A SELF-ACTING PEA KILN, OR APPARATUS FOR MOVING GRAIN, PULSE, SEEDS, MALT, OR ANY SIMILAR SUBSTANCES WHILE DRYING, WHICH ENSURES A MORE RAPID DESICCATION AND REQUIRES SCARCELY ANY OF THE MANUAL LABOR NOW EMPLOYED IN KILNS, T BE PROPELLED BY STEAM, WATER, OR HORSE POWER
Year: 1852

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Joseph Slatteric Edwards
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 16th November 1852.
(Void by reason of notice to proceed not having been given within
the time prescribed by the Act.)
I, JOSEPII SLATTERIE EDWARDS, Corn and Flour Factor, Albion
Mills, 233 & 234, Blackfriars' Road, London, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "A SELF-ACTING PEA KILN, OR
APPARATUS FOR MOVING GRAIN, PULSE, SEEDS, MALT, OR ANY SIMILAR
SUBSTANCES WHILE DRYING, WHICH ENSURES A MORE RAPID DESICCATION AND
REQUIRES SCARCELY ANY OF THE MANUAL LABOR NOW EMPLOYED IN KILNS, T
BE PROPELLED BY STEAM, WATER, OR HORSE POWER," to be as follows:-
Instead of one or two floors made of wire, perforated plates,
tiles, or other materials, laid on metal or other bearings hori
zontally, and fixed to the walls on which grain is now usually
dried, and which, during the drying, requires frequent turning by
men, I place two, three, four, or more such floors or trays of
an oblong shape in a slanting or inclined plane position, one above
another, so that the lower end of each floor rests just above the

page_text: upper end of the floor 'below, and at the lower end of cach floor
(excepting the last or bottom one), I leave a sufficient space for
the grain, &c. to slide or pass through from one floor to another,
and so on to the bottom or last floor; and,thère I so arrange that
the grain, &c. slides or passes. into a hopper or receiver, either
inside or outside the kiln, and in this receiver I cause an clevating
apparatus to revolve, which lifts the grain, and conveys it to the
top of the kiln again, and there either turns it over at once on to
_the_top_floor_of_the_kiln, or clse into a hopper that it may_pass
more regularly down from floor to floor and up to the top again,
till it becomes as dry as is required by the frequent passing up and
down.
To prevent the grain hanging on the floors, and so impede the
passage from one floor to another, I arrange that each floor, if
required, shall receive a vibratory or shaking motion by means of
an upright shaft of iron passing through the floors, and having
thercon-beaters,. or. some such contrivance, to cause suchi amove-
ment (or by some such method I effect this object).;.if necessary
also I suspend the floors or trays, and leave a space between the
walls for additional room for such shaking or vibratory movement.
This plan of constructing kilns I believe to be applicable to all
modes of heating them.-.
The novelty of my Invention consists of placing, fixing, or-
suspending floors or trays in kilns or heated chambers för drying
purposes, in a slanting or inclined plane position; and for sliding or
turning the grain, &c., from floor to floor, and from the top to the
bottom of the kiln and up to the top, so that it may-pass through
and through again without much, if any, manual labour.