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Letters Iatent N 98,470, dated January 4, 1870.

DRIER.

The Schedule referred to these Letters Patent and making part o! the stuitteA I MPM We, ALBERT WQGOX and WILLIAM GAUSE, both of Indianapolis', Marion county, Indiana, have invented a new and useful Drying-House, of which the following isl a specification.

Nature and Object of the Invention.r i

This is' an improvement in the class of apparatus employed for drying fruit, vegetables, clothing, 85e., and which comprises a more or less closed chamber, having suitable racks orvshelves, for the articles to be dried, and a stove, forproducing the requisite heat; and.

Our iuventionconsists in- First, an arrangement of smoke-dues and caliducts, for the equable and effective distribution of heat.

Secondly, a provision for drawing or directing the heat to one or other side of the chamber.

Thirdly, a means-of super-heating or drying all moist air or vapor that may accumulate in the upper part of the drying-chamber.

General Description, 'with Reference to the Drawings.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of our drying-apparatus, with its doors open.

Figure 2.is a vertical section in the plane of the smoke-pipes.

Figure 3 is a section of the heater on the line :za-x.

A is the drying-chamber, similar to a wardrobe, having in front one or more doors, y, and at top a steam or vapor-receptacle, O, which communicates with the drying-chamber below, by orices c.

The drying-chamber is occupied at bottom by our I heater, whichconsists of a stove,D, from whose upper part there brauch ott' two dat and broad ues E E', which, outside ofthe chamber, enter vertical lines F F', having dampers f f The tlues F F, at their upper ends, enter a pipe, G, which traverses horizontally the upper part of the drying-chamber.

. From the middle of the pipeG, the smoke-discharge pipe H rises through the steam-receptacle C, and above the top thereof'.

The smoke-discharge pipe H has a vertical seriesof apertures, h,whose size permits the free passage of vapor into the pipe, while preventing the escapeof sparks or ignited fragments therefrom.

A sliding register, I, having a handle, t', which projects through the top of the house, enables the opening or closing of the apertures h, at will.

, Our hoteairpassagc or caliduct passes up in rear of the stove at K, and over the top thereof at K', and

discharges into the drying-chamber, through orifices L L', immediately over the broad ues E E', whose heat, being abstracted by the air, ascends with a nearly equable tlow through the drying-chamber.

M is a ap, to afford access to the caliduct, for cleansing or otherwise.

N are racks, to receive articles to be dried.

Openings c o', closable by shutters O O', enable a portion or all of the heat generated in the dryinghouse to be quickly liberated, so as to reduce the ternperature within, and/this heat may be employed to warm one or more' apartments, when desired.

Operation.

A tire being made in the stove, and fruit, or other articles to bc dried, being placed upon the racks N, the air escaping from the caliducts K K', impiuges on the tops of the Ilues E E', and becoming highly heated, passes upward through the racks, and about the articles to be desiccated.

Should any irregularity of action occur, it can be iu- 'stantly checked by opening thc damper f or f', on the l The drying-chamber A, communicating with theY vapor-chamber O, by numerous orifices c, the ascend# ing currents of heated air are drawn equally upward and with uniform eect at every part.

` W'e claim, as our'inventionl. The described arrangement of stove to caliduct K K', orifices L L', aud broad ilues E E', for the ob` ject designated.

2. In combinationwith the elements K K', L L', E'

E', the side pipes F F', with the dempers f f'.

3. The arrangement of side pipes or lues F F'andV the pipe G, traversing the upper part ot' the chamber A, as and for the object stated.

In testimony of which invention. we hereunto set our hands.

ALBERT W. COX. WILLIAM GAUSE.

Witnesses as t0 00X:

GEO. H. KNIGHT, JAMES H. LAYMAN.

Witnesses as to GAUSE;

FRANK A, DIAL, HIRAM LINDLEY.

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