Improvements in Treating and Utilizing Spent Hops.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd July, 1889-Accepted, 31st Aug.. 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Treating and Utilizing Spent Hops.
WILLIAM FARROW SMEE 6 Victoria Quadrant Weston Super Mare in the County
of Somerset, Brewer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described & ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
The object of this invention is to dry Hops used in the process of brewing beer and
become spent and thereby to utilize them for litter for Horses & Cattle and for
packing & other like purposes.
To manufacture my invention I erect a Horizontal Steam Boiler Figures 1. 2 & 3
(Cornish pattern) about 20 feet in length or as occasion may require without the
usual central furnace, but having a cylinder or chamber (A) Figures 1. 2. & 2
sloping from the front end (B) Figures 1 & 2 of the Boiler to the rear (C) Figures 1 & 3
thereof at an angle of 10 degrees or thereabout as shewn in the accompaning
drawing, within this cylinder or chamber (A) Figures 1. 2 & 3 I introduce a circular
wire drum (D) Figures 1. 2. & 3 extending the whole length of the cylinder (A)
Figures 1. 2 & 3 and made to revolve upon an archimedian screw (E) Figures 1. 2 & 3
resting on bearings (F) Figures 1. 2 & 3 fixed at both ends of the cylinder or
chamber (A) Figures 1. 2 & 3.
The wire drum (D) Figures 1. 2 & 3 I make with a mesh of about of an
inch square.
The shaft (G) Figures 1. 2 & upon which is fixed the Archimedian screw (E)
Figures 1. 2 & 3 is driven by a steam or other engine independent of the Boiler
Figures 1. 2 & 3 or by a Steam Engine supplied with steam generated by the
Boiler Figures 1. 2 & 3 itself as hereafter described.
I heat the chamber or cylinder (A) Figures 1. 2. & 3 to a temperature of about
200 degrees (Fahrenheit) either by means of steam injected into the Boiler Figures 1.
2 & 3 from another Boiler or by steam generated by the Machine itself, this I do
by bricking up the Boiler (H) Figures 1. 2 & 3 and forming a furnace (I) Figures 1 & 2
and flues beneath it as shewn by (J) Figures 1. 2 & 3. If the Boiler Figures 1. 2 & 3
generates its own steam I propose to utilize it for driving an engine constructed
near, which will supply the necessary power to drive the drum (D) Figures 1. 2 & 3
and elevator hereafter mentioned.
The spent Hops I propose should be shot into the machine by means of an elevator
& hopper (K) Figures 1 & 2 from which they will descend into the drum (D)
Figures 1. 2 & 3.
The drum (D) can be driven at any rate & by the revolutions thereof in the
midst of great heat the Hops will be dried and ejected at (L) Figure 3. the lower
end of the cylinder (A) either on to the floor or into sacks or other convenient
recepticalles.
Having now particularly described my invention and the means adapted for
carrying the same into practical effect, I would have it understood that I do not
confine myself to the precise details indicated, but the features of novelty which I do
claim are.
1. The idea for the utilization of spent Hops in the manner above described.
2. The process of drying spent Hops as above described.
In witness whereof I the said William Farrow Smee have hereunto set my hand
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