IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF FRAMES AND TRAYS FOR DRYING AND DAL }} PROVISIONAL SPATION
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to the Right Honorable William Henry Earl Poulett, of
Hinton St. George, Crewkerne, in the County of Somerset, and Grenville
Hall, Droxford, in the County of Hants, for an Invention of "IMPROVED
CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF FRAMES AND TRAYS FOR DRYING AND
DAL }}
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Henry Earl Poulett
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th November 1881.
The Right Honorable WILLIAM HENRY EARL POULETT, of Hinton St. George,
Crewkerne, in the County of Somerset, and Grenville Hall, Droxford, in the County
of Hants. "IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF FRAMES AND TRAYS
FOR DRYING AND ROASTING FRUIT."
The object of this Invention is a special construction and arrangement of frames
and trays for drying and roasting fruit.
For the purposes of my Invention I shape and secure angle or other iron or steel
strips in rectangular or square skeleton form by rivets or by welding, and arrange
intermediate ribs or strips upon or to parallel bars as to divide the frame into
sections or divisions horizontally.
The lower or main portion of the skeleton frame is of greater thickness and
depth than that of the upper part, and is provided with rollers to enable it to be
moved from place to place with facility.
The trays I also make in skeleton form of flat or angle iron or steel strips with
perforated lower edges, into which wires can be laced from side to side, and also
from end to end, to form an openworked or latticed bottom.
The trays are made to fit into the divisions of the frame above mentioned, and
are capable of being readily withdrawn therefrom.
The fruit to be dried and roasted is placed upon the openworked or latticed
bottoms of the trays, and these are arranged one above the other or superposed in
the several divisions of the skeleton frane previously to being pushed into an oven
or retort, the rollers on the bottom of the main frame running upon rails fitted
within the oven for the purpose.
The oven is preferably heated by hot water tubes or by dry hot air being blown
or forced into it, a thorough and complete dissemination taking place into and between
the several trays for producing an equal drying and roasting of the fruit arranged
upon the several trays.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said William Henry Earl Poulett in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
4th May 1882.
The Right Honorable WILLIAM HENRY EARL POULETT, of Hinton St. George,
Crewkerne, in the County of Somerset, and Grenville Hall, Droxford, in the County
of Hants. "IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF FRAMES AND TRAYS
FOR DRYING AND ROASTING FRUIT."
The object of this Invention is a special construction and arrangement of frames
and trays for drying and roasting fruit.
For the purposes of my Invention I shape and secure angle or other iron or steel
strips in rectangular or square skeleton form by rivets or by welding, and arrange
intermediate ribs or strips upon or to parallel bars as to divide the frame into
sections or divisions horizontally.
The lower or main portion of the skeleton frame is of greater thickness and depth
than that of the upper part, and is provided with rollers to enable it to be moved
from place to place with facility.
The trays I also make in skeleton form of flat or angle iron or steel strips with
perforated lower edges, in which wires can be laced from side to side, and also from
end to end, to form an openworked or latticed bottom. The trays are made to fit
into the divisions of the frame above mentioned, and are capable of being readily
withdrawn therefrom.
The fruit to be dried and roasted is placed upon the open worked or latticed
bottoms of the trays, and these are arranged one above the other or superposed in
the several divisions of the skeleton frame previously to being pushed into an oven
or retort, the rollers on the bottom of the main frame running upon rails fitted
within the oven for the purpose.
The oven is preferably heated by hot water tubes or by dry hot air being blown
or forced into it, a thorough and complete dissemination taking place into and
between the several trays for producing an equal. drying and roasting of the fruit
arranged upon the several trays.
My Invention is clearly represented in the annexed Drawings.
A, A, are the bottom and B, B, the upper rails, forming in conjunction with the
corner and intermediate uprights C, C, and D, D, a skeleton frame capable of being
moved in and out of an oven or retort upon rollers E, E, within which the drying
and roasting of fruit may be effected, and especially in the oven or retort patented
in 1880, on the Thirteenth day of November, No. 4677, for which these frames are
particularly adapted.
The front and back portions of the frame carry a series of horizontal straps F, F,
to which other straps or rails G, G, are secured to serve as supports for trays, one of
which is shown at Figure 2. These trays are formed of bent angle or other iron
edges H, H, to which wire I, I, in meshed order is attached or fastened as shown,
and upon which the fruit, such as dates," can be dried and roasted, the date being
arranged in loose layers upon the trays, so that the heat of the oven may permeate
into and between them.
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It will be seen that several of these trays can be fitted in the same frame, and
an attendant can with facility watch the drying and roasting process, and shift the
position of the trays, if necessary, or turn them about, so as to produce an equal and
regular roasting of all the dates which may be upon the several trays.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,―
The construction and employment of skeleton frames on wheels or rollers, and

page_text: the meshed trays, as above described, for drying and roasting dates and like fruit
within the close oven or retort, substantially as that described in the Specification
of Letters Patent granted to Thomas Frederick Henley, on the Thirteenth day of
November 1880, No. 4677.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Henry Earl Poulett, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Third day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
POULETT. (LS.)