A NEW AND IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR DRYING AND GROWING MALT AND ALL OTHER GRAINS, FRUITS, OB VEGETABLES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and
Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, in the Empire
of France, and 10, Sackville Street, Piccadilly, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "A NEW AND IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR DRYING AND GROWING MALT AND ALL OTHER GRAINS, FRUITS,
OB VEGETABLES."-A communication from Joseph Gecmen, residing
at Chicago, in the County of Cook, and State of Illinois, United
States of America.
of France, and 10, Sackville Street, Piccadilly, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "A NEW AND IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR DRYING AND GROWING MALT AND ALL OTHER GRAINS, FRUITS,
OB VEGETABLES."-A communication from Joseph Gecmen, residing
at Chicago, in the County of Cook, and State of Illinois, United
States of America.
Sealed the 19th February 1869, and dated the 31st December 1868.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Henry Adrien Bonneville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition.
and Declaration, on the 31st December 1868, pursuant to the 9th
Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 18,
Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, in the Empire of France, and 10, Sackville
Street, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send
greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "A NEW AND
IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR DRYING AND GROWING MALT AND ALL OTHER GRAINS,
FRUITS, OR VEGETABLES," a communication from Joseph Gecmen, a person
resident at Chicago, in the County of Cook, and State of Illinois,
United States of America, and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant 5
unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters
Patent for the same, and made solemn Declaration that it is a com-
munication.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, do
hereby declare that the following Complete Specification, under my hand
and seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, reference being had
to the accompanying Drawings, and to the letters marked thereon,
that is to say:-
The Invention communicated to me relates to improvements in the
drying and growing of malt and all other grains, fruits, or vegetables.
To enable those skilled in the art to understand how to construct
and use the said Invention, I will proceed to describe the same with
particularity.
Fig. 1 represents a side exterior view of the said Invention; Fig. 2 a
central vertical section of the same, taken at the line x in Fig. 4; Fig. 3
is a similar section, taken at the line y in said Fig. 4; and Fig. 4 is a plan
or top view of the said Invention. Similar letters of reference in the
several Figures denote the same parts of the said Invention.
A represents a suitable enclosing wall of any suitable material, and
of any desired form or height, in the upper part of which is arranged a
series of floors marked B, C, D, E, F, G, said series consisting of any
desired number. Each of said floors is composed of a series of perforated
strips or sections of perforated sheet metal marked b, each of which
sections is supported or pivoted upon the rods a, as shown, so as to be
susceptible of being tipped or tilted up, and thus discharge the malt or
other grain, fruit, or vegetable upon the floor underneath as desired.
Each of the supporting rods a is turned or bent at one end in the form
of a crank, and the said rods a appertaining to each floor have said
cranks attached to a bar H, so that by moving said bars, or either of
them, the corresponding floor will be tilted up by sections or arranged
horizontally as desired. I, J, K, L, M, N, represent levers respectively
attached to said bars H and pivoted in a suitable support, so that said

page_text: sections 6 of the floors may be adjusted by operating said levers, or said
sections may be operated by any other suitable device. O represents a
chute, upon which the malt or other grain, fruits, or vegetables pre-
cipitated from above passes out at the opening P, when properly
prepared, the heat or cold air, or cold or warm water for drying the
same, passing up into the apparatus at the upper end of said chute, as
shown, part passing in below all the floors, as seen at d, and part, when
desired, entering the space R through the passage c, whence it may
enter the apparatus at any point at openings e, f, said openings or either
of them being closed, when desired, by means of a slide or slides S,
which may be moved up and down to open or close said apertures by
means of a rods attached thereto. It will be seen in Fig. 2 that at
alternate sides of the apparatus the alternate floors have an opening to
allow the current of heat or cold air, or cold or warm water, to pass up
from one space to another, as shown by the arrows.
Having described the construction of the said Invention I will now
specify the mode of operation.
The grain or barley, fruit, or vegetable to be dried for malt or other
purposes is introduced at the top and precipitated from one floor to the
one below until all are covered with the proper amount of grain, fruit,
or vegetable. When the grain, fruit, or vegetable upon the lower
floor G is sufficiently dried it is precipitated upon the chute O and goes
out at P. The grain, fruit, or vegetable upon F is then let through
upon G; then that upon E upon F, and so on through the entire series,
fresh grain or other material being admitted to fill the upper floor.
This operation is then repeated as long as desired, and care must be taken
in tilting the floors to tilt the grain, fruit, or vegetable down in the
opposite direction on alternate floors to prevent its dropping down
through the spaces left at one edge to allow the heat or the cold air, or
the cold or warm water to pass up.
Having thus fully described the nature of the said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be carried into effect, I would have it to
be clearly understood that I do not intend to confine myself to the exact
details above enumerated, as these may be modified without departing
from the principle of the said Invention; but what I claim is,
1º. Constructing the perforated floors in separate sections b, arranged
and operating substantially in the manner and for the purposes set forth
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.

page_text: 2°. The arrangement, in combination with the series of floors in the
said apparatus of the space R provided with one or more openings e, f,
for the purpose of allowing the current of heat, or the cold or warm air,
or the cold or warm water to circulate through the said apparatus as
may be desired.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of December,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight.
H. BONNEVILLE. (L.S.)