Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Sept., 1886.
Complete Left, 20th June, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 29th July, 1887.
ROBERT KELSALL, Potters' Manager, Price Street, Burslem, Staffre: WILLIAM
LEE, Potters' Machinist, Madeley Street, Tunstall, Staffre. do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows :-
Our invention has for its object improvements in machinery for drying potters
ware. By the present method the articles are placed inside an heated chamber until
they are sufficiently dry to be removed, but in the case of glazed ware the articles
after being dipped are placed upon travelling laths or strips inside an heated chamber,
said travelling laths or strips consist of an endless chain or chains to the upper side
of which are attached laths or strips to receive the articles to be dried, said chain or
chains are supported at each end by wheels or rollers which slowly revolve carrying
the articles from one end of the chamber to the other. Sometimes however the.
articles are not sufficiently dry, when they have travelled to the end of the heated
chamber, but having to be removed are marked by the operator's hands or fingers,
which is a great objection lowering their commercial value.
:-
By means of our invention we construct apparatus overcoming this difficulty:
allowing the articles to be thoroughly dry before being removed. Our invention is
constructed and operated as follows:-although we would have it distinctly under-
stood that we do not bind ourselves to the details herein enumerated so long as we
adhere to the principle
Two frames or discs of suitable material are keyed upon a shaft parallel to each
other, and at a suitable distance apart, their peripheries being connected together by
bars or rods from which we suspend shelves, said shelves being free to swing or
revolve upon said bars or rods so as to keep an horizontal position when the discs are
slowly rotated, said discs are fixed vertically and enclosed in an heated chamber :-
the articles being placed upon and removed from the shelves through apertures
formed in the said heated chamber.
Sometimes we attach the before named swing shelves to an endless chain or chains
passing over and supported by wheels or pullies, the whole being enclosed in an
heated chamber. When the articles to be dried are placed upon the shelves, the
before named wheels or pullies are caused to revolve, carrying the articles up and
down the heated chamber until thoroughly dry.
Dated this 15th day of September 1886.

page_text: ROBERT KELSALL, Potter's Manager, Price Street, Burslem, Staffre. WILLIAM
LEE, Potter's Machinist, Madeley Street, Tunstall, Staff. 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 :-
Our invention has for its object, improvements in machinery for drying potter's
ware.
By the present method, the articles are placed inside a heated chamber until they
are sufficiently dry to be removed, but in the case of glazed ware, the articles after
being dipped are placed upon travelling laths or strips inside a heated chamber, said
travelling laths or strips consist of an endless chain or chains, to the upper side of
which are attached laths or strips to receive the articles to be dried, said chain or
chains are supported at each end upon wheels or rollers, which slowly revolve
carrying the articles from one end of the chamber to the other. Sometimes however
the articles are not sufficiently dry when they have travelled to the end of the heated
chamber, but being compelled to remove them or stop the apparatus; are marked or
soiled by the operators hands or fingers, which is a great objection lowering their
commercial value.
By means of our invention we construct apparatus overcoming this difficulty;
whereby the articles may remain in the heated chamber, until sufficiently dry to be
removed without risk of damaging them.
Our invention is constructed and operated in the following manner, reference being
had to accompanying drawing, which illustrate a method of carrying out our
invention, and in which the same letters refer to the corresponding parts in each
figure. Fig. 1 is a front view and Fig. 2 a section on line a-b.
In a suitably constructed heated chamber, we provide pedestals or bearings c c¹
and d d to receive shafts e and f respectively. Upon said shafts e and f, and at a
suitable distance apart, we fix wheels g, said wheels being provided with suitable
teeth to gear with and propell endless chains h h¹. Said endless chains we
construct with suitable projecting pins or studs i, to freely support hanging
brackets j, and to which we attach shelves k to carry the ware to be dried.
It will be seen from the foregoing description, that if the wheels g are caused
to revolve slowly, by suitable means, say by pulleys 1, that the swing shelves k
will be moved up and down or from one end of the chamber to the other as the
case may be, and keep in a horizontal position.
In placing the ware upon and in taking it off the said shelves, we prefer to
station an attendant at each side or end, that depending upon whether the
apparatus is fixed in an inclined, vertical or horizontal position, just as the case
may be, the attendant at one side placing the ware upon the shelves, and the
other taking it off. But if the attendant at the taking off side, considers that the
ware is not sufficiently dry to be taken off, he may allow it to remain on for

page_text: another revolution or more, which is a decided advantage over the apparatus used
at present.
Sometimes however we employ a pair of wheels or discs contained in a heated
chamber in place of endless chains h¹ for carrying shelves k, said wheels or
discs being fixed upon a shaft at the required distance apart, and provided with
suitable pins or studs to receive hanging brackets j, so that when said discs are
rotated, they will carry shelves k round with them.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :
A machine constructed as herein described and illustrated, for carrying pottery
ware in a drying stove, by means of hanging shelves.
BILLINGTON & NEWTON,
Agents for Applicants.