AN IMPROVED METHOD OF TREATING RICKS OR STACKS OF HAY, CORN, AND OTHER CUT CROPS, FOR THE PURPOSE OF RENDERING THE SAME MORE FIT FOR FOOD."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Pellew Plenty, of the Eagle Iron Works, Newbury,
in the County of Berks, for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF
TREATING RICKS OR STACKS OF HAY, CORN, AND OTHER CUT CROPS, FOR THE
PURPOSE OF RENDERING THE SAME MORE FIT FOR FOOD."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Pellew Plenty at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 6th January 1880.
EDWARD PELLEW PLENTY, of the Eagle Iron Works, Newbury, in the County of
Berks. "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF TREATING RICKS OR STACKS OF HAY, CORN,
AND OTHER CUT CROPS, FOR THE PURPOSE OF RENDERING THE SAME MORE FIT FOR
FOOD."
This Invention consists in an improved method of treating ricks or stacks of hay,
corn, and other cut crops, whereby all fustiness or mould is entirely removed from
the same, and a fragrant smell is imparted to hay of the most indifferent quality,
by which means the same is rendered more palatable than would otherwise be the
case.
It has been found that hay, corn, and other cut crops, when arranged in ricks or
stacks are liable, more especially in wet seasons, to become fusty or mouldy and
otherwise deteriorated, and in order to remove such fustiness or mould I cause
steam to be introduced into the body of the rick or stack by passing the end or
ends of a pipe or pipes into the same, the opposite end or ends of such pipe or pipes
being connected with the steam space of a boiler or other suitable apparatus for the
generation of steam.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Edward Pellew Plenty in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 6th
July 1880.
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EDWARD PELLEW PLENTY, of the Eagle Iron Works, Newbury, in the County of
Berks. "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF TREATING RICKS OR STACKS OF HAY, CORN,
AND OTHER CUT CROPS, FOR THE PURPOSE OF RENDERING THE SAME MORE FIT FOR
FOOD."
My said Invention consists in an improved method of treating ricks or stacks of
hay, corn, and other cut crops, whereby all fustiness or mould is entirely removed
from the same, and a fragrant smell is imparted to hay of the most indifferent
quality, by which means the same is rendered more palatable than would otherwise
be the case.
It has been found that hay, corn, and other cut crops, when arranged in ricks or
stacks are liable, more especially in wet seasons, to become fusty or mouldy and
otherwise deteriorated, and in order to remove such fustiness or mould I cause
steam to be introduced into the body of the rick or stack by passing the end or
ends of a pipe or pipes, which are, by preference, perforated, into the same, the
opposite end or ends of such pipe or pipes being connected with the steam space of
a boiler or other suitable apparatus for the generation of steam.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which it is to be performed, I would observe in conclusion that what I
consider novel and original, and therefore claim as constituting the Invention
secured to me by the said hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is,―
The method of treating ricks or stacks, substantially as and for the purposes
herein before described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Pellew Plenty, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Third day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty.
EDWARD PELLEW PLENTY. (L.S.)