IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE GERMINATION OF GRAIN, THE MANUFACTURE OF MALT, AND THE DRYING OF CORN, FRUITS, PEAT, AND OTHER SUBSTANCES
Year: 1874

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Lloyd Wise at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
10th April 1874.
I, WILLIAM LLOYD WISE, of Chandos Chambers, Adelphi, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE GERMINATION OF
GRAIN, THE MANUFACTURE OF MALT, AND THE DRYING OF CORN, FRUITS, PEAT,
AND OTHER SUBSTANCES," (a communication to me from abroad by Jacob
Sbořil, of Vienna, Austria, Iron Merchant,) to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for the
germination of grain, the manufacture of malt, and the drying of corn,
fruits, peat, and other substances, and has reference to apparatus con-
structed with compound shelves or stages composed of separato parts
capable of being turned or tilted, so that the substances under treatment
may by tilting the parts of the shelves or stages be dropped from the
one shelf or stage on to the next lower one, and so on, such shelves or
stages being arranged within a chamber through which air suitably.
heated when required may be caused to ascend for drying or acting upon
the substances under treatment.

page_text: According to this Invention each shelf or stage is composed of a
series of troughs or gutter-shaped vessels, one of the lateral parts of
cach trough or vessel being made to slightly overlap the lateral edge
of the adjoining trough or vessel so as to form covers, which, while
allowing of the necessary tilting motion and ascent of air, prevent any
of the grain or substance under treatment falling between the troughs
or vessels when they are not tilted. Theso troughs or vessels are
provided with pivots or axles at their respective ends, the centre of
gravity of each trough or vessel when charged being in or near the axis
of rotation. The troughs or vessels of.cach shelf or stage are arranged
opposite to the spaces between those of the shelf or stage next below,
and with their overlapping lateral parts in the contrary direction to
those of such lower shelf or stage. When used for drying purposes the
troughs or vessels are perforated, but not when intended only for
germinating.
The whole of the troughs or vessels composing each shelf are tilted in
one and the same direction, and this direction is in each shelf contrary
to that of the shelf below, so as to obviate any excessive accumulation
of grain or substance under treatment at either side of the apparatus.
Tho tilting may be effected by providing the pivots or axles of the
troughs or vessels with cranks, which may be worked through bars or
rods actuated through arms or tappets and by springs; but this arrange-
ment may obviously be modified to suit circumstances so long as a
sudden tilting movement be imparted to the troughs or vessels as
required; the return motion may be a gradual one, the object being to
bodily overturn the contents of the tilted troughs or vessels into the
troughs or vessels of the next lower shelf or stage.
The apparatus may be worked by manual or other power.
may
The grain or substance to be treated is fed by any suitable means to
For this purpose' it
the uppermost shelf or stage.
in some cases
be found convenient to use a filling truck divided into as many com-
partments as there are troughs or vessels in the uppermost shelf or
stage and arranged to travel over and charge them.
The substances to be germinated or dried having been fed to the
upper shelf or stage will be tilted in due course on to the next lower
shelf or stage, and so on from one to the other at properly regulated
intervals until they finally reach the lowest shelf or stage, from tho

page_text: troughs or vessels of which the germinating or drying substances are
thrown upon an inclined plane or grate. Below this damp, warm, or
dry air is produced according to the purposes for which tho substances
are to be used. This air in ascending through the spaces in and about
the inclined plane or grate and shelves or stages acts upon the grain or
substances under treatment and leaves the apparatus by an opening or
chimney provided for the purpose."
The dried or germinated grain or substances are taken out of the.
apparatus at the bottom of the inclined plane or grate.
For treating materials like fruit, peat, et cætera, the shelves or stages
may in some cases be inclined so that tho troughs or vessels of each
row shall overlap the spaces between those of the next lower row.
Separate deflectors may be arranged to overlap the spaces between tho
troughs or vessels.
By the use of apparatus according to this Invention grain and other
substances may be economically and efficiently treated in a small space
with comparatively little labor and without the injury to the health
of those employed which arises in ordinary malt drying kilns and
germinating cellars.
The apparatus is also simple in construction, and may be made very
portable