An Improvement relating to Pneumatic Malting, and Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Feb., 1896-Accepted, 28th Mar., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement relating to Pneumatic Malting, and Apparatus
therefor.
I, WILLIAM ADLAM, of 1, Ellbroad Street, Bristol, Engineer, do hereby-
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to the pneumatic method of malting grain and
relates particularly to sprinkling water on the grain to promote germination after-
the grain has been a suitable time in the malting vessel.
According to this invention, the water to be sprinkled on the grain is contained
in a tank or reservoir preferably so situated in relation to the malting vessel that
the water may flow, when communication is opened, to the latter by gravitation.
The pipe by which the water is conducted from the tank or reservoir to the
malting vessel is fitted with a stop-cock and is extended into the central perforated
tube of the malting vessel. That part of the pipe which is extended into the said
tube is perforated, and the water is discharged through the perforations in the pipe
into the tube and is sprinkled on the grain. as the tube rotates.
The quantity of water for sprinkling may be measured before being charged.
into the tank or reservoir, or it may be otherwise gauged.
Dated this 21st day of May 1895.
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Bristol, Chartered Patent Agent.
An Improvement relating to Pneumatic Malting, and Apparatus
therefor.
I, WILLIAM ADLAM, of 1, Ellbroad Street, Bristol, 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:-
This invention which has reference to the pneumatic method of malting grain in
cylinders or cases arranged to be rotated when desired, relates particularly to.
sprinkling water on the grain to promote germination after the grain has been a
suitable time in the malting vessel.
According to this invention, the water to be sprinkled on the grain is contained
in a tank or reservoir preferably so situated in relation to the malting vessel that.
the water may flow, when communication is opened, to the latter by gravitation.
The pipe by which the water is conducted from the tank or reservoir to the
malting vessel is fitted with a stop-cock and is extended into the central perforated.
tube of the malting vessel. That part of the pipe which is extended into the said
tube is perforated, and the water is discharged through the perforations in the pipe.
into the tube and is sprinkled on the grain as the malting vessel and tube rotate.
The accompanying drawing illustrates partly in section and partly in elevation.
the improvement relating to pneumatic malting in which this invention consists.

page_text: As is well understood; water is sprinkled at proper times on the grain to promote
germination.
According to this invention the water for sprinkling on the grain is contained in
a tank or reservoir a situated preferably at a higher level than the malting
cylinder b. The quantity charged into the tank may be measured. From the
tank a pipe c is extended down to the malting cylinder band is extended into the
perforated tube d centrally situated in the cylinder. That part of the pipe c which
extends into the tube d of the malting cylinder is perforated. When it is
required to sprinkle water on the grain in the cylinder, the stop-cock e which
controls the communication between the tank a and the malting case bis opened
and the water flows by gravitation in the pipe c. The water escapes through the
perforations in that part of the pipe which is extended into the tube d of the
malting case and is discharged thence through the perforations in the said tube d
and is sprinkled amongst the grain as the case b rotates.
The quantity of water to be sprinkled on the grain may be determined by the
capacity of the tank or it may be measured before being charged into the tank, or
it may be otherwise gauged.
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 :-
In the process of pneumatic malting in cylinders or cases designed for rotation;
apparatus for supplying water to the grain; the said apparatus consisting of a
tank or reservoir such as a, or the equivalent thereof, preferably situated at a
higher level than the malting vessel, and a pipe, fitted with a controlling cock or
valve, extending from the said tank or reservoir and carried into a perforated tube
such as d, the part of the pipe so carried being perforated, substantially as herein-
above described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 14th day of February 1896.
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Bristol, Chartered Patent Agent.