Improved Methods of Utilizing the Waste Products from Breweries, Distilleries, Vineyards, and the like
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 8th July, 1896-Accepted, 21st Sept., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Methods of Utilizing the Waste Products from Breweries,
Distilleries, Vineyards, and the like.
I JAMES BRADBURY of Bury Street Salford Manchester in the County of
Lancashire Wine and Spirit Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
:-
Whereas large quantities of spent hops, grains & the like after being used in the
process of brewing, can be dried & subsequently transformed into useful & market-
able articles, the object of my invention is to first pass the waste products through
a suitable hydro-extractor or dryer the vegetable matters are passed from the
hydro extractor nearly dry & in this state submitted to the air from a calcium
chamber or lime box, the air being impelled thro the chamber or box by a suitable
fau, causing perfect dryness, making the material suitable for litter & in some
cases food for cattle, or a valuable manure either before or after stable use, the
machinery I use to accomplish these purposes consists of suitable feed gear to
hydro extractor, a calcium chamber or lime box as previously referred to & in
some cases in districts where ironfounding prevails I prefer to carbonize the said
waste products in suitable retorts, collect the acid, the gas or the like then grind
the resultant vegetable carbon, using suitable admixtures for light castings or
heavy work.
Dated this 16th day of September 1895.
CHARLES HARRIS,
32 Great Clowes Street, Broughton, Manchester.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Methods of Utilizing the Waste Products from Breweries,
Distilleries, Vineyards, and the like.
I, JAMES BRADBURY of Bury Street Salford Manchester in the County of
Lancashire Wine and Spirit Merchant, 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 :-
Whereas large quantities of spent hops, grains & the like after being used in the
process of brewing, can he dried & subsequently transformed into useful & market-
able articles, the object of my invention is, to first pass the waste products through
a suitable hydro extractor or dryer, the vegetable matters are passed from the
hydro extractor nearly dry & in this state submitted to the air of a calcium
chamber or lime box, the air being impelled through the chamber or box by a
suitable fan, causing perfect dryness, making the material suitable for litter & in
some cases food for cattle, or a valuable manure either before or after stable use,
the machinery I use to accomplish these purposes consists of suitable feed gear to
hydro extractor either worm or ordinary jigger, a calcium chamber or lime box as
previously referred to, & in some cases in districts where ironfounding prevails
I prefer to carbonize the said waste products in suitable retorts collect the acid
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page_text: the gas & the like, then grind the resultant vegetable carbon using suitable
admixtures for light castings or heavy work.
The means by which I accomplish these purposes are shewn by the
accompanying drawings Fig. 1. is a side view & Fig. 2 is an end view.
The waste products are fed into A Fig. 1. or A' Fig. 2. which is the bottom of
an ordinary elevator & carried into hopper B. Fig. or B Fig. 2. thence into
hydro extractor or dryer C. Fig. 1. or C¹ Fig. 2. By the feed gear referred to
the hydro extractor is an open cylinder or drum and revolves in a chamber
through which the heat from the furnaces passes on its way to the flue from D
to E Fig. 1 & D' to E' Fig. 2 the letters represent the passage of heat to flue, by
the revolution of the hydro extractor or dryer the products run into the trough F.
Fig. 1. & F Fig. 2. and are propelled along the trough to G. Fig. 1. & G¹ Fig. 2
by a conveyor G' Fig. 1. & G³ Fig. the fan H. Fig. 1. & H¹ Fig. 2. sending
a current of air which first passes through the calcium chamber or lime box I
Fig. 1. & Fig. 2. this air absorbing any remaining moisture, the materials on
leaving spout G are ready for stable use or the like.
When I prefer to carbonize the waste products, the materials on leaving spout G
are placed in the retorts J. Fig. 1. & J¹ & J2 Fig. 2. the gas resulting being
passed into the furnace by the pipes K. Fig. 1. & K & K Fig. 2 an ordinary
syphon or dip pipe being used at M & M the resultant vegetable carbon being
raked out at L'& Fig. 1. & L³ & L³ Fig. 2. then ground & mixed for
foundry use.
Having described my methods of dealing with the waste products from
breweries distilleries vineyards & the like, & how the same is performed; I
declare that what I claim is :
The production of vegetable carbon from the waste products from breweries
distilleries vineyards & the like.
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CHARLES HARRIS.