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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 1994
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Frederic A Graves, Ham Lake, MN (US);
Assignee:
Humanetics Corporation, Chaska, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08B / ; C07H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
536-2 ; 536124 ; 426577 ;
Abstract
An environmentally-friendly process for producing a low-cost, crude, human-consumable, pectic material containing fiber which includes the steps of (i) reacting an aqueous slurry of an edible fiber with an alkaline earth metal electrolyte, (ii) separating the slurry into a pectin-rich solid fraction and a pectin-poor liquid fraction, (iii) passing the fiber through an ion exchange column to exchanging H.sup.- ions for the previously added alkaline earth metal ions on the pectin component of the fiber, and (iv) drying the fiber.