A. DESINFECTING AND DRYING APPARATUS
Year: 1885

page_text: I ANDERS BORCH RECK, Gothersgade 155, Copenhagen, Denmark, Civil Engineer
do hereby declare the nature of said invention for A. DESINFECTING AND DRYING
APPARATUS to be as follows:-
This improvement has for its object to produce a steam desinfecting apparatus,
wherein clothes and similar articles can be effectually dried without steam coils.
The apparatus consists of a receiver, in which the clothes are. placed. In bottom
of receiver is placed a thick layer of shingel on a grating, under which air can be
admitted through an air valve. In top of receiver another air valve gives exit
for moist air. Steam from a steam boiler is blown through, till all air is expelled
and a temperature of 212 degrees is reached in the whole interior of the receiver.
Then steam is shut off and drying begins. The two air valves are opened, and air
will go in under the grating, will pass up through the shingel, will be heated by
contact with the hot shingel, will come up to the wet clothes, will take up moisture
from these and will finally go out through the top-air-valve. Thus drying is effected
by heat stored up in the shingel during the time in which steam is blown through
the apparatus, and no steam coils or other contrivances are necessary to get rid of
the moisture in the clothes.

page_text: I ANDERS BORCH RECK, Gothersgade 155, Copenhagen, Denmark, do hereby
declare the nature of said invention for A DESINFECTING AND DRYING APPARATUS
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This improvement has for its object to produce a steam desinfecting apparatus,
wherein clothes and similar articles can be effectually dried without steam coils.
The apparatus consists of a receiver, in which the clothes are placed. In bottom
of receiver is placed a thick layer of shingel on a grating, under which air can be
admitted through an air valve. In top of receiver another air valve gives exit
for moist air. Steam from a steam boiler is blown through, till all air is expelled
and the temperature of the steam is reached in the whole interior of the receiver.
Then steam is shut off and drying begins. The air valves are opened, and air will
go in under the grating, will pass up through the shingel, will be heated by contact
with the hot shingel, will come up to the wet clothes, will take up moisture from
these and will finally go out through the top-air-valve. This drying is effected by
heat stored up in the shingel during the time, in which steam is blown through the
apparatus, and no steam coils or other contrivances are necessary to get rid of the
moisture in the clothes.
The essential character of the apparatus is, that the steam, passing through the
receiver and clothes placed herein, expels all air from the receiver and at the same
time heats a layer of shingel or similar material, which layer stores up the heat of
the steam and gives it off again, when steam is shut off and air admitted, this air
being heated by contact with the hot shingel, so that it is able to dry clothes or
similar articles, placed in the receiver in a short time.
This desinfecting and drying apparatus can be employed for.destroying vermin,
bacteriums and germs of infections, diseases in clothes, bedclothes, rags and similar
articles by action of hot steam and drying these same articles in a very quick
effective and economical manner.
And in order that the said invention may be more clearly understood and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed, aided by the accompanying drawing, more fully
to describe the same.

page_text: C is the shingel, through which the steam and condensed water passes to the
bottom of apparatus, and
D is the pipe for leading away steam and condensed water.
E is the air valves, for letting in the air underneath the shingel, and
F is the air valves for releasing the moist air.
G is non-conducting material, surrounding the apparatus.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I would state, that
I do not confine myself to the precise details herein described or delineated, as the
same may be varied without altering the characteristic nature of my invention,
but, what I claim, is
The construction of a steam desinfecting and drying apparatus, in which the
steam, before leaving the apparatus, stores up in shingel or similar material as
much heat as necessary for drying the articles, placed in the apparatus.