US110601A - Improvement in malt-reservoirs - Google Patents

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ttttri %i'ctr5 @anni attire CHARLES STOLL, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK,

Letters Patent No. 110,601da.ted December 27, 1870.

IM PROVEI-WENT kIN MALT-RES'E RVOI'RS.

The Schedule referred to ln these Letters Patent and making part of the saune To all lwhom, tt may concern:A

Be it known that I, CHARLES Sronn, of Brooklynhin the county .of Kings and State of New York, havev invented a new and improved Malt-Reservoir; and Ido hereby declare the-following to bea full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make. and use the same,

reference being had to the accompanying drawing' forming part of this specification, in'which drawing- Figure l represents a vertical section of this invention in the plane a: w, g. 3. Figure 2 is a similar section of the same in the plane y y, lig. 3. v

Figure 3 is a horizontal section of the same. Similar letters indica-te corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a malt-reservoir, which. is builtin the form of a tower, and divided by verf tical partitions in three compartments; oneV to form the well of anelev'ator, and the others to receive malt of dili'ereutkind, the elevator being provided wit-l1 two spouts, one to each malt-compartment,

while the malt-compartments have inclined bottoms,

forming a hopper, which is closed at its mouth by two slides, which serve t0 let ont the malt from the two compartments in lsuch a manner that the malt being stored in a tower, is supplied with a snflcientv quantity of l'resh air to prevent it from molding; and furthermore, no dust can get to the malt, and it can be readily kept out of contact with the light and with moisture, so that it isr not liable to sprout; and

:the necessity ofhandling the same is avoided, since it can be readily caused to slide down from the tower to the mill, and into the malt-hous`eor brewery; and by providing the tower with two malt-compartments with a common outlet, malt'of different kinds can be .readily mixedpartition f (see g. l) in two compartments corresponding to or forming parts of the malt-compartments c d. t

The outlet of each of these compartments is coutrolled by a slide, g or h, tted'in the mputh of the hopper D, and operated by hand-levers c' j, or by any other suitable means. y

It' both slides are thrown'open, the two kinds of malt contained in the compartments c d are mixed, but if one of theslides is closed and the other opened only one kind of malt discharges.

As the malt discharges from the compartments cd itis conducted immediately v'to the brewery below, and -no further handling of the same is required. The outside walls of the tower A are intended to be double, so as to protect the malt electually against the influence of atmospheric changes, and by storing the malt in a tower rising from the top of the malthous'e, it is placed in such a posit-ionthat itis exposed to sulicient draught of air to prevent it from heating or molding orfrom spronting; and furthermore it is kept free from all dust .and from contact with the light, and after it has been onceelevated to the tower,

it requires no further handling.

In my reservoir maltoan be preserved for a long time; and if it is desired to turn the same over to be refreshed it c an be readily made t0 run down, and then again elevated without requiring any hand labor, the elevator being driven by power.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isf- I The arrangement of a tower, A, having double walls to keep out the moisture and light, and' divided in three vcompartments c cl e, one for the elevator and the two others to receive dilerent kinds of malt, the elevator being provided with two spouts, one for each .malt-compartment, and the malt-compartments, being closed at the bottom by a common hopper provided with slides which allow of mixing. the two kinds of malt or of discharging each kind of malt independj ent of the other, as herein shown and described.

CHARLES STOLL.

Witnesses:

EDWARD Hans, W. HAUFF.

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