IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING, STORING AND DELIVERING GRAIN IN GRANARIES to be as follows
Year: 1884

page_text: 1 FREDERIC ELIOT DUCKпAM of Millwall Docks in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for "IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING, STORING AND DELIVERING GRAIN IN GRANARIES
to be as follows:-
"
My Invention rolates to improved apparatus for distributing, storing and
delivering grain.
At the lower part of the granary is a receiving hopper preferably at such a level
that grain may flow there-into from wagons or cranes. At a suitable height above
the upper floor of the granary is another hopper to which the grain is raised from
the first mentioned hopper by an elevator of the ordinary type. This upper hopper
has a revolving funnel shaped botton provided with a radial inclined spout, the
bottom of the hopper being mounted to revolve on a vertical axis which is the
common centre from which radiate a number of conveyance pipes arranged in a
circle corresponding to the radius of the spout so that the latter may be made to
coincide with and lead into any one of them at will. The different floors of the
granary are each divided into a number of bins, the bins of each floor corresponding
in position with those of the floors above and below. Through each of the several
vertical series of bins passes one of the conveying pipes, the said pipes being
provided in each bin with valves for conveying the grain to or discharging it from
any bin of the series, these pipes terminating at the delivery floor each in a
delivery hopper.
Each pipe has gaps or openings near the top and bottom of each bin, each closed
at will by a telescopic sliding sleeve or other contrivance. When grain is being
received into the bin, the upper gap is opened by raising its sleeve and the grain is
diverted and scattered into the bin by a conical stop or deflector or other appliance
placed over the mouth of the pipe below the gap. When the grain is to be
delivered or transferred to a lower bin, the lower gap is opened and the grain flows
out of the bin and down through the pipe until stopped as before mentioned, or
until it reaches the delivery hopper at bottom. This hopper is of small size and
preferably fitted with two outlets having slide valves by which the outflow of the
grain to the weighing machine may be regulated.
The clevator may feed two or more of the main hoppers at the top of the granary
by placing its head at such height as will allow the grain to flow to one or other.
Dated this 15th day of August 1884

page_text: I, FREDERIC ELIOT DUCKHAM of Millwall Docks in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVED APPARATUS
FOR DISTRIBUTING, STORING AND DELIVERING GRAIN IN GRANARIES " and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
My Invention relates to improved apparatus for distributing, storing and
delivering grain whereby the grain may be readily distributed to or delivered from
any part of the granary as may be required.
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This apparatus comprises a granary, the floors of which are divided into bins
which correspond in position on the different floors, so as to form series through 1
which pipes can pass-in-a-vertical or oblique direction, for the conveyance by
gravity of the grain to or from any_bin_or bins in the respective-series, the said
pipes being provided with delivery and discharge valves in each bin and-combined_
with a rotary hopper common to all and provided with delivery hoppers.
Weighing machines may be placed at the receiving hopper or the delivery hopper 1
or both.
Reference is to be had to the-accompanying drawings forming part of this
specification wherein Figure 1 is a horizontal section and Figure 2-a -vertical.
section of a granary furnished with the appliances of my invention. Figure 3
shows-on-a-larger-scale the delivery and discharge appliances in two bins of a series,
those in the upper one being in clevation and those in-the-lower_one_in_section.
In carrying out my invention I provide at the lower part of the granary, a
receiving hopper A, preferably at such a level that grain may flow thereinto from
wagons or cranes; and at a suitable height above the upper floor of the granary,
another hopper B to which the grain is raised from the first mentioned hopper, by
an elevator C of the ordinary type. This upper hopper B has a revolving funnel
shaped bottom D, provided with a radial inclined spout d, the bottom of the hopper
being mounted to revolve about a vertical axis (not shown) which is the common
centre, towards which converge the upper ends e of a number of conveyance pipes E
arranged in a circle corresponding to the radius of and on a level with the spout d,
so that the latter may be made to coincide with and lead into any one of them at
will. Each floor of the granary is divided into a number of bins, the bins of the
different floors corresponding in position, so as to form vertical series F F F F³ F' &c.
Through each of the several series of bins, passes a conveying channel formed of
pipe sections e¹ e² with corresponding openings in the floors of the bins, there being
a gap between the sections near the top and another at the bottom of each bin.
The lower gap is formed by supporting the flanged bottom of the section e' at a
sufficient height from the floor of the bin upon tubular pillars or distance pieces e³
through which pass the screw bolts by which the pipe is fixed to the floor. The
upper gap is formed between the sections e¹ e², the short section e² being pendent
from the ceiling of the bin as shown. These gaps are respectively closed at will
by sliding sleeves or tubular valves G H and when grain is being received into a
bin (the bin F in Figure 3 for instance) the upper gap is opened by raising its
sleeve G and the grain is diverted and scattered into the bin by a conical stop or
deflector I or other appliance temporarily placed over the mouth of the pipe section e¹
below the gap. When the grain is to be delivered or transferred to a lower bin as
from bin to bin F³ the lower gap is opened by raising sleeve H and the grain
flows out of the bin between the pillars and down through the pipe until stopped
by the cap I as before mentioned or until it reaches the delivery hopper K at
bottom.

page_text: The hoppers K in which the several conveyance pipes terminate at the delivery
floor of the granary are of small size and preferably fitted with two outlets having
slide valves by which the outflow of the grain to the weighing machines may be
regulated.
The elevator C may feed two or more of the main hoppers B at the top of the
granary by placing its head at such height as will allow the grain to flow to ono
or other as required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I would observe that
I make no claim to the use of the revolving hopper and the conveying parts of the
pipes apart from the remainder of the apparatus but what I claim is :-
1st In a granary, the combination with series of superposed bins, of conveying
pipes or channels traversing the said bins, and provided with receiving and
delivering apertures and sleeves or valves at the upper and lower part of each bin,
substantially as herein specified and shown in the Drawings.
2nd In a granary, the combination with series of superposed bins, of conveying
pipes or channels traversing the respective series, and provided with delivery and
discharge apertures and valves in each bin and having their upper ends converging
towards a common centre and of a rotary delivery hopper and spout capable of
being made to coincide with any one of the said pipes at will, the whole arranged
substantially as shown and described.
3rd In a granary the combination with series of superposed bins and with holes
in the floors thereof, of conveying pipes constructed of sections or lengths of pipes
two in each bin, respectively attached to the floor and to the coiling of the bin in
such manner as to leave receiving and discharging apertures at the upper and
lower parts of the bin and of sliding sleeves or valves whereby the apertures may
be closed and the pipes made continuous, substantially as described and shown in
the drawings.
4th The combination with a pipe constructed in sections and provided with
valves as described, and with the receiving aperture at the upper part of any one
bin, of a stop or deflector, substantially as and for the purpose specified.