ments being Applicable for Drying Purposes Generally.
Year: 1885

page_text: ments being Applicable for Drying Purposes Generally.
I, WALTER JONES, of the firm of Jones and Attwood, of Enville Street,
Stourbridge in the County of Worcester, hot water engineers, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
In the ordinary method of drying the class of articles named in the title, by
means of hot water or steam pipes, such pipes are carried in flues, or otherwise in
such position, in relation to the articles to be dried, that the drying is effected
solely by the heat radiated from the pipes. Now the chief object of this invention
is to employ in the drying of bricks, and other articles of clay, porcelain, terra
cotta, or earthenware, heat conducted (not simply radiated) from the pipes to the
articles.
According to this invention bricks, or other articles of clay, porcelain, terra cotta,
or earthenware, to be dried, are laid upon metal plates, or upon tiles or bricks,
resting direct upon hot water or steam pipes, and thus the heat from such pipes is
conducted direct to the plates, tiles, or bricks, resting thereon, and from thence
direct to the bricks or other articles to be dried.
A convenient application of this invention consists in forming tiers of shelves of
hot water or steam pipes having plates, tiles, or bricks resting thereon to receive
the bricks or other articles to be dried, and thus much saving of room is effected
over having a single drying floor or platform in one plane.
Exhaust steam may, of course, be employed as the heating medium within the
pipes, where found convenient.
The employment of the above-described means of drying bricks or other articles
of clay, porcelain, terra cotta, or earthenware, effects economy in time and fuel,
improves the quality of the finished articles owing to the greater evenness,
regularity and uniformity of the process, and considerably reduces the risk of
wasters or inferiors.
The above-described invention is applicable, as will be readily understood, for
drying purposes generally.

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CREDITS THE ATTICLES OF
Clay, Porcelain, Terra Cotta, or Earthenware, such Improve-
ments being Applicable for Drying Purposes Generally.
I, WALTER JONES, of the firm of Jones and Attwood, of Enville Street,
Stourbridge in the County of Worcester, hot water engineers, 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,
reference being had to the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference
marked thereon (that is to say) :-
In the ordinary method of drying the class of articles named in the title, by
means of hot water or steam pipes, such pipes are carried in flues, or otherwise, in
such position in relation to the articles to be dried that the drying is effected solely
by the heat radiated from the pipes.
Now, the chief object of this invention, is to employ in the drying of bricks, and
other articles of clay, porcelain, terra cotta, or earthenware, heat conducted (not
simply radiated) from the pipes to the articles.
According to this invention, bricks, or other articles of clay, porcelain, terra
cotta, or earthenware, to be dried, are laid upon metal plates, or upon tiles or
bricks, resting direct upon hot water or steam pipes, and thus the heat from such
pipes is conducted direct to the plates, tiles, or bricks, resting thereon, and from
thence direct to the bricks, or other articles to be dried.
A convenient application of this invention consists in forming tiers of shelves of
hot water or steam pipes having metal plates, or tiles, resting thereon, to receive
the bricks or other articles to be dried, and thus much saving of room is effected
over having a single drying floor or platform in one plane.
This invention will be readily understood on reference to the accompanying
drawings, which illustrate the modification of my invention when employed in the
case of tiers of shelves, and, by way of example, the apparatus is shewn as
applicable to the drying of bricks though, as will be readily understood, a
similar arrangement applicable for drying the other articles named in the
title. Figure 1 is a cross section through the lower part of a building containing
four sets of tiers of drying shelves arranged longitudinally therein, and figure 2 is
a plan of one end of the building shewing the arrangement of heating pipes, but
omitting the covering or shelves to such pipes, for convenience of illustration.
The same letters of reference occurring upon both these views indicate corre-
sponding parts.
A A are the walls of the building, and B B the floor.
a a etc are the hot water
or steam pipes, and 6 6 etc metal plates lying upon the pipes a a etc. c c etc. are
the bricks under the process of drying, being simply laid for this purpose upon the
plates b b etc.
The bricks are shewn only in the two sets of tiers of shelves to the
left-hand of the drawing. The two outer sets of tiers are shewn narrower than
the two inner sets, as they can be filled in from one side only.

page_text: The pipes can be supported by any metal or other suitable stands or supports, as
will be readily understood without need for illustration, and the pipes must be of
course suitably connected together to cause proper circulation of the hot water or
steam therein, as is the usual practice in heating by hot water or steam, and
therefore will be readily understood without detailed description.
Exhaust steam may, of course, be employed as the heating medium within the
pipes, where found convenient.
If it is preferred to dry the bricks, or other articles, on a flat drying floor, the
floor-plates, tiles, or bricks, simply rest upon the hot water or steam pipes exactly
in the manner in which they are shewn so to rest by figure 1, but in such case, of
course, the whole series of pipes, for a floor fixed at one uniform level or slant, are
in the same plane; and thin supporting walls for the joints of the plates, tiles or
bricks may be employed, if desired.
The employment of the above means of drying bricks or other articles of clay,
porcelain, terra cotta, or earthenware, effects economy in time and fuel, improves
the quality of the finished articles owing to the greater evenness, regularity,
and uniformity, of the process, and considerably reduces the risk of wasters or
inferiors.
The above-described invention is applicable also, as will be readily understood,
for drying purposes generally.
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. In apparatus for drying bricks, and other articles of clay, porcelain, terra
cotta, or earthenware, or for other ordinary drying purpose, the means by which
heat from hot water or steam pipes is conveyed direct to the material or articles to
be dried, that is to say, resting plates, tiles or bricks, which support such material
or articles, directly upon the pipes, as herein described.
2. The modification of my invention (illustrated by the drawings herewith, by
way of example, as applied to the drying of bricks), according to which tiers of
drying shelves are formed, each shelf consisting of plates (or tiles) resting on hot
water or steam pipes, as herein described and for the purpose set forth.
Toted this treanto ninth dow of Two 1000