US114534A - Improvement in grain-drying cars - Google Patents

Description

CHARLES S.. DOLE. improvement in Grain-Drying Glare.

Patented May 9, l87`.-

5g/flaw@ dudar Stain CHARLES S. DOLE, OF CHICAGO., ILLINOIS.

Letters Patent No. 114,534, dated May 9, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN GRAIN-DRYING CARS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making past of the same.

To all whom it. may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES S. Donn, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain Improvements in Railway Cars for Drying Grain; i and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being made to the accompanying drawinig,` which, together with the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, forms part of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a side view of a car constructed according to my invention, being partly Iin section Figure 2V is a plan or top .view of the same; and

Figure 3, an end or cross-section on linex of tig. 2.

Like letters of reference made use of in the several figures indicate like parts.

General Description.

My invent-ion relates to a car made with` several compartments, divided by hollow or double partitions, arisingr from the platform or door of the car. These several compartments are made with perforated sides or of Slat-work.

The hollow partitions are open at the bottom through the floor of the car, and are closed at the top Grain to be dried is placed in this car, the several compartments being filled, and the car run into an 'oven or kiln, the heated air of which arises into the hollow partitions and passes through the perforated or Slat-work sides thereof in among the grain, whereby it is effectually dried,.after which the car may be re-` moved into the cool airtoan elevator.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same with particularity, reference being had in so doing to the aforesaid drawing.

A is the platform or door of the car, which may rest upon the ordinary trucks.

This platform supports a number of uprights, a, which form part of the superstructure.

' The car is made into several compartments, Bx B2 B B", the division being preferablymade across the car.

C are the hollow partitions or dues for the admis- Vsion of air, which separate the several compartments.

These flues are made to open through the plat- A form of the car, and are constructed at the sides of Slat-work, so arranged that the grain placed in the compartments B B2 B3 l?.4 cannot pass through into the fines, but yet affording free passage for the air from the flue into the grain.

These sides may also be made of perforated metal if thought preferable, or of wire-netting, the object being always to so construct the dues as to allow of the air passing into the grain While 'the grain is held from entering the flue, but I prefer to make them of slats.

The ends of these partitions or dues are closed, as

at D, and said dues are likewise closed at the top, as at E, so that the heated air, to effect its escape from the ilue, must pass throughthe lslat-u'rork or perforated sides int-o the grain. The compartments 131,850., are open at all sides, the ends, as at- F, being made perforated or of the Slat-work, and the sides being constituted, of course, by the partitions, excepting the two outer or endV compartments B1 B", where the ends of -the car Gr` G form one side of each; these ends arel likewise made perforated or of slat-work.

The tops of said compartments are left entirely open, while the bottom or platform beneath the said compartment-s is perforated or pierced with numerous holes, so that a portion of the hot air may pass directly thereinto from beueath.

The platform of the car A is made with a double incline or crown, as seen in fig. 3; and a door or trap, H, is provided at each end of each of the several compartments, by'means of which the grain is withdrawn from the car when desired.

This platform may be made with a single incline extending from one side to the other, 'if preferred, when a single trap or door, H, at the lower side of each compartment, will sulice.

The grain is loaded into the car from above; the covers ofthe dues or partitions being made in a roofshape or double incline no grain lodges therein.

This car may be run up to an elevator and loaded, after which it may be conveyed to the oven or dryingkiln, constructed with a trackrunninginto the same; after it is dried the car may be run outinto the open air and allowed to cool, and then run to another elevatorto be stored, all without handling the grain but twice, once to load and once to unload.

I may also make my car with the platform A continuous,`but perforated with numerous holes, and the hollow partitions may be made movable upon this platform, in which case the sides and ends of the car are made independent of the partitions. but otherwise similarly constructed. x

When constructed of slats itmay be desirable that ,they should he pivoted or hinged, so that they may be closed when the car is run out of the oven or kiln and over a rough track, .which would be likely to shake the grain out if the slats were not closed.

It will be readily understood that the car above described is notpstrictly speaking, such a railway car as would be adapted to the transportation of grain to any great distanceas iu ordinary freight-cars, as this would be impracticable without a roof, because of the not contemplate in general any such use.

Having thus fully described the construction and operation of my invention,

What I claim, and desire to sccnrc by Letters Pateut, is-

. 1. The vertical,compartments Bl B2 B B4, with sides constructed to hold the grain and allow free admission of air-when separated one from the other by .hollow partitions or ues in. a car for drying grain,

substantially as specified.

2. The car for drying grain, herein described, made with a perforated platform, A, and several compartl ments B B2 133134, separated byvertical iiues or hollow partitions, the sides of which are constructed to allow'the air to circulate through the grain contained in the car, substantially as speciiied.

v i GHAS. S. DOLE.

Witnesses: L. L. GOBURN, JN0. W. lliUNDAY.`

Images