AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUSES TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE STACKING OR STORING OR CORN AND OTHER AGRICULTURAL AND HORMONTSEDLY PROD
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Dray, of Swan Lane, in the City of London.
Agricultural Implement Maker, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
METHOD OF AND APPARATUSES TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE STACKING OR STORING
OR CORN AND OTHER AGRICULTURAL AND HORMONTSEDLY PROD"
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Sealed the 31st March 1857, and dated the 17th October 1856.
PROVISIONAL, SPECIFICATION left by the said William Dray at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 17th
October 1856.
I, WILLIAM DRAY, of Swan Lane, in the City of London, Agricultural
Implement. Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUSES TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE STACKING OR
STORING OF CORN AND OTHER AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL PRODUCE," to be
as follows; E
The Invention "consists in leaving or producing one or more channels
or passages in stacks," ricks, heaps, and bundles of agricultural and horti-
cultural produce, through which cold' or 'heated air or purifying agents may be
forced or passed, in order to ventilate and dry the same, or destroy insects
and vermin 'therein, as' may be necessary.
One form of apparatus consists of one or more tubes, perforated or not, open
at one or both ends, and fitted with a fan, blower, or other agent for creating
a draft through the stack or store.

page_text: Another form of apparatus consists of a metal covering placed over the
stack, heap, or bundle, with pipes leading from the outside thereof and entering
the bottom and sides, or either, of the stack, heap, or bundle. Air or other
purifying agent is forced or admitted into the pipes and drawn through
the stack by a blower, or other equivalent, placed upon or connected with an
aperture in the top of the cover.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Palent, filed
by the said William Dray in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
16th April 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
DRAY, of Swan Lane, in the City of London, Agricultural Implement Maker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Dray, Her special licence that I, the said William Dray,
my executors, administrators; and assigns, or such others as I, the' said
William Dray, 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, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND
APPARATUSES TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE STACKING OR STORING OY CORN AND OTHER
AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL PRODUCE," upon, the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said William Dray, my executors or administrators, by 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 William Dray, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed;
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
thereof, that is to say:-
.
The Invention consists in having ог providing one or more channels; or

page_text: passages in stacks, ricks, heaps, and bundles of agricultural and horticultural
produce, through which cold or heated air or purifying agents may be forced
or passed, in order to ventilate and dry the same, or destroy insects and vermin
therein, as may be necessary.
:
One form of apparatus consists of one or more tubes, perforated or not, open
at one or both ends, and fitted with a fan, blower, or other agent for creating
a draft through the stack or store; and, if desired, branch pipes, perforated
or not, are connected to the tubes.
Another form of apparatus consists of a metal covering placed over the
stack, heap, or bundle, with pipes leading from the outside thereof and entering
the bottom and sides, or either, of the stack, heap, or bundle. Air or other
purifying agents is forced or admitted into the pipes and drawn through the
stack by a blower, or other equivalent, placed upon or connected with an
aperture in the top of the cover. Or, where grain or other horiticultural or
agricultural produce is stored in buildings, I introduce under the floor or
floors thereof air pipes or flues, and cause them to open at intervals into and
through the floor.
And 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 improved
method of and apparatuses to be employed in the stacking or storing of corn
and other agricultural and horticultural produce, herein-before described.
In witness whereof, 'I, the said William Dray, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of April, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-seven.
WILLIAM DRAY. (L.S.)