US242267A - Drier - Google Patents

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" H. N. BUZZBLL.

Driel.

Patented May 31,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HORATIO N. BUZZELL, OF PANA, ILLINOIS.

DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent-No. 242,267, dated May 31, 1881.

Application filed February 26, 1881.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HoEATio N. BUZZELL, a citizen of the United States, resident