IMPROVEMENTS IN DRYING BRICKS, PEAT, AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Barsham, of Kingston-upon-Thames,
in the County of Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
DRYING BRICKS, PEAT, AND OTHER ARTICLES."
Sealed the 3rd November 1853, and dated the 18th May 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Barsham
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 18th May 1853.
I, JOHN BARSHAM, of Kingston-upon-Thames, in the County of
Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN DRYING BRICKS, PEAT, AND OTHER ARTICLES," to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists of combining with a cockle or heating stove
several vertical fans, which are placed around the cockle or heating
stove. The bricks, peat, or other articles are stacked in the chamber,
and the air, heated by the exterior of the cockle or heating stove, is
driven in all directions by the fans, and thus distributed equally
amongst the articles placed to be dried.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Fatent,
filed by the said John Barsham in the Great Seal Patent Office,
on the 18th November 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOHN BARSHAM, of Kingston-upon-Thames, in the County of Surrey,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the six-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Barsham, Her special licence
that I, the said John Barsham, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said John Barsham, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS
IN DRYING BRICKS, PEAT, AND OTHER ARTICLES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said John Barsham, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, 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 inme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Barsham, do hereby
declare the nature of the 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):
This Invention consists of combining with a cockle or heating stove,
several vertical fans, which are placed around the cockle or heating stove.
The bricks, peat, or other articles are stacked in the chamber, and the
air, heated by the exterior of the cockle or heating stove, is driven in
all directions the fans, and thus distributed equally amongst the
articles placed to be dried.

page_text: Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, I will pro-
ceed to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, shows a plan of apparatus arranged and combined ac-
cording to my Invention; and Figure 2, is an elevation of one of the
vessels for containing grain or granular matters to be dried. a, a, are
two rotatory fans; b, b, are two cockles, which are arranged and heated
by a fire-place in the interior, as is well understood, and therefore need
not be shown or described; c, c, are three revolving vessels or apparatus
to contain the grain or granular matters to be dried. The vessels
receive a continuous rotatory movement by the chain from the driving
pulley on the axis of one of the apparatus c, as is shown, and motion is
communicated from a pulley moving on this axis to the fans a, a, by
the means shown or otherwise. On the axis of each of the apparatus
or vessels c, are inclined blades, which, remaining with the axis, cause
the grain or granular matter to be turned as the apparatus or vessel c,
turns; when for grain or granular matter the apparatus or vessels c, are
cylinders of perforated metal, closed at bottom when for drying fibrous
materials. I prefer these apparatus or vessels c, to consist of an open
cylinder, closed at bottom, composed of a series of upright parallel bars;
and when for drying bricks or substances, which can be piled openly on
a platform, then I prefer to use simply a revolving table c. The form,
however, of this part of the apparatus may be varied so long as the
same are made capable of turning so as continuously to present a
different part of the surface to the action of the streams of heated air pro-
pelled against them. The apparatus, combined and arranged as shown and
described, is to be fitted up in a suitable room or building, with openings
below the fans for admitting fresh air thereto; and the room or building
is to be sufficiently open over and near the apparatus c, in order that
the air charged with moisture coming from the matters carried by the
apparatus c, may get readily away. The Drawing shows in the plan
two fans acting with two cockles and three apparatus c, but these may
be varied. The cockles and the fans are the same height as the
When the machinery is at work streams of air will be
apparatus c.

page_text: "driven against the exterior surfaces of the cockles, and such air becoming
heated will be driven towards the matters carried by the apparatus or
vessels c, and will enter amongst such matters, and thereby take up
moisture therefrom, and dry the same.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the
'manner of performing the same, I would have it understood that I
make no claim to the parts separately. But what I claim is, the com-
bination of machinery or apparatus herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Barsham, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of November,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
three
Witness,
FRED HARRIS.
JOHN BARSHAM. (L.S.)