IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR DRYING, AIRING, AND WARMING WOVEN FABRICS, BOTTLES, AND OTHER ARTICLES. AND FOR INDICATING THE PRESENCE OF MOISTURE THEREIN AND IN BEDDING." PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Bannehr, of Great Queon Street, in the
City of Westminster, Sanitary Engineer, and Henry Matthews, of
Gower Street, in the County of Middlesex, Analytical Chemist, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR DRYING,
AIRING, AND WARMING WOVEN FABRICS, BOTTLES, AND OTHER ARTICLES. AND
FOR INDICATING THE PRESENCE OF MOISTURE THEREIN AND IN BEDDING."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Bannehr and
Henry Matthews at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 10th July 1869.
We, JAMES BANNEHR, of Great Queen Street, in the City of West-
minster, Sanitary Engineer, and HENRY MATTHEWS, of Gower Street,
in the County of Middlesex, Analytical Chemist, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS

page_text: FOR DRYING, AIRING, AND WARMING WOVEN FABRICS, BOTTLES, AND OTHER ARTICLES.
AND FOR INDICATING THE PRESENCE OF MOISTURE THEREIN AND IN BEDDING,"
to be as follows:-
1
The Invention relates to improvements in means or apparatus for
drying, airing, and warming woven fabrics, bottles, and other articles,
and for indicating the presence of moisture therein and in bedding.
For drying, airing, and warming woven fabrics we employ a close
chamber, in which the woven fabrics are hung or arranged on suitable
lines or suspenders; into this chamber we force heated air or air in its
normal state by means of a fan or other suitable propellor. The air is
warmed by passing in contact with plates or pipes heated by gas or hot
water, or it may be warmed by other suitable means, and is directed into
the chamber at the required angle by means of suitable fixed guides or
deflectors. On or in a convenient outlet we mount a moisture indicator
constructed of catgut or other suitable material passing around pulleys
or connected to other apparatus, so as to give motion to a hand or
pointer, by which means the presence of moisture will act upon the
catgut or other material to expand or contract it, and by so doing give
motion to the hand or pointer. By detaching this indicator it may be
employed to indicate the presence of moisture in bedding.
For drying bottles and other similar articles we employ hollow
standards or supports with tubes projecting therefrom at suitable angles,
and we place the bottles or other articles over the ends of these tubes
and force the air, either warmed or not, through such tubes and into
the bottles or other articles, allowing room for its subsequent escape
into the outer atmosphere.
arranged.
If desired the tubes may be otherwise
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Bannehr and Henry Matthews in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 10th January 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JAMES
BANNEHR, of Great Queen Street, in the City of Westminster, Sanitary
Engineer, and HENRY MATTHEWS, of Gower Street, in the County of
Middlesex, Analytical Chemist, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said James Bannehr and Henry Matthews, Her
special licence that we, the said James Bannehr and Henry Matthews,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
James Bannehr and Henry Matthews, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR DRYING,
AIRING, AND WARMING WOVEN FABRICS, BOTTLES, AND OTHER ARTICLES, AND FOR
INDICATING THE PRESENCE OF MOISTURE THEREIN AND IN BEDDING," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said James Bannehr and Henry
Matthews, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one
of us or them, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said James Banner and Henry
Matthews, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference
being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the letters marked
thereon:-
The Invention relates to improvements in means or apparatus for
drying, airing, and warming woven fabrics, bottles, and other articles,
and for indicating the presence of moisture therein and in bedding.
For drying, airing, and warming woven fabrics or other articles we
employ a close chamber, which may be made of any desired form
or material. In this chamber the woven fabrics or other articles arc
hung or arranged on suitable lines or suspenders, and we force into the
chamber heated air or air in its normal state by means of a fan or other

page_text: suitable propellor. The air is warmed by passing in contact with plates
or pipes heated by gas or hot water, or it may be warmed by other
suitable means, and is directed into the drying chamber at the required
angle by means of suitable fixed guides or deflectors.
In the annexed Drawing, which represents a section of the bottom
part of a drying chamber, a chamber a is formed at the bottom, in
which are arranged a number of hot water pipes 6 for warming the
air which is forced into such chamber through the pipe c, and as it
issues from the chamber a into the drying chamber it is directed at the
requisite angle by means of deflectors d, as shewn, or by other suitable
deflectors.
If desired other warming means may be adopted either in connection
with the drying chamber or separate therefrom, whilst the sides of the
drying chamber may be made double and suitable openings and
deflectors, as shewn in the Drawing, may be connected to the inside
lining. On or in a convenient outlet we mount a moisture indicator
constructed of catgut or other suitable material passing around a pulley
or pulleys giving motion to a hand or pointer, by which means the
presence of moisture will act upon the catgut or other material to
expand or contract it, and by so doing give motion to the hand or
pointer. By detaching this indicator it may be employed to indicate
the presence of moisture in bedding. We have not thought it necessary
to give a Drawing of the moisture indicator, as by the description already
given such will be readily understood.
For drying bottles and other similar articles we employ hollow
standards or supports with tubes projecting therefrom at suitable angles,
or we arrange a number of hollow pegs or tubes around a chamber
projecting at suitable angles from the sides thereof, and on the ends of
these hollow pegs or tubes we place the bottles or other articles to be
dried. These tubes are connected to a main tube, through which the
air, either warmed or not, is forced so as to cause it to pass into the
bottles or other articles, room for its subsequent escape being left around
the 'tubes.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention we would have
it understood that we claim, the peculiar combinations and arrange-
ments of means or apparatus herein described for drying, airing, and

page_text: warming woven fabrics, bottles, and other articles, and for indicating
the presence of moisture therein and in bedding.
In witness whereof, we, the said James Bannehr and Henry
Matthews, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Tenth day
of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy.
(L.S.)
J. BANNEHR.
HENRY MATTHEWS. (c.s.)