AN IMPROVED APPARATUS. FOR AIRING AND PRESERVING GRAIN, SEEDS, APPLES, POTATOES, HOPS, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES IN GRANARIES, WAREHOUSES, AND SHIPS."
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Scipion Salaville, of Paris, France, Proprietor, for
the Invention of "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS. FOR AIRING AND PRESERVING
GRAIN, SEEDS, APPLES, POTATOES, HOPS, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES IN
GRANARIES, WAREHOUSES, AND SHIPS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Scipion Salaville at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 17th
July 1855.
I, SCIPION SALAVILLE, of Paris (France), Proprietor, do hereby declare the
nature of the Invention for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR AIRING AND PRE-
SERVING GRAIN, SEEDS, APPLES, POTATOES, HOPS, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES IN
GRANARIES, WAREHOUSES, AND SHIPS," to be as follows:-
My Invention is shown in the annexed Figure in plan, partly in section.
The apparatus is composed of a series of cylindrical tubes A, A, of wrought
iron, which I call "generators," perforated with numerous small triangular
holes punched outwards, the burr of the metal forming. the surface of the tube
into a kind of rasp. These generators are connected together by a series
of smaller tubes B, B, of wrought iron, which are similarly perforated with

page_text: triangular holes. The generators are each connected at the end C to an air-
tight receiver D, and the other end is closed. A strong current of air is
maintained through the apparatus by means of à number of separate fans or
blowers E, E, set upon the same shaft F, which is driven by any suitable prime
mover.
In ordinary granaries and warehouses, the tubes are ranged upon the floor
of the same, and the receiver is placed laterally outside the building; but for
ships, the receiver with its blowers is placed upon deck, and the tubes A and B
in the bottom of the vessel, and a connecting pipe descends from the receiver
to the generators.
The receiver, I would remark, may be employed for the disengagement of
gases which may be distributed among the articles it is desired to preserve by
means of the blowers or ventilators. Among the gases best suited for this
purpose may be named hyposulphurous gas, carbonic acid gas, hydrogen gas,
but any gas not having an injurious action upon the quality of the substances
to be preserved may be beneficially applied.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent; filed
by the said Scipion Salaville in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
17th January 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SCIPION
SALAVILLE, of Paris (France), Proprietor, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Scipion Salaville, Her special licence that I, the said Scipion Salaville, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Scipion
Salaville, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, usé, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
AIRING AND PRESERVING GRAIN, SEEDS, APPLES, POTATOES, HOPS, AND OTHER SIMILAR
ARTICLES IN GRANARIES, WAREHOUSES, AND SHIPS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Scipion Salaville, my executors or administrators, by

page_text: an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said. Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be
filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Scipion Salaville, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, and by the Drawing hereunto annexed, which represents a
ground plan of the apparatus, shewn partly in section.
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The apparatus is composed of a number of cylindrical tubes a, a, which I call
generators;" they are made of sheet iron, and are perforated with a great.
number of small triangular holes punched from the inside, so as to form a burr
on the outside like a rasp: The length and the number of these generators
will depend upon the dimensions of the building to which the apparatus is to
be applied. These generators are ranged parallel to each other at a distance of
about two feet, and are connected together by parallel rows of smaller tubes b, b,
perforated like the others. This combination of pipes is arranged on the floor
of the granary or warehouse, or in the hold of the vessel, below the materials
which it is sought to preserve. The end of each generator is closed, and the
other end opens into an air-tight reservoir c, which is connected with a series of
rotatory fans or blowing machines d, d, (set upon the same axis, and moved
by any suitable motive power,) by means of which a strong current of air
can be forced through the tubes, and thence amongst the materials to be
preserved. e, e, are man-holes to the reservoir.
In ordinary granaries and warehouses the reservoir and blowers are ranged
outside the building upon the ground, but in vessels the reservoir and blowers
are placed upon deck, and a connecting pipe descends from the reservoir to the
generators.
.
The reservoir, I would remark, may be employed for the disengagement of
gases which may be distributed ainongst the articles it is sought to preserve
by means of the blowers or ventilators. Amongst the gases best suited for this
purpose may be named hyposulphurous gas, carbonic acid gas, and hydrogen
gas, but any gas not having an injurious action upon the quality of the
substances to be preserved may be beneficially employed.
The apparatus, it will be seen, is well adapted to the ventilation of vessels
laden with coals, to prevent spontaneous ignition amongst the latter, as also to
the ventilation of emigrant ships.

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Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I claim, in respect thereof, the threefold com-
bination of a system of perforated tubes with an air-tight receiver and a series
of rotatory fans or blowers set upon the same shaft or, axis, as herein-before
described.
D.
In witness whereof, I, the said Scipion Salaville, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness;
H. H. MURDOCH.
S. SALAVILLE. (L.S.)