improve apparatus for before Malting.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 13th May, 1887
Complete Left, 10th Feb., 1888
Complete Accepted, 13th Apr., 1888
improve apparatus for
before Malting.
I, ROBERT CHARLES CATLING of No. 8 Fenwick Street Hulme Manchester in the
County of Lancashire Consulting Brewer do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WASHING BARLEY OR OTHER GRAIN BEFORE
MALTING to be as follows:-
Whereas the usual custom of Washing Barley or other grain intended to be malted
is simply to put it into a tank with sufficient water to cover it and allow it to steep
some time, agitating it occasionally with a shovel or other manual implement and
renewing the water several times;-The object of this invention is the construction
of an apparatus by which grain intended for malting may be better washed and more
effectually freed from dirt or foreign matter than by the method usually adopted.
My invention consists of a machine made of copper or other suitable material. This
machine consists of two parts the upper part being a cylinder either of a circular or
eliptical form preferably eliptical, jacketted with an outer cylinder forming a reservoir
between the two cylinders, and this reservoir is connected across the diameter of the
inside cylinder by a pipe with a tee piece descending in the centre a short distance
and open at the bottom. The inside cylinder is also perforated with holes. The
Barley or other grain to be washed is allowed to descend by gravitation thro the
inside cylinder & the reservoir between the cylinders being connected with a water
supply, the water is turned on, and it purges thro' the holes of the jacket into the
grain as it descends and a still larger volume of water descends through the T into
the grain, so that the grain is thoroughly wetted. The second part of the machine,
which is also made of copper, brass, or other suitable material can be fixed on
immediately at the bottom of the first part, it consists of a number of paddles set in
two rotary axles, which are kept in work uniformly by being connected with cog
wheels outside the machine. The descending grain & water falling on the paddles
revolve them and cause them to beat the grain about in such a manner that the dirt is
detached & the grain efficiently washed.

page_text: The whole machine is thus automatic from the time the grain & water are turned
on, but where a greater beating of the grain is required, power may be attached to
drive the axles in the opposite direction to that which the grain would turn it
automatically.
Having now described the nature of my said invention and in what manner the
same is to be worked, I declare that what I claim is (1) the Washing of Barley or
other grain intended to be malted, by a machine automatically, substantially as I have
described & (2) I claim the washing of Barley or other grain by a similar machine
but worked by hand or power in the opposite direction to which the revolving parts
would revolve if worked automatically.
Doted this 19th dan of M 1007

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Washing Barley or other Grain
before Malting.
I ROBERT CHARLES CATLING of 8 Fenwick Street Hulme Manchester in the county
of Lancaster, Consulting Brewer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to an Improved Apparatus or Machine made of copper or
other suitable material by which Barley and other grain intended for malting may be
better and more efficiently freed from dirt or foreign matter than by the method
usually employed for washing grain intended to be malted which is simply to put it
into a tank with sufficient water to cover it and allow it to steep some time agitating
it occasionally with a shovel or other manual implement and renewing the water
several times.
In order that my invention may be fully understood and readily carried into effect
I will describe the accompanying two sheets of drawings, reference being had to the
figures and letters marked thereon.
Figure 1 is a side view elevation of the Machine according to my invention.
Figure 2 is a sectional elevation taken at the line A B of figure 3.
Figure 3 is a sectional elevation taken at the line A B of figures 1 and 2.
Figure 4 is a sectional plan taken at the line CD of figures 1 and 2.
Referring to the figures 1 2 3 and 4 "a" represents a cylinder either of a circular
or elliptical form preferably elliptical, jacketted with an inner cylinder "6" forming a
reservoir between round the cylinder, and this reservoir is connected across the diameter
of the inner cylinder by a pipe "c "with a T piece "d" descending in the centre a
short distance & open at the bottom, the inside cylinder is also perforated with holes.
The Barley or other grain to be washed is allowed to descend by gravitation through
the jacketted cylinder "a"; and the cylinder jacket "b" and pipo "c" being connected
with a water supply by connection" e and the water being turned on it purges through
the holes of the cylinder jacket "6" into the grain as it descends and a further large
volume of water descends through the outlet "d" of pipe "c" into the grain and thereby
thoroughly wetting it and all passing through the passage "f" into the second
part "9" of the machine which is also made of copper or other suitable material & so
arranged to be fixed by binding slides "h" immediately at the bottom of the part "a,"
the second part "g" containing two sets of rotary axles "i" and "i1" each having a
number of paddles "j" and the descending grain and water falling on them make them
revolve and cause them to beat the grain about in such a manner that the dirt is
detached and the grain efficiently washed and all passing out at the bottom into the
cistern below. These paddles are arranged to work uniformly one in and one out by
being connected by their respective axles "i" and "i1" through being geared together
by the cog wheels "k" and "1" outside the machine. The whole machine is thus
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page_text: automatic from the time the grain and water enter it, but where a greater beating of
the grain is required one of the axles "i" may be lengthened and a driving pulley for
belt attached to it to drive the axles in the opposite direction to that which the grain
would turn it automatically.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The washing of Barley or other grain intended to be malted by a machino
automatically, substantially as herein described and as illustrated by the accompanying
drawings.
2. The washing of Barley or other grain by a similar machine but worked by hand
or power in the opposite direction to which the revolving parts would revolve if worked
automatically.