An Improved Apparatus for the Drying of Macaroni.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application 17th Jan., 1896-
Complete Specification Left, 25th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 28th Mar., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus for the Drying of Macaroni.
I, GIOVANNI FALCHI, of 23, Aldgate, in the City of London, E.C., Manu-
facturer of Italian Commodities, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved apparatus for the drying, or to facilitate
the drying of macaroni, during the process of manufacture as in the Neapolitan
manner, and has for its object to effect this more expeditiously and so prevent
fermentation, as obtains with the methods and means hitherto employed.
For the purposes of my invention I construct of any material or combination of
materials suitable for the purpose, a preferably rectangular oblong frame, of any
dimensions, the four portions constituting such frame being either permanently
secured together by nails, screws, or other suitable means, or so arranged as to be
easily taken apart, and again reconnected together, clips, books, pins or the like
being employed for this purpose. The said frame may have crossing its narrowest
diameter a fixed or portable bar, or bars, or grooves may be formed in the longest
eides of the said frame in which the said cross bar or bars may slide, so that this
or these may be fixed therein where desired, while suitable grooves may be formed
in the said cross bar or bars, and the end portions of the frame, for the reception
of portable slabs of cardboard, wood, or other absorbent material. A bar or
hanger of any suitable material is arranged to fit as a nosing upon the outer edge
of one of the longest sides of the frame, the said nosing being preferably of a
length corresponding to that of the said side, the outer face of which is semicircular
in cross section or thereabouts.
In practice the lengths of macaroni to be dried would be first hung over and
suspended upon the said bar, banger or nosing, when the frame would be stood
upon one of its longest sides and the said bar be placed upon the upper edge of the
frame with the ends of the macaroni at each side thereof when, the frame may be
suspended in some suitable position by the means of the extended ends of its upper
side resting upon brackets, or by other means, and the macaroni be dried by
exposure to a gentle heat or a current of clean dry air. Or in lieu of the frame
being suspended by one of its sides, the before mentioned slabs may be slid into
their respective grooves outside the ends of the macaroni, so that the said frame
may be laid flatwise upon suitable brackets or their equivalents during the drying
period.
I may find it convenient to employ two or more such frames placed or fixed
together side by side, or 1 may construct an apparatus composed of any number of
such frames, so arranged that an air space exists between each frame and its
neighbour, in which case the said cross bars may be so placed as to be fixed, or
capable of sliding between one frame and the next, either or all of which sections
of such a compound frame may be arranged to receive the before mentioned
cardboard or other slabs, and I may arrange one broad hanger or nosing capable
of encompassing and fitting upon one of the longest sides of all the sections of the
said compound frame, or I may provide several such hangers each encompassing
one or more of the said sections, as may be found most convenient. By the means
of such a compound frame I am enabled to dry longer lengths of macaroni, when

page_text: the frame is suspended by one of its sides, or macaroni of spiral or other form and
in larger quantities if the frame when loaded be laid flatwise.
Dated this 17th day of January 1896.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1, Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for Applicant.
An Improved Apparatus for the Drying of Macaroni.
I, GIOVANNI FALCHI of 23 Aldgate in the City and County of London,
Manufacturer of Italian Commodities 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 :-
My invention relates to an improved apparatus for drying or to facilitate the
drying of macaroni during the process of its manufacture in the Neapolitan manner,
and has for its object to effect this more expeditiously than has been possible by
the means hitherto employed, and thus prevent the fermentation that obtains when
the said drying is effected by a more lengthy process.
In order that my said invention and the manner in which I prefer to construct
and use the same, may be fully understood, I have hereunto appended a sheet of
drawings in which :-
Figs. 1, 2 and 3 are side elevation, end elevation and vertical section respectively
of my improved apparatus as I prefer to construct it for general use, the latter,
view being taken upon the line A B of Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is a plan view, Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the apparatus in use,
partly broken away to more clearly show the position of the respective parts of the
same.
Figs. 6, 7, 8 and 9 are details hereinafter explained.
For the purposes of my invention I construct of any material or combination of
materials suitable for the purpose a preferably oblong skeleton frame, of any
dimensions, the top, bottom and two ends of which may be either permanently
secured together by nails, screws or other suitable means, or so arranged as to be
easily taken apart and again reconnected by the means of clips hooks or pins.
as may be found most convenient, the latter arrangement providing facilities for
extending or duplicating the said skeleton frame, or for connecting two or more
such frames together side by side, but for general use I prefer to construct the
said frame as follows.
I prefer that the said frame shall consist of two ends fixed upon a base or
bottom A, the said ends being preferably divided centrally of their widths so as to
form four parts BC and DE respectively, the division between BC and ED
being maintained at their lower ends by a raised rib a upon the base A, and at
their upper ends by a fixed bar F, and any number of fixed or portable intermediate
bars G, the said bar F having a rib or tongue e, and being of greater length than
the base A and the bars G, so as to provide projections cd (for purposes hereinafter
explained). The portions BCDE have each grooves such as g formed upon
their inner vertical surfaces, those upon the ends BC facing and coinciding with
those upon the ends DE, similar grooves i each of a width equal to the combined
width of gf in C and E and B and D respectively, being formed in the bottom or
base A, divided by the rib a, which, with the said grooves g are for the reception
of portable slabs of cardboard, wood, or other absorbent material H, while the
groove f, in combination with the grooves in A receive similar but taller slabs J.
A bar or hanger K (Fig. 8) rounded upon its upper surface fits upon the bar F, a
groove k in the under surface of the former engaging with the tongue e upon the

