An Improvement in Apparatus for Drying Animal and other Matters.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Aug., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 26th Apr., 1894-Accepted, 2nd June, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Apparatus for Drying Animal and other
Matters.
We, WILLIAM CLARKE CURRIE, of The Anchorage, Alma Road, Birkdale
In the County of Lancaster, Manure Manufacturer, and WILLIAM ELLISON
ROWLANDS, of Fir Grove, Old Swan, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
Manure Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows
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This invention relates to apparatus of the kind in which an agitator revolves in
a steam heated cylinder charged with animal or other matter which has to be
dried. Our object is to economise first cost and the time and fuel expended in
operating. This we effect by combining the drying cylinder and the boiler in one
structure, the cylinder being entirely enclosed, or enclosed except at the end or
ends, within the boiler. By this arrangement there is little or no loss by radiation
of heat and no necessity for the frequent discharge of water of condensation which
is required when the drying cylinder is steam jacketted in the usual way. For
convenience of discharging the contents of the cylinder, we sometimes carry a
tube from the bottom of the cylinder down through the lower part of the
boiler.
Dated this 28th day of August 1893.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.
An Improvement in Apparatus for Drying Animal and other
Matters.
We, WILLIAM CLARKE CURRIE, of The Anchorage, Alma Road, Birkdale,
in the County of Lancaster, Manure Manufacturer, and WILLIAM ELLISON
ROWLANDS, of Fir Grove, Old Swan, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
Manure Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to apparatus of the kind in which an agitator revolves in
a steam heated cylinder charged with animal or other matter which has to be
dried. Our object is to economise first cost and the time and fuel expended in
operating. This we effect by combining the drying cylinder B and the boiler A
in one structure as shewn diagrainmatically in the accompanying drawing the
cylinder B being entirely enclosed, or enclosed except at the end or ends, within
the boiler A. By this arrangement there is little or no loss by radiation of heat
and no necessity for the frequent discharge of water of condensation which is
required when the drying cylinder is steam jacketted in the usual way. For
convenience of discharging the contents of the cylinder, we sometimes carry a
tube C from the bottom of the cylinder down through the lower part of the
boiler, and when the cylinder is quite enclosed within the boiler we provide tubes
through which the agitator shaft passes to the exterior of the boiler.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
Arranging the cylinder employed for drying animal and other matter within a
boiler, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 26th day of April 1894.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.