AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR THE PREPARATION OF MALT
Year: 1884

page_text: I HENRI SENEY Manufacturer of metallic textures of Roubaix rue du Collége 91
Département du Nord France do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR THE PREPARATION OF MALT to be
as follows:
This machine is made of 1° two pieces A et B in double T iron bearing the
support and the brackets 2° a chain with buckets C surrounded with a thin iron
plate 3° a reservoir D in sheet iron with inclined plane 4° Aprons E, F, G, etc.
5° inclined planes K, L, M, N 6° a pulverizator. It appears from this description,
that when the machine is moved in the direction of the arrows, the grain laying in
the reservoir D fills the buckets of the chain, and tumbles on the inclined plane K
to form a bed on the Apron E, where are the registers a, b to regulate thickness.
The tubes c & d combined, one for steam, the other for water, wet the grain
regularly according to the pratical conditions. The grain follows thus, the
movement; from the first apron falls on the second, in the same way falls on the .
third etc then it is taken up again by the buckets of the chain to be submitten
to the same operation if wanted by the operator.
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When the operator judges that the grain has sufficiently passed through the
machine, a bended surface M is ready to receive it and take it up to the kiln
to dry.
After having been previously soaked with a sufficient quantity of water for the
work of a good germination in a special soaking tub, the grain, when arrived on
the apron E, is carried forth on it and receives there the required thickness by the
registers A & B. When there, you wait for the point of germination of the grain.
When at this degree you carry it further away with the aforesaid apron E, which,
while turning about a notched pulley, lets the grain drop on a second apron placed
underneath. The grain when falling from one to other apron, receives exactly
pulverized water it wants, by the tubes C & D. When the grain in course of
germination and carried by the second apron, falls again, it is carried to the
bucket-chain and taken upwards by the buckets which spread it again on the
apron E, where it begins the same movement as before, till the germ is conveniently
developped. At this moment the surface M is ready to receive and to convey the
grain to the kiln to be dried.

page_text: Conclusions. So the apparatus suppresses handwork; the grain undergoes a
regular germination; it develops uniformly the germ; produces with 0m 20° to
0m 22 centimetres thick on the aprons, twenty kilogrammes malt per 24 hours and
per metre square. The manipulation of the grain is made two or three times per
24 hours, according to seasons, to the variety of grains and to the practical wants
which are of the conductor's dominion.
The apparatus beeing made of iron, requires but little expense for installation, but
a small space, and only natural aeration, whereas the aprons are separated, the
grain placed on a metallic texture and the sides of the aprons beeing of the same
nature.

page_text: I HENRI SENEY, manufacturer of metallic textures, of Roubaix (Département du
Nord) France, rue du Collége, 91, do hereby declare the nature of. my invention
for AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR THE PREPARATION OF MALT
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This machine is made of:-1° two pieces A & B in double T iron, bearing the
support and the brackets;-2° a chain with buckets C surrounded with a thin iron
plate; 3° a reservoir D in sheet iron with inclined plane;-4° aprons E F G
etc -5° inclined planes K L M N;-6° a pulverizator.-It appears from this
description that, when the machine is put in motion in the direction of the arrows,
the grain laying in the reservoir D, fills the buckets of the chain and tumbles on
the inclined plane K to form a bed on the apron E, where are the registers a, b, to
regulate thickness. The tubes C & D combined, one for steam and the other for
water, wet the grain regularly according to the practical conditions.-The grain
follows the movement as follows:-from the first apron falls on the second, falls in
the same way on the third etc...; then it is taken up again by the buckets of the
chain to be submitten to the same operation if wanted by the operator. When the
latter judges that the grain has sufficiently passed through the machine, a bended
surface is ready to receive it and take it up to the kiln to dry.
After having been previously imbibed with a sufficient quantity of water for the
work of a good germination in a soaking tub, the grain, when arrived on the
apron E, is carried away on it and receives there the required thickness by tho
registers A & B. When there, you wait for the point of germination of the grain.
When at that degree you carry it further away with the apron E which, while
turning about a notched pulley, lets the grain drop on a second apron placed
underneath. The grain when falling from one to the other apron, receives exactly
the pulverized water it wants by the tubes C & D. When the grain in course of
germination and carried by the second apron, falls again, it is carried to the
bucket-chain and taken upwards by the buckets which spread it again on the
apron E, where it begins the same movement again, as has been explained above,
till the germ is conveniently developped. At this moment the surface M is ready
to receive and to convey the grain to the kiln to be dried.
Till now the preparation of malt has been made by spreading the grain in beds
on large malting floors, where the germination effects itself by the passive action of
nature. But this primitive method presents the inconvenience not to give all the
results that may be expected from malting. The bed spread on this malting floor
is moved by shovels several times a day, in order that every part of it should
undergo the combined action of heat and moisture, which are to develop the germ.
But this way of operating is forcibly an imperfect one, whereas this manipulation
is not sufficient to give to the outspread bed the required homogeneity to provoke
a regular germination. Indeed there is always one part of the grain that is not
germinated enough and another that is too much, from which results a loss of
produce.
Struck with these inconveniences the applicant sought to obtain a mechanical
and regular germination, by creating a metallic self-acting apparatus, in which the
work of mixture is effected twice or three times a day and with a thorough
homogeneity which allows the radicles to preserve their strength, the sprout to
develop itself in an uniform way and to obtain from the grain all the sugar and the
diastase it can yield.

page_text: This apparatus, motioned by steam, and the motion of which has been described
previously, has the following dimensions:
The four aprons are distant of each other of 0m 80 centtros, which gives a height
of 3m 20 centtres; adding 0m 40c. underneath the lower apron and 0m 20 centtros
above the higher one for the supports, this gives a total height of 3¤ 80 centtros.—
The length is of 10 metres and the breadth of 2 metres.
An apparatus having those dimensions produces 1600 kilos of malt per 24 hours.
It must be understood that the apparatus may be made in smaller or larger
dimensions according one wishes to have more or less produce.
The aprons, which bear the beds and which are made of a metallic texture and
are endless, are led by cylinders which are propelled by chains. These are the
features of novelty of my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that What I claim is :
A continuous apparatus for the preparation of malt, consisting of elevators,
endless aprons, sprinkler &c. . . substantially as herein before described.
Roubaix the 4th day of November 7001.
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