.