Apparatus for Steaming Wheat and other Grain.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 19th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 26th Jan., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Steaming Wheat and other Grain.
We, JOSEPH THORNTON of Ordsall Iron Works in the County of Nottingham,
Milling Engineer, and CHARLES WEBSTER BOWER of South Wingfield in the
County of Derby, Miller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
Our invention relates to apparatus for steaming wheat and other grain, so
constructed that the steam effects heating and also damping of the grain
immediately before it reaches the breaking rolls. For this purpose, in the shoot
by which the grain descends to the rolls, we place a chamber which tapers down to
an outlet for water of condensation at its bottom, and is shaped at the top like an
overhanging roof. We also provide within the chamber an inner tapering chamber
which extends down from the roof nearly to the bottom. We admit steam into the
space between this inner chamber and the wall of the outer chamber from which
space the steam issues by holes or passages under the projecting eaves of the roof
into the descending grain. Such water, as the steam carries with it or as results
from condensation in the chamber, is separated from it and flows away at the
bottom, only dry steam entering the grain, which is heated in descending over the
roof of the steam chamber.
Dated this 21st day of March 1894.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.
Apparatus for Steaming Wheat and other Grain.
We, JOSEPH THORNTON, of Ordsall Iron Works, in the County of Nottingham,
Milling Engineer, and CHARLES WEBSTER BOWER, of South Wingfield, in the
County of Derby, Miller, 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 :-
Our invention relates to apparatus for steaming wheat and other grain, so
constructed that the steam effects heating and also damping of the grain
immediately before it reaches the breaking rolls. For this purpose, in the shoot B
by which the grain descends to the rolls, we place a chamber D which tapers down
to an outlet F for water of condensation at its bottom, and is shaped at the top
like an overhanging roof.
We also provide a tapering chamber E into which we admit steam by a pipe G
furnished with a suitable regulating valve. From this space steam issues by holes
or passages I under the projecting eaves of the roof into the descending grain.
We also admit steam by passages H into the roof D over which the grain passes.
Such water as the steam carries with it or as results from condensation in the
chamber is separated from it and flows away at the bottom, only dry steam entering
the grain, which is heated in descending over the roof of the steam chamber.

page_text: We prefer to check the descent of the grain by suitable valves so as to maintain
it as long as possible in contact with the steam heated surfaces.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
Apparatus for steaming wheat and other grain constructed and operating
substantially as described and illustrated.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.