IMPROVEMENTS IN BINS AND GRANARIES OR HOLDERS FOR CORN AND GRAIN, AND IN BRICKS FOR BUILDING. THE SAME AND OTHER STRUCTURES
Year: 1870

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Eugene Pavy at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th July 1870.-A communication from abroad by Emile Pavy,
of Chateau du Claveau, near Mezières (Indre) in the French
Empire.
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I, HENRY EUGENE PAVY, of Rue du Bac, Paris, in the French
Empire, and at present temporarily of Spur Street, Leicester Square, in
the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BINS AND GRANARIES OR
HOLDERS FOR CORN AND GRAIN, AND IN BRICKS FOR BUILDING. THE SAME AND
OTHER STRUCTURES," communicated to me from abroad by Emile Pavy,
of Chateau du Claveau, near Mezières (Indre), in the French Empire,
to be as follows :-
The main object of this Invention is an improved bin, granary, or
holder for corn and grain, so contrived that the contents may be drawn
off in measured quantities and the remaining quantities ascertained
without opening the bin or holder, which occupies comparatively small
space, and the grain is carefully preserved. The bin is preferably made
of sheet iron galvanized for small sizes, and of a peculiar brick for large

page_text: sizes. It is made of round form to prevent secretion of dust and of
any required diameter, so as to regulate its capacity for a quantity
determined before hand. The corn or grain is charged at top and drawn
off from the bottom, thus disturbing the whole body of the contents, and
thereby preventing fermentation. The bin or granary is closed at top
with a locked lid, and it is graduated or provided with a scale or
indicator on the outside. A chain carrying a weight, weighted disc or
float within the bin or granary, and another weight, disc, plate, or float
or an index outside the bin or granary runs along the scale or indicator,
so that as the corn or grain is drawn off and the quantity that remains
in the bin or granary is of course reduced, the quantity will be
indicated by the position of the outside index in respect of the scale.
The grain passes through a measurer or passage of regulated capacity
by the intermediary of a slide plate or drawer, also of regulated size, into
a graduated measure or sieve which is thus filled rapidly with exact
rations of grain or corn which are thereby measured before reaching the
measure or sieve. A second slide or drawer of regulated capacity is
used to increase or reduce the measurer. The measurer is closed by a
locked door. The measure or sieve is placed horizontally to receive the
grain. There may be a niche to hold a dog or for other purpose in
the base of the bin. For large quantities of grain the bin or granary
may be made of an improved brick, slightly curved and formed with a
dovetail tongue at one end and a dovetail recess at the other end. The
tongue is formed on a part of the brick left so as to constitute a sort of
ledge or bearing for the arms or sides of the dovetail hole of the next
brick to rest against. When these bricks are fitted together a circular
building is made. These bricks may be used for the erection of hay
and grass towers and other circular or round buildings.