US312002A

US312002A - George miller

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Publication number: US312002A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-02-10
Anticipated expiration: 1902-02-10

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G. MILLER.

MACHINE POB. DRYING BARRELS.

'PfhtenizedFebI 10, 1885.

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Nrrnn Erarns GEORGE MILLER, OF LAKE VIEW, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO DANIEL W'.

RYAN, OF SAME PLAGE. D

MACHINE FOR DRYING BARRELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,002, dated February 10, 1885.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, GEORGE MILLER, of LakeView, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Drying Barrels, `of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to machines for drying barrels in the process of making; and it consists in an inner and an outer steam-heater, with space betweensufiicient to allow an unheaded barrel to be placed therein, so that the outer heater will closely surround the outside, and the inner one will come near t-he staves on the inside of the barrel, whereby both the outside and the inside ot' the staves are quickly dried at the same time and without being Warped or dra-wn out of shape. I contemplate using the heaters so arranged both with and without an inclosing-tank.

rPhe accompanying drawings illustrate the invention.

Figure lis an elevation showing` the machine in position to receive a barrel, a portion being broken away to show the interior construction. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the machine closed, with a barrel inclosed therein.

A is an outer tank provided with a lid or cover, A. The heaters are placed within the tank, O designating the outer one and O the inner one. There is sufficient open space between the heaters to allow an unheaded barrel to pass in, so that the outer one will be outside of and the inner one inside of the barrel. rIhe heaters are best made of a single pipe, E D, which may be coiled from the top down, so as to first form the outer heater, and thence carried in at the bottom and coiled up, forming the inner heater, from the top of which it may be carried down inside of the inner one, as seen at D. rIhe heaters, however, rnay be made in any of the well-known ways of making steam or water heaters.

To facilitate the putting in and taking out of the barrel, I employ a plate, B, which is of the proper diameter to pass within the outer heater, and has an opening in the eenter ofthe proper diameter to allow the inner heater to pass through it, so that the part between the opening and the outer edge of the plate shall substantially ll the width of the open space between the heaters. This plate is suspended on rods a a attached to the cover. The cover is suspended on a cord, b, passing up over a pulley overhead, and provided with a conuterbalancingweight so arranged that slight force will raise or lower the cover with the plate suspended thereto. Guide-rods c are attached to ears on the cover, and slide up and down through holes a in ears on the tank to prevent the cover from swinging. g equally well it' attached to the tank and made to slide lthrough holes or grooves in the ears of the cover. Short tubes c ct or openings are provided in the cover to allow the vapor from the drying barrel to pass oft'.

In setting up the machine the top of the machine should be placed about on a level with the iloorvot1 the room in which it is set up, so that when the lid is raised the plate B will be brought up about even with the iioor. In this way the barrel can be rolled from the floor onto the plate without lifting.

The operation is as follows, assuming the heaters Ito be hot and the machine closed: By means of the cord o the cover is raised until the plate B is even with the Hoor, or to the position shown in Fig. 1.` rlhe barrel B is then placed on the plate, just outside of the central opening. By means of the cord the lid is now let down, and the barrel thereby The guide-rods will work` placed or lowered between the heaters, one

on the inside and the other outside, as shown in Fig. 2, in which position it is left for about thirty minutes, when it will be thoroughly dried. It is then raised out and vthe trusshoops driven home.

1. In a barrel-drier, an outer heater and an inner heater, as O C, combined and arranged with reference to each other, substantially as and for the purpose speciiied.

2. In a barreldrier, a tank, as A, provided with a lid, as A', in combination with an outer and an inner heater, as O C', substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. In a barreldrier, an outer heater, as G, and an inner heater, as O', in combination with a plate, asA B, having a central opening, and mechanism for operating the same in the space between the heaters, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

Witnesses: GEORGE MILLER.

J oHN H. WEIPPLE, DANI-EL W. RYAN.