of Malt and other Kilns.
Year: 1885

page_text: of Malt and other Kilns.
I, JABEZ JAMES CORNISH, of North Norfolk Iron Works, Walsingham, in the
County of Norfolk, Agricultural Machinist and Engineer, 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:-
This Invention relates to certain improvements in or applicable to tiles for
forming the floors of malt and other kilns, special objects of the Invention being
to reduce the amount of dead surface in floors formed of such tiles as hitherto
constructed and applied, and to provide increased facilities for ensuring a better
circulation and freer radiation and more even distribution of the heated air or
heating agent both under and through the tiles than is attainable with existing
formations of such tiles; and to render such tiles of correspondingly increased
advantage and utility.
The Invention is illustrated on the accompanying drawings in perspective view
in Fig. 1, and (on an enlarged scale) in under plan view in Fig. 2.
In tiles made according to the present Invention, the body or centre part of the
tile has cast or formed through its substance series of holes, 1, tapering from the
under surface of the tile, (where they are made of an hexagonal or honeycombed
formation, vide Fig. 2, or of the largest possible size their relatively adjacent
positions will permit of,) to the upper surface thereof where they terminate in
equidistant finer circular holes of such a size as will not permit of the malt or
other like material falling through, and will yet permit of the free upward passage
of the heated air or heating agent. Each side or edge of the tile is also cast or
formed with series of channels or grooves, 2, in such a manner as that when
brought into juxtaposition by the tiles being placed side by side together they
will form corresponding holes to those, 1, herein before referred to as made througli
the body or centre part of the tile, and will thus effectually break up the large
amount of dead and comparatively useless surface hitherto existent in floors made
of such tiles at the meeting parts of the latter, and hence will greatly increase the
efficiency thereof. Each of the depending supporting sides or rims, 3, of the tiles
is also made with one or more bridge shaped or through openings, 4, preferably of
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page_text: as considerable lateral extent as is attainable, and which are principally effective
in permitting of the free circulation of the heated air or heating agent in all
directions under the flooring.
The tiles are preferably made square in plan view, but they may be of other
convenient or suitable shapes.
The hereinbefore described improved manufacture of such tiles greatly increases
their efficiency, avoids the usual dead surface, and causes the tiles to become more
uniformly heated and the malt or other material to be the better and more
economically dried.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim, is
1. The hereinbefore described improvements in or applicable to tiles for forming
the floors of malt and other kilns, the same consisting essentially in the formation
in the sides thereof of the channels or grooves, 2, and in the depending edges
thereof of the through openings, 4, substantially as and for the purposes specified.
2. As an improved article of manufacture, a tile for forming the floors of malt
and other kilns formed in its body with through openings, and in its side and
depending edges with grooves and through openings, of the respective formations
or characters hereinbefore indicated.
DAY, DAVIES, & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.