AN IMPROVED MALT KUN
Year: 1829

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
SALMON, of Stoke Ferry, in the County of Norfolk, Maltster, send greeting..
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Ninth day of July, in the tenth year of His reign, did,
for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Thomas Salmon, His especial licence, that I, the said Thomas Salmon, my
exors, admors, and assigns, or others as I, the said Thomas Salmon, my
exors, 'admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and all times during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN
IMPROVED MALT KUN;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso obliging me, the said Thomas Salmon, by an instrument in writing
under my
hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain' the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause
the same to be enrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
tivo calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance' with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Salmon, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention .to
consist in so constructing a malt kiln as to admit a portion of heated air from
the flue or furnace to pass into the space over the kiln floor while the grain is
spread upon it, without passing through the green malt or wet grain which has
been placed thereon to dry, and which by this means is much more quickly and

page_text: Thomas Salmon, do hereby describe the manner, in which my said Invention
is to be performed, by the following description thereof, reference being had to
the Drawing annexed, and to the figures and letters marked. thereon (that is
to say):
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
The Drawing represents the floor of a malt kiln made of perforated tiles.
In the places marked A, B, C, a tile is supposed to be removed and the
small funnel of a chimney, which I call a rarifier, here shown, substi;
tuted in its place. This rarifier, may be made of tin, iron, brick, tile, or any
other suitable material that will bear the heat, and should be of an height..
greater than the greatest height at which the grain is ever laid on the kiln
floor, and be furnished with sliding lids 'or covers to regulate the quantity of
heat admitted into the space, above the floor; When the grain has been spread
upon the floor, these sliding lids or covers should be removed, and the hot air
from the flue or furnace admitted to pass upwards through them; and it will be
found that much less, steam will be condensed under the roof, and the grain
more rapidly and, better dried, than on the present plan:
It is, only necessary further to say, that the opening at the top-of-the-roof-
should, for the purposes of my Invention, be contracted to about three feet for a
kiln of twenty-seven feet-square, and so in proportion. It is evident that where
the floor of the kiln is made of wire or iron, which is sometimes the case, a
place may be cut for the funnels or rarifiers.
Now whereas I claim as my Invention a kiln so constructed as to admit
heated air into the space over the green malt or wet grain as it lies on the kiln
floor to dry, without such heated air passing through the said green malt or wet
grain; and such my Invention being, to the best of my knowledge and belief,
entirely new, and never before used within that part of His said Majesty's
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His said
dominion of: Wales, or town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare
this to be my Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe this my saiḍ
Specification doth comply in all respects, fully and without reserve or disguise,
with the proviso in the said herein-before in part recited Letters Patent con-
tained; wherefore. I hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to
my said Invention.
1.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Salmon, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of August, in the year of our. Lord-One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
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page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the First day of August, in the
year of our Lord 1829, the aforesaid Thomas Salmon came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
5 above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.