Improvements in Kilns or Sheds for Drying Bricks, Tiles, and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Mar., 1891
Complete Specification Left. 26th May 1891-Accented. 27th June. 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Kilns or Sheds for Drying Bricks, Tiles, and
the like.
I WILLIAM COOPER of Rathland Terrace Kimmage, in the County of Dublin,
Manager do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object is to provide an improved kiln or shed for drying bricks, tiles, and the
like, whereby clay shaped into bricks, tiles and the like shall have a large portion
of its moisture removed in an efficient and economical manner so as to prepare the
said bricks, tiles, and the like for being burned.
A kiln or shed under my invention has a series of arched chambers for containing
the bricks to be dried, separated by hollow perforated walls, opening at the top to a
transverse main flue leading to a chimney.
Beneath the chambers is a transverse main flue leading from the burning kilns
and provided with openings to the chambers. The chambers are made with raised
floors beneath which are laid exhaust steam pipes and the hollow walls are provided
with suitable supports for carrying the bricks, tiles and the like to be dried.
Dated this 6th day of Mal 1901
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Kilns or Sheds for Drying Bricks. Tiles, and
the like.
I WILLIAM COOPER of Rathland Terrace Kimmage in the County of Dublin
Manager 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 :-
The object is to provide an improved kiln or shed for drying bricks, tiles, and the
like whereby clay shaped into bricks, tiles, and the like, shall have a large portion
of its moisture removed in an efficient and economical manner so as to prepare the
said bricks, tiles, and the like, for being burned.
A kiln or shed under my invention has a series of arched chambers for containing
the bricks to be dried separated by hollow perforated walls opening at the top to a
transverse main flue leading to a chimney. Beneath the chambers is a transverse
main flue leading from the burning kilns and provided with openings to the chambers.
The chambers are made with raised floors beneath which are laid exhaust steam
pipes and the hollow walls are provided with suitable supports for carrying the
bricks, tiles, and the like to be dried.

page_text: the chambers b, and having openings leading therefrom into the said chambers.
The said flueh leads the products of combustion and heated gases from a brick
burning or other kiln into the said chambers b. floors of chambers raised some
distance above the foundations k. I pipes located between the foundations & and
floors, exhaust or waste steam is allowed to pass into the said pipes to allow of it
imparting its heat to the chambers. m, are metallic rods let into the walls c for
carrying trays or shelves on which the bricks to be dried rest. n doors, o dampers
for regulating the outflow from the tops of the chambers. p, dampers for regulating
the inflow at the bottoms. It will be evident that any number of chambers may be
in one block but in practice it is found advantageous to group them in sets of four.
The hollow wall are built of perforated bricks on edge and the arches and top of
cement concrete.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
Kilns or sheds constructed substantially in the manner and for the purpose set
forth.