IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS, AND PROALATION
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Perkin of Northernden in the County of
Cheshire, Farmer, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS, AND
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Perkin at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th May 1883.
CHARLES PERKIN, of Northernden in the County of Cheshire, Farmer,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS AND MEANS FOR PURIFYING MILDEWED OR
MUSTY HAY OR FODDER
"
The object of the improvements is to reclaim and make fit for cattle food hay or
other fodder which is mildewed or musty, by purifying the same, which hay and
other fodder at the present time is to a great extent wasted.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements I make use of steam under
pressure, by preference for the sake of convenience, obtained from a portable steam
boiler, which can be taken to the stack of hay or other fodder to be operated.
upon.
To the steam boiler I attach at any convenient point a pipe fitted with a suitable
valve or tap for the purpose of conveying steam to the stack of hay or other
fodder. I insert a sufficient length of such pipe within the stack at the most
convenient point for distributing the steam equally throughout the entire mass.-
For which purpose the portion of the pipe within the stack is perforated in
various directions, by which means jets of steam are projected in so many ways as.
to ensure the destruction of the fungoid growths forming the mildew upon the
hay or other fodder-The moisture is then allowed to evaporate in a natural
manner.
Various modifications may be made in detail without departing from the
Invention, as more than one system of pipes may be used at once or the one system
may be provided with branches or the end of the pipe within the stack may be
fitted with a rose.-Such detail arrangement being for the most part dependent
on the size and condition of the stack of hay or other fodder to be acted upon.
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Charles Perkin in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th November
1883.
CHARLES PERKIN of Northenden in the County of Cheshire. Farmer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS AND MEANS FOR PURIFYING MILDEWED OR
MUSTY HAY OR FODDER
"
The object of the improvements is to reclaim, and make fit for cattle food, hay or
other fodder, which is mildewed or musty, by purifying the same, which hay or
other fodder at the present time is to a great extent wasted.
To accomplish this, and to effect my improvements, I make use of steam under
pressure, by preference-for the sake of convenience-obtained from a portable
steam boiler, which can be taken to the stack of hay, or other fodder, to be operated
upon.
To the steam boiler I attach, at any convenient point, a pipe, fitted with a
suitable valve or tap for the purpose of conveying steam to the stack of hay or
other fodder.
I insert a sufficient length of such pipe within the stack at the most convenient
point for distributing the steam equally throughout the entire mass. For which
purpose, the portion of the pipe within the stack is perforated in various
directions, by which means, jets of steam are projected in so many ways, as to
ensure the destruction of the fungoid growths forming the mildew upon the hay or
other fodder. The moisture is then allowed to evaporate in a natural manner.
Various modifications may be made in detail without departing from the
invention, as more than one system of pipes may be used at once, or the one
system may be provided with branches, or the end of the pipe within the stack
may be fitted with a rose. Such detail arrangement being for the most part
dependent on the size and condition of the stack of bay or other fodder to be acted
upon.
But that the improvements may be better understood, I will, by the aid of the
accompanying drawings proceed more fully to describe means employed by me.

page_text: The steam may be carried in any convenient way to the pipes inserted within
the stack, and by means of either rigid or flexible pipes. Suitable valves or taps
are placed at convenient places for the purpose of shutting off and letting on steam
as desired.
Having now described my improvements, and means adopt in carrying the
same into effect, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to the
precise details shewn and described, as variations may be made, without departing
from the peculiar character of the invention.
But what I do claim is :-
The use of pipes or conveyers with suitable openings therein for the carrying
of steam within stacks of hay or other fodder, for the purpose of the purification
of the same when mildewed or musty, substantially as shewn and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Perkin have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this twenty-sixth day of November, in the year of our Lord Oue
thousand, eight hundred, and eighty-three.