Improvements in Apparatus for Drying Washed Wheat or other Cereals.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Nov., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 19th Aug., 1897-Accepted, 25th Sept., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Drying Washed Wheat or other
Cereals.
I, JAMES HIGGINBOTTOM of 32 Seel Street, Liverpool in the County of Lancaster,
Milling Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention is applicable to that class of wheat washing apparatus described in
my Patent No. 13931 of 1895 and its object is to attain a simple and efficient method
of forcing a current of air through the vertical stationary perforated cylinder
described in the above mentioned Patent.
In carrying out my invention, I place a fan in the interior of the vertical
cylinder in such manner that air leaving the said tips is caused to pass by centri-
arms to the spindle of the machine and the fan revolves simultaneously there-
with.
The tips of the blades of the fau are carried nearly to the inside of the stationary
cylinder in such manner that air leaving the said tips is caused to pass by centri-
fugal force through the grain moving over the inner face of the cylinder and
through the perforations of the cylinder to the outside of the machine.
Air is admitted to the fan from the outside of the machine through an aperture
placed preferably in the top of the machine.
Dated this 18th day of November 1896.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Apparatus for Drying Washed Wheat or other
Cereals.
I, JAMES HIGGINBOTTOM of 32 Seel Street, Liverpool in the County of Lancaster,
Milling 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 is applicable to that class of wheat washing apparatus described in
my Patent No. 13931 of 1895 and its object is to attain a simple and efficient method
of forcing a current of air through the vertical stationary porforated cylinder
described in the above mentioned Patent.
In the drawings
Figure is a vertical section showing a fan arranged at the ton of th

page_text: Figure 2 a vertical section showing the fan arrangement attached to the beaters
or whizzers.
In carrying out my invention, I place a fan B in the interior of the vertical
cylinder A preferably at the top of the cylinder. I attach the said fan B by
carrying arms C to the spindle of the machine and the fan revolves simultaneously
therewith.
The tips of the blades of the fan are carried nearly to the inside of the stationary
cylinder in such a manner that air leaving said tips is caused to pass by centri-
fugal force through the grain moving over the inner face of the cylinder and
through the perforations D of the cylinder A to the outside of the machine.
Air is admitted to the fan from the outside of the machine as indicated by the
arrows through an aperture E placed preferably in the top of the machine.
In the modification shown in Figure 2 instead of arranging the fan B on
separate carrying arms, they may be sometimes connected to the beaters or
whizzers as may be found suitable.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The improved apparatus for drying washed wheat or other cereals which
consists of a wheat washing apparatus of the kind described in my l'atent
No. 13931 of 1895 adapted for drying purposes by the arrangement of a fan to
rotate within its vertical perforated cylinder substantially as hereinbefore
described.
2. The improved apparatus for drying washed wheat or other cereals substan-
tially as hereinbefore described with reference to Figure 1 of the accompanying
drawings.
3. The improved apparatus for drying washed wheat or other cereals substan-
tially as hereinbefore described with reference to Figure 2 of the accompanying
drawings.
Poamed this 16th day of August 1891.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham & London, Patent Agents.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham & London, Patent Agents.