page_text: upper surface of the latter, the length of K being preferably not in excess of the
length of the frame, and of a width sufficient to encompass the two grooves f, or
if desired the entire width of the frame, and if the latter the boards J would
not exceed in height the boards H, but I prefer K to be of the narrower width
as shewn.
The outer sides of the end portions BCDE are each provided with any
number of brackets or their equivalents m which receive portable bars such as L,
the said bars being so formed, that when in position (as shewn in Figs. 3 and 5)
their inner surfaces are flush with the outer surfaces of the boards or slabs J,
and serve to keep these in position, and from buckling, by the damp and heat to
which they may be exposed.
In practice for general purposes the frame would be stood upon its base A,
with the slabs H in position in the grooves g, when the lengths of macaroni M
would be hung over the bar or nosing K, so as to depend each side thereof
and enclosing the slabs H, when the slabs J would be slid into the grooves f,
thereby enclosing the macaroni between these and the slabs H, when the bars L
would be placed in position enclosing the slabs J, the whole being then
substantially as at Fig. 5, and may be either suspended by the extensions or
projections c d of F resting upon suitable wall brackets, such as R Fig. 9 as
shewn at Fig. 1, or laid down flatwise upon such but wider brackets, and exposed
to a gentle heat or a current of clean dry air until the macaroni has sufficiently
dried when it may be removed. By these means I am enabled to effect the
said drying in a few hours, whereas previous to my invention such drying has
occupied as many days, during which time the macaroni frequently became spoiled
by fermentation.
In order to prevent possible buckling of the inner slabs or cardboards H, I may
form in these any number of recesses N, each having an aperture O as shewn in
Fig. 7 through which may pass buttons or the like such as P upon the bars For
the bars G or both, as shewn at Fig. 6, so that these when passed through and
turned crosswise of the apertures O, as shewn at Fig. 5, may be flush with the
outer surface of H. I may find it convenient that the air space between B and C
and D and E may be closed or filled up, while similar air spaces may be provided
in the base A.
I may find it convenient to employ two or more such frames placed or fixed
together side by side, or I may construct an apparatus composed of any number
of such frames, so arranged that an air space exists between each frame and its
neighbour, either or all of which sections of such a compound frame may be
arranged to receive the before mentioned cardboard or other slabs, and I may
arrange one broad hanger or nosing capable of encompassing all the sections of
the said compound frame, or I may provide several such hangers each encom-
passing one or more of the said sections, as may be found most convenient. By
the means of such a compound frame I am enabled to dry longer lengths of
macaroni when the frame is suspended by its extensions c d, or macaroni of spiral
or other form and in larger quantities, if the frame when loaded be laid flatwise.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1st. In an improved system or process for drying macaroni during its manufacture,
the construction, use and application of the herein described apparatus, with the
alternative methods of arranging the parts of same, connected, combined and
operating substantially as herein set forth and shewn.
2nd. In an improved apparatus for drying macaroni during its manufacture, the
combination of a skeleton frame having a solid or open base such as A, having a
rib a and grooves such as h i, and carrying standards or ends such as BC and DE
with connecting
or dividing bars such as. G F, the latter having extensions such
as c d and a rib or tongue e the latter engaging with a groove k of a hanger or

page_text: nosing such as K. The slabs H and J engaging with grooves g and in the said
ends or standards, and the grooves hi in the base A, retained in position by
removable bars such as L engaging with brackets or the like such as m, upon
B C
and D E, connected and operating substantially as herein described and shewn.
3rd. The duplication or triplication of the skeleton frame set forth in the
preceding claims substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this 25th day of February 1896.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1 Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.