IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SHIPS FOR TRANSPORTING GRAIN
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jasper Wetter, of the Firm of Herbert and Company,
Solicitors of Patents, of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer,
for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SHIPS FOR
TRANSPORTING GRAIN." A communication from abroad by Louis Constant
Cheneval, of Compiègne, in the Republic of France, Louis Janssens and
Edmond Bodart, both of Louvain, in the Kingdom of Belgium.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jasper Wetter at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th August 1880.
JASPER WETTER, of the Firm of Herbert and Company, Solicitors of Patents,
of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE CONSTRUCTION OF SHIPS FOR TRANSPORTING GRAIN." A communication
from abroad by Louis Constant Cheneval, of Compiègne, in the Republic of France,
Louis Janssens and Edmond Bodart, both of Louvain, in the Kingdom of Belgium.
The Invention has for its object to avoid or diminish the deterioration of grain
cargoes, and consists in providing means for ventilating the hold of the ship. This
is preferably effected by providing the ship with an inner or false bottom of
punched or perforated sheet metal supported by iron girders in such a manner as
to allow free circulation of air underneath, and by applying ventilators of any
suitable construction for supplying the necessary quantity of air which may be
distributed by a system of pipes arranged underneath the false floor. The hold of
the ship may be divided into partitions, and constructed in a manner analogous to
the silos for storing grain on land. Instead of or in combination with the false
perforated bottom perforated sides or partitions may be established through which
the air is made to pass by ventilators.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Jasper Wetter in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th February
1881.
JASPER WETTER, of the Firm of Herbert and Company, Solicitors of Patents,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer.
THE CONSTRUCTION OF SHIPS FOR TRANSPORTING GRAIN." A communication
from abroad by Louis Constant Cheneval, of Compiègne, in the Republic of France,
Louis Janssens and Edmond Bodart, both of Louvain, in the Kingdom of Belgium.
This Invention has for its object to avoid or diminish the deterioration of grain
cargoes, and consists in providing means for ventilating the hold of the ship. This
is effected by providing the ship with an inner or false bottom of punched or
perforated sheet metal supported by iron girders in such a manner as to allow free
circulation of air underneath, and by applying ventilators of any suitable
construction for supplying the necessary quantity of air which may be distributed
by a system of pipes arranged underneath the false floor.
The hold of the ship may be divided into partitions, and constructed in a manner
analogous to the silos for storing grain on land. Instead of, or in combination with
the false perforated bottom, perforated sides or partitions may be established,
through which the air is made to pass by ventilators.
The accompanying Drawing shows an arrangement embodying this Invention.
Figure 1 being a longitudinal section, and Figure 3 a cross section, while Figure 2
is a plan with the perforated bottom partly removed.
W is the perforated bottom supported by girders u; q and q¹ are two ventilators
a, a¹, b, b¹, c, c',
communicating with the main pipe R through the pipes S and S.
d, d, and e, e', are branch pipes supplied from the main pipe R, and open at the
outer ends.
It is evident that the details of construction may be modified without departing
from the nature of this Invention. The branch pipes may for instance be perforated.
The ventilators may be of any suitable and known type, and placed in any
convenient part of the ship; the pipes S, S', may be placed along the sides of the
ship, and the perforated bottom, instead of being flat, as shown, may be curved
concentrically with the bottom of the ship, so as to save space. Instead of perforated
sheet metal, sieves or strainers, or other suitable distributing apparatus may be used
for admitting the air to the grain or other perishable goods carried by the ship.
CLAIMS.
1. In ships for carrying grain or other perishable goods, the application of a
ventilator or ventilators, and a distributing apparatus for forcing air through the
cargo.
2. In ships for carrying grain or other perishable goods, the application of
perforated sheet metal for false bottoms or partitions, provided with a supply of air,
substantially as and for the purpose described.
3. In ships for carrying grain or other perishable goods, the combination of a
nerforated false bottom W, leaving an air space between itself and the bottom of
J. WETTER. (L.S.)

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jasper Wetter, of the Firm of Herbert and Company,
Solicitors of Patents, of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer,
for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SHIPS FOR
TRANSPORTING GRAIN." A communication from abroad by Louis Constant
Cheneval, of Compiègne, in the Republic of France, Louis Janssens and
Edmond Bodart, both of Louvain, in the Kingdom of Belgium.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jasper Wetter at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th August 1880..
es
JASPER WETTER, of the Firm of Herbert and Company, Solicitors of Patents,
of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer. 'IMPROVEMENTS IN.
THE CONSTRUCTION OF SHIPS FOR TRANSPORTING GRAIN." A communication
from abroad by Louis Constant Cheneval, of Compiègne, in the Republic of France,
Louis Janssens and Edmond Bodart, both of Louvain, in the Kingdom of Belgium.
The Invention has for its object to avoid or diminish the deterioration of grain
cargoes, and consists in providing means for ventilating the hold of the ship. This
is preferably effected by providing the ship with an inner or false bottom of
punched or perforated sheet metal supported by iron girders in such a manner as
to allow free circulation of air underneath, and by applying ventilators of any
suitable construction for supplying the necessary quantity of air which may be
distributed by a system of pipes arranged underneath the false floor. The hold of
the ship may be divided into partitions, and constructed in a manner analogous to
the silos for storing grain on land. Instead of or in combination with the false.
perforated bottom perforated sides or partitions may be established through which
the air is made to pass by ventilators.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent_filed by
the said Jasper Wetter in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th February
1881.
JASPER WETTER, of the Firm of Herbert and Company, Solicitors of Patents,
of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE CONSTRUCTION OF SHIPS FOR TRANSPORTING GRAIN." A communication
from abroad by Louis Constant Cheneval, of Compiègne, in the Republic of France,
Louis Janssens and Edmond Bodart, both of Louvain, in the Kingdom of Belgium.
This Invention has for its object to avoid or diminish the deterioration of grain
cargoes, and consists in providing means for ventilating the hold of the ship. This
is effected by providing the ship with an inner or false bottom of punched or
perforated sheet metal supported by iron girders in such a manner as to allow free
circulation of air underneath, and by applying ventilators of any suitable
construction for supplying the necessary quantity of air which may be distributed
by a system of pipes arranged underneath the false floor.
The hold of the ship may be divided into partitions, and constructed in a manner
analogous to the silos for storing grain on land. Instead of, or in combination with
the false perforated bottom, perforated sides or partitions may be established,
through which the air is made to pass by ventilators.
The accompanying Drawing shows an arrangement embodying this Invention.
Figure 1 being a longitudinal section, and Figure 3 a cross section, while Figure 2
is a plan with the perforated bottom partly removed.
W is the perforated bottom supported by girders u; q and q¹ are two ventilators
communicating with the main pipe R through the pipes S and S. a, a, b, b, c, c',
d, d, and e, e¹, are branch pipes supplied from the main pipe R, and open at the
outer ends.
It is evident that the details of construction may be modified without departing
from the nature of this Invention. The branch pipes may for instance be perforated.
The ventilators may be of any suitable and known type, and placed in any
convenient part of the ship; the pipes S, S', may be placed along the sides of the
ship, and the perforated bottom, instead of being flat, as shown, may be curved
concentrically with the bottom of the ship, so as to save space. Instead of perforated
sheet metal, sieves or strainers, or other suitable distributing apparatus may be used
for admitting the air to the grain or other perishable goods carried by the ship.
CLAIMS.
1. In ships for carrying grain or other perishable goods, the application of a
ventilator or ventilators, and a distributing apparatus for forcing air through the
cargo.
2. In ships for carrying grain or other perishable goods, the application of
perforated sheet metal for false bottoms or partitions, provided with a supply of air,
substantially as and for the purpose described.
3. In ships for carrying grain or other perishable goods, the combination of a