Improvements in Apparatus for Spreading Grain and other Sub- stances over the Floors of Malt-kilns, Granaries, and like places, and for Removing them therefrom.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 16th May, 1890-Accepted, 26th July, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Spreading Grain and other Sub-
stances over the Floors of Malt-kilns, Granaries, and like places,
and for Removing them therefrom.
1, SIEGFRIED HIRSCHLER, of Worms-on-the-Rhine, in the Empire of Germany,
Maltster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention relates to improvements in the apparatus for removing grain and
other substances from malt-kilns, granaries and like places, forming the subject of a
former Patent dated the 1st April 1889, No. 5548, the object of the present invention
being to adapt the said apparatus to spread the substances evenly over the floor as well
as to remove it therefrom.
For this purpose I attach a number of stirrers to tubes fixed to the endless chains
or bands each of such stirrers consisting of a shank holding a brush and a device
in the form of a single or double plough-share fitted thereon according to whether the
stirrers are to work only in one direction or in both directions.
The removing boards or scrapers are adapted to turn back when moving in one
direction in such a manner as to lay the upper surface of the malt even after the
stirrers have turned it over.
When the floor is to be cleared the apparatus is worked in the opposite directions
when the boards or scrapers remove the material in the manner described in my said
former Patent.
I sometimes employ two series of stirrers arranged at a certain distance one from
the other and caused to move to and fro so that when one series is at the end of the
floor the other is in the middle and vice versa.
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G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Spreading Grain and other Sub-
stances over the Floors of Malt-kilns, Granaries, and like places,
and for Removing them therefrom.
1, SIEGFRIED HIRSCHLER, of Worms-on-the-Rhine, in the Empire of Germany,
Maltster, 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 improvements in the apparatus for removing grain and
other substances from malt-kilns, granaries and like places, forming the subject of
a former patent dated the 1st April 1889, No. 5548, the object of the present invention
being to adapt the said apparatus to spread the substances evenly over the floor as well
as to remove it therefrom.
For this purpose I attach a number of stirrers to tubes fixed to the endless chains
or bands, each of such stirrers consisting of a shank holding a brush and a device in
the form of a single or double ploughshare fitted thereon according to whether the
stirrers are to work only in one direction or in both directions.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe how it
can be carried into effect by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which-
Figures 1 and 2 are sections of two floors of a malt-kiln or the like provided with
apparatuses (shewn in longitudinal elevation) for spreading grain and other substances
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page_text: over the said floors and for removing them therefrom, the said apparatuses being
constructed according to my invention and having one set of stirrers in the form of
single ploughshares.
Figure 3 is a similar view to figure 2 but illustrating the apparatus having two
sets of stirrers in the form of double ploughshares.
Figure 4 is a partial plan of figure 3.
Referring to figures 1 and 2 p, q, r are the stirrers consisting of a shank holding
a brush and a device in the form of a ploughshare and attached to tubes fixed to the
endless chains or bands k, which with the said stirrers move in one direction only as
indicated by the arrows.
The removing boards or scrapers a, b, c, d, etc. are adapted to turn back when
moving in one direction in such a manner as to lay the upper surface of the malt or
other substance even after the stirrers have turned it over.
When the floor is to be cleared the apparatus is worked in the opposite direction
when the boards or scrapers a, b, c, d, etc. remove the material in the manner described
in my said former patent.
I sometimes, as shewn in figures 3 and 4, employ two series of stirrers p, q, r
and p, q, arranged at a distance one from the other and caused to move to and
fro, so that, when one series is at the end of the floor the other is in the middle, and
vice versa when the removing planks occupy the position shewn by the dotted lines
in figure 3.
By these arrangements the malt or other substance becomes thoroughly turned over
with only a few revolutions or to-and-fro movements of the apparatus.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is -
:-
1. The combination with apparatus for removing grain and other substances from
malt-kilns, granaries and like places, of two, three or more rows of stirrers p, q, r
(figures 1 and 2) made in the form of ploughshares, arranged in oblique lines like
the teeth of a harrow and always moving in the same direction over the floor of the
kiln or other plate, or of an arrangement of two sets of stirrers p, q, r and p¹, q', r
(figures 3 and 4) formed like double ploughshares which by being moved to and fro
over the said floor turn the malt over.
Dated the 16th day of May 1890.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.