AN APPARATUS FOR THE PURPOSE OF DRYING MALT, HOPS, OR ANY KIND OF GRAIN
Year: 1807

page_text: SALTER'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, 1, SAMUEL
SALTER, of Watford, in thè County of Herts, Malster, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing. date at. Westminster, the Nineteenth day of
December, in the forty-eighth year of His reign, give and grant unto me,
the said Samuel Salter, my exors, adiñiors, and assigns, His especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Samuel Salter, my
exors, adñiors, and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN APPARATUS FOR THE
PURPOSE OF DRYING MALT, HOPS, OR ANY KIND OF GRAIN;" in which said Letters
Patent thero is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Samuel Salter, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular descrip-
tion of the nature of my said Invention, and. in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
one calendar month after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and
by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Samuel Salter, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in manner
following, that is to say :-
The entrance of the kiln-hole or fire-place is inclosed with a cast or wrought

page_text: iron frame, or in any other way, or with any other suitable article, that the heat
of the inclosed fire will not destroy. In the frame two doors are fixed, one at or
near the top, the other at or near the bottom, of sufficient dimensions to admit
the supply of fuel for the fire, and also for taking out the cinders and ashes
beneath the fire. In the upper door is an aperture of proper size to admit
the necessary quantity of air to carry off the steam that may arise from the
malt, hops, or any kind of grain intended to be dried. The size of the aper-
ture must depend on the nature and construction of the kiln, and as in the
different stages of drying any of the articles before specified, it is requisite to
vary the quantity of air admitted, a slide or regulator is affixed to the door for
that purpose.
In the lower door is also an aperture, which may be of the
same size as in the upper one, with a slide or regulator to admit more or less
air, as the state of the fire may require. The bars, on which the fire is placed
or kept, are either of cast or wrought iron, and are placed at the distance of
about half an inch from each other, in order not only to make the fire burn
freely, but that a considerable quantity of air may pass through the fire, and
being rarified thereby, will greatly assist both in drying the articles before
specified and carrying off the steam; also, the number and length of the bars
must be governed by the size of the kiln. The sides of the kiln-hole or fire-
place are cast iron, or any other article or thing that the fire will not easily
destroy. If of cast iron, about half an inch thick will answer the purpose;
and in that part on cach side against which the fire lays is a piece of cast or
wrought iron, or any other article or material that will hold the heat, of about
eighteen inches long, about six inches deep, and about two inches thick, to
project into the fire-place, which not only prevents the sides from being
destroyed by the fire, but being kept red hot thereby, necessarily throws a
great heat into the body of the kiln. The upper edge of the projecting piece
may be bevelled off' to prevent the coals or fuel resting on it, and thereby
damaging the sides. The top of each of the sides forms the base of an arch of
cast iron, or any other material or thing that will answer the purpose, of about
the same thickness of the sides. The ash-hole beneath the fire should be
about eighteen inches long, twelve inches wide, and twelve inches deep.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Salter, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Eighteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eight.
SAMUEL SALTER. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighteenth day of January, in
the year of our Lord 1808, the aforesaid Samuel Salter 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
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Nineteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eight.