An Improved Appliance for Distributing Materials over Heated Plates for Drying Purposes
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for Distributing Materials over Heated
Plates for Drying Purposes,
I, HENRY WINCKLER, of 110, Cannon Street, London, E.C., in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to distribute materials over heated plates in
such a manner that the heat is utilized to the greatest possible extent.
For this purpose I use certain attachments on chains and in combination with
each other.
The chains are drawn over the plates in a manner similar as in the case of
conveyors and the attachments hereby come in contact, turn over and
redistribute the materials.
These attachments now have the following form. They are partly in the form
of ploughs or double ploughs, one standing next to the other; partly in the
form of rakes, either one rake extending over the whole width of the drying
plates, or in sections and standing at angles towards each other, and partly
also in the form of rollers for the purpose of pressing the materials again on to
the heated plates.
The whole arrangement to be used as follows:-The ploughs are attached to
the chain or chains in a row crossways to the run of the chain or chains over the
width of the drying surface, one plough standing next to the other having
openings of a width as most suitable for the material to be dried between them.
These ploughs when drawn over the plates will stir and throw up the material,
thereby turning that part which was nearest the plates to the top. The ploughs
are followed by the rakes also attached crossways to the chains, and being either
in one piece or in sections standing at angles to each other and extending over
the whole width of the drying surface, will respread the material over the
heated plates. The rakes then being followed by a roller, also attached
crossways to the chains, the material is by this pressed on to the heated plates.
The roller is again followed by ploughs and so on the chain or chains being in
the form of endless bands.
The arrangement may of course be varied as preferred or most suited to the
material to be dried, or each kind of attachment may be used by itself alone.
They may also be interspersed by plates attached crossways to the chains in
one piece or in pieces to accelerate the forward movement of the material over
the heating surface if such should not be caused quickly enough by the
described attachments.
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page_text: An Improved Appliance for Distributing Materials over Heated
Plates for Drying Purposes.
1, HENRY WINCKLER, of 110, Cannon Street, in the City of London,
Manufacturer, 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:
The object of my invention is to manufacture improved appliances for
distributing and conveying materials over heated plates, tiles or surfaces for
drying purposes in such a manner that the heat is utilized to the greatest
possible extent..
The chain or chains in the form of endless bands are drawn over chain wheels
as in the case of conveyors over the heated surface, at such a distance from
the latter that the attachments come in contact with the material on the surface
and convey turn over and redistribute it.
These attachments now have the following form. They are partly in the
_form of short plates in a line crossways to the run of the chain or chains. They
are fixed on an iron band which is attached to the chain, and stand at angles to
each other with intervals between each other. Both angles and intervals are
determined by the kind of material to be dried. Another kind of attachment
I use is in the form of ploughs or double ploughs similarly attached to the chain
or chains as the plates. I further employ rakes either in the form of one long
rake or in short pieces and attached in the same way as the plates, and I also use
rollers attached crossways to the chain or chains.
The whole arrangement is now used as follows:-The attachments of plates
when drawn through the material partly push or rake the same forward and
partly leave it in heaps by the spaces between the plates. The ploughs which
are arranged in such a way that they follow the spaces between the plates,
turn over the material so that those parts which were at the bottom come to the
top. The rake or rakes then following redistribute the material in an even
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layer over the plates or surface, and a roller coming next presses it down.
again comes a row of plates followed by ploughs then rakes and so on.
In order that my said invention may be particularly described and ascertained
reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 shows a side elevation of the arrangement with the attachments a,
plates, b, ploughs, c, rakes, and d, roller, the chain A and chain wheels B.
Fig. 2. is a plan of the same arrangement. Fig. 3 shows the different
attachments, a, b, c, d.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. An appliance for conveying materials ever heated plates tiles or surfaces
for drying purposes in such a manner that the materials are in turn distributed
turned over and redistributed by the appliance, the appliance being in the
form of attachments of which each kind has its special purpose in the conveying
distributing turning over and redistributing in such a way that each kind of
attachment leaves the material in the proper manner for the next following
to operate upon, the attachments being fixed to one or more chains drawn over
chainwheels in the form of endless bands, the attachments being in the form
of plates standing at angles toward each other and fixed in a line crossways

page_text: to the run of the chain or chains on an iron band attached to the chains followed
by ploughs, rakes and rollers all similarly arranged and attached to the chain
or chains as the plates, in succession as best suited to the material to be dried,
substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the drawings.
Dated March 28th 1899.
HENRY WINCKLER.