Method of recovering oil from oil-bearing vegetable matter

US4467713A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Fried Krupp · DE

Inventors

• Manfred Knuth · Hamburg, DE
• Thorsten Homann · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 1, 1982
• Grant date: Aug 28, 1984
• Expiry date: Apr 1, 2002

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C11B1/06
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A method of and an apparatus for recovering oil, especially edible oils, from oil-containing fruit and seed in which immediately upon cleaning the fruit and seed, this oil-bearing material is subjected to cold pressing without prior heat treatment to recover a portion of the oil and the residue is thereupon extracted.