US684780A - Corn-crib. - Google Patents

Description

No. 684,780. Patented Bot. 22, team.

a. s. BEALE.

CORN CRIB.

(Application filed Feb. 28, 1901.)

(No Model.)

NEW-TON s. BEALE, or TAMA, IOWA.

CORN-CRIB.

SECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 684,780, dated October 22, 1901. Application filed February 28, 1901. erial No. 49,182. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that LNEWTON S.BEALE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tama, in the county of Tania and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Corn-Cribs 5 and I do hereby'declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of this invention is to improve the construction of corn-cribs, so as to give proper ventilation to the corn whatever may be the general shape or superficial area of the crib.

The nature of the invention will fully appear from the description and claims following, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which shows a section in perspective of a corn-crib embodying my improvements.

The main structure A may be of the usual type, as shown, or of any other convenient form. In the drawing a single row of.ventilators is shown; but the number of these may be increased indefinitely. The ventilating apparatus is described as follows: At suitable intervals are set posts 13, stayed laterally by ties O, secured to the sides of the crib. Transverse to these ties is a hollow header D, composed of a series of boards or slats, as shown. These should extend from end to end of the crib and form an air-duct through which the outer air may circulate freely. The bottom of this duct is open, as shown, and communicates with an extension of the duct formed by a series of removable sections E. These sections are composed of uprights E, the upper ends of which are notched at E to fit under the lower slats of the permanent duct or header D, while their feet rest on the floor of the crib, and a series of cross-slats E secured to the upper portions of the uprights. When in position, the sections stand at divergent angles, as shown. In filling the crib the corn of course covers the entire floor until it reaches the lower slats of the sections, when it piles up outside them, leaving a consider= able air-space between them and in communication with the air-duct, whereby ample ventilation is afio'rded to the contents of the crib. In emptying the crib the corn is removed first from one end until the floor is reached, when it may be shoveled up from the floor. As the work proceeds, the sections may be removed or not, as may be most convenient, the open part of each section below the bottom slat allowing the operator to shovel under and between them. A special advantage arising from'the use of this simple device is that it admits of corn-cribs being built as wide as may be desired, thus securing economy in construction and greater stability against wind-storms.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is--- 1. In a corn-crib, the combination with a header or duct extending across the crib, of a series of removable sections formed of uprights and cross-slats, adapted to be set diagonally under said header and rest on the floor, substantially as described.-

2. In a corn-crib,'the combination with a header extending across the crib, of a series of removable sections composed of uprights notched at the upper end to engage the bottom of said header, and cross-slats extending part way down to the feet of said sections, substantially as described.

3. In a corn-crib, the combination with a series of slatted, removable sections, of a' slatted air-duct forming a header for said sec tions, and a series of posts and transverse ties connecting with said header, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

NEWTON s. BEALE.

Witnesses:

JOHN G. HEALD, J. M. ST. JOHN.

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