IMPROVEMENTS IN MALTING APPARATUS
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frank Wirth, of the Firm of Wirth and Company,
Patent Solicitors, at Frankfort-on-the-Main, in the Empire of Germany,
for the Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN MALTING APPARATUS." A com-
munication from Marx and Company, Mannheim, in the Empire of Germany.
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Sealed the 8th October 1878, and dated the 13th April 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frank Wirth at the Office'
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th April 1878.
FRANK WIRTH, of the Firm of Wirth and Company, Patent Solicitors, at
Frankfort-on-the-Main, in the Empire of Germany. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MALTING
APPARATUS." [A communication from Marx and Company, of Mannheim, in the
Empire of Germany.]
This Invention consists in an improved apparatus for turning barley in germi-
nating floors and malt kilus.
The said apparatus is shewn in the accompanying Drawing, in which,-
Figure 1 is a horizontal section on the line C, D, Figure 2; and Figure 2, a sec-
tional view through the line A, B, Figure 1.
The softened barley is placed on the first germinating plate a, which at the
proper time is withdrawn by means of a toothed bar and pinion or by any other
suitable means, thus causing the grains to fall upon the next plate. On the plate a
being moved back again into its original position the downwardly bent end c
serves to smooth out or spread evenly the grains that may have fallen in heaps.
A germinating apparatus, which is turned three times a day, consists of twenty
plates; a suitable malt kiln for the same apparatus constructed according to my
said Invention would have to be turned four times a day, the finished malt being
removed each time; 3 x 1,500=4,500 kilogrammes of barley can be malted by an
apparatus of 9 & 6 meters with thirty floors, the same being turned three times a
day.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Frank Wirth in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th October
1878.
FRANK WIRTH, of the Firm of Wirth and Company, Patent Solicitors, at
Frankfort-on-the-Main, in the Empire of Germany. * IMPROVEMENTS IN MALTING
APPARATUS." A communication from Marx and Company, of Mannheim, in the
Empire of Germany.
This Invention relates to an improved apparatus for turning barley in germi-
nating floors and malt kilns.
The said apparatus is shewn in the accompanying Drawing, in which,―
Figure 1 is a horizontal section on the line C, D, Figure 2; and Figure 2 is a
vertical section on the line A, B, in Figure 1.
The said apparatus is provided with a series of germinating plates a, arranged to
move on wheels under the partition plates b.
In using this apparatus the softened barley is placed on the first germinating
plate a, which at the proper time is withdrawn or moved under the partition b by
means of a toothed bar and pinion, or by other suitable means, thus causing the
grains to fall upon the next germinating plate. On the plate a being moved back
again into its original position its downwardly bent end c serves to smooth out or
spread evenly the grains that may have fallen in a heap.
A germinating apparatus, which is turned three times a day, consists of twenty
plates, a suitable malt kiln for the same apparatus constructed according to my said
Invention would have to be turned four times a day, the finished inalt being
removed at each turn; 3 x 1,500 4,500 kilogrammes of barley can be malted by
an apparatus of 9×6 meters with thirty floors, the same being turned three times
a day.
Having thus fully described the said Invention, and the manner of performing
the same, I wish it understood that I claim, the malting or germinating apparatus,
as shewn in the accompanying Drawing, provided with the plates, so arranged that
one or more of such plates can be withdrawn, and the grain allowed to fall on the
next plate, and which plates are formed with a bent end, all as and for the purpose
set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frank Wirth, havo hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Seventh day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.