Improvements in and in Apparatus for Drying Casks, Barrels and the like Vessels.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and in Apparatus for Drying Casks, Barrels
and the like Vessels.
I, DANIEL GEORGE MARTENS, of Christiania, Norway, at present residing at
Roselands, Broom Road, Teddington, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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The object of this invention is to thoroughly dry the interior of casks, barrels,
and the like vessels. To this end I provide means or apparatus whereby the
casks or vessels under treatment are subjected to a revolving motion around
a fixed centre with their bung holes at the periphery of the circle of revolution,
and heated air is automatically admitted into them during the revolution.
The apparatus comprises a frame or cage adapted to receive any suitable
number of casks stood on end with the bung holes on the outer side. This
frame or cage is mounted to rotate on a fixed verticale tube, to which heated
air is supplied from any convenient source, and is fitted with an annular
chamber surrounding the vertical tube into which the heated air is admitted and
whence it passes through conduits in radial arms to downwardly depending tubes
situated so as to enter the tap holes of the respective casks on the rotating
frame or cage.
These tubes are slotted or perforated at the side nearest the
centre of revolution, so as to discharge the air against the inner wall or surface
of the cask, i.e. furthest away from the bunghole.
In the conduits in the radial arms aforementioned are situated valves con-
nected to a sleeve or piece rotating with the cage or frame and fitted with
governor balls or like means for automatically opening the valves by the rotation
of the cage or frame.
The casks are placed between top and bottom radial arms forming part of
the cage or frame, and are fixed in position by raising the weighted' end of
a lever, whose other end is linked to a collar sliding on the central fixed tube.
This collar is linked to the upper part of the cage or frame carrying the annular
chamber and the top radial arms and the air pipes and conduits connected
therewith, and as this collar is lowered the plate in which the air conduits are
made is brought down into air-tight engagement with the tops and upper
edges of the respective casks.
The revolution of the cage or frame will raise the weighted levers which
are so made as to act as wedges between the sides of adjacent casks placed on
the cage or frame, and the centrifugal action will cause any water in the casks
to be displaced through the bung holes and the partial vacuum thereby produced
in the interior of the casks will draw in the hot air from the central tubes.
01.1
November 1899
F. W. GOLBY,
Patent Agent, 36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in and in Apparatus for Drying Casks, Barrels
and the like Vessels.
I, DANIEL GEORGE MARTENS, of Christiania, Norway, formerly of Roselands,
Broom Road, Teddington, in the County of Middlesex, at present residing at
1, Sussex Road, Colchester, in the County of Essex, England, Engineer, 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:-
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The object of this 'invention is to thoroughly dry the interior of casks, barrels,
and the like vessels. To this end I provide means or apparatus whereby the
casks or vessels under treatment are subjected to a revolving motion around
a fixed centre with their bung holes at the periphery of the circle of revolution,
and heated air is automatically admitted into them during the revolution.
The apparatus, which is illustrated in sectional elevation in the accompanying
drawing, comprises a frame or cage adapted to receive any suitable number of
casks M stood on end with the bung holes m on the outer side. This frame or
cage is secured to a sleeve B₁ which is mounted to rotate on a fixed vertical
tube B, to which tube heated air is supplied from any convenient source through
the conduit pipe C. On a feather on the sleeve B¹ is fitted an annular chamber D
surrounding the upper end of the vertical tube B into which chamber D
the heated air is admitted, through the ports E and E' in the tube B and
sleeve B respectively, and from whence it passes through conduits f in radial
arms F to downwardly depending tubes f¹. These tubes f¹ may be formed on
or secured to the outer ends of the radial arms F, but are preferably secured to
loose plates N which are laid on the uppermost head of the cask with the tube f¹
passed through the tap hole, the said plate N being firmly held in place by the
outer ends of the radial arms F as shown. Similar loose plates N1 are laid on
the undermost cask head and are held in place by the bottom or base plate A
fast on the sleeve B¹. The tubes f¹ are slotted or perforated at the side nearest
the centre of revolution, i.e. nearest the sleeve B₁, so as to discharge the air
against the inner wall or surface of the cask i.e. against that wall which lies
furthest away from the bunghole m.
In each conduit f, in the top radial arms F, is a valve G connected, through
the medium of a link H and weighted arm J, to a sleeve or piece H rotating
with the cage or frame and fitted with weights J or like means for automatically
opening the valves by the rotation of the cage or frame.
The casks M are placed between the top radial arm F and the base plate A
forming part of the cage or frame, and are fixed in position by raising the
weighted end of a lever K, whose opposite end is linked to a collar L sliding on
the sleeve B on the central fixed tube B. This collar L is linked to the annular
chamber D, which carries the top radial arm F and the air pipes f and conduits f¹
connected therewith, and as this collar L is lowered the annular chamber D,
and radial arms F are brought down into air-tight engagement with the
plates N or with the tops and upper edges of the respective casks.
The revolution of the cage or frame will raise the weighted levers K and so
fix the top plates N tightly against the casks M and will also open the valves G
thereby allowing the heated air issuing from the central tube B to pass through
the annular chamber D and conduits f to the downwardly depending tubes fl.
The centrifugal action will cause any water in the casks to be displaced
through the bungholes m and the partial vacuum thereby produced in the
interior of the casks will draw in the hot air from the central tubes.

page_text: 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:-
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1. Drying casks barrels and the like vessels by means or apparatus whereby
they are subjected to a revolving motion around a fixed centre with their bung-
holes at the periphery of the circle of revolution, automatically admitting heated
air into them during the revolution from the fixed central tube on which the
apparatus revolves, the parts being arranged and combined to operate substan-
tially in the manner and for the purpose herein before set forth and illustrated
in the accompanying drawing.
2. Apparatus for drying casks, barrels and the like vessels comprising a frame
mounted to rotate on a fixed hot air supply tube and having top radial arms
and a base plate to hold the casks or vessels, an annular chamber formed in
one with or secured to the upper radial arms, conduits in said upper radial
arms supplying the hot air to pipes passed through the tap hole of the cask or.
like vessel, with means for automatically holding the top radial arms down on
the top of the casks or vessels, and means for automatically admitting the hot
air to the casks or vessels, substantially as described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings and for the purposes stated.
3. In apparatus of the kind indicated in the preceding claim, a top plate for
the cask carrying an air pine open at its upper end and perforated on its rear
side, which top plate is held in position by the ton radial arm of the rotating
frame and through which pipe the hot-air passes from the conduits in the top
radial arm and is discharged through the rear perforations on the adjacent inner
side of the cask fixed in the rotating frame, substantially as described and
illustrated and for the purpose stated.
Dated this 21st day of August 1900.
F. W. GOLBY,
Patent Agent, 36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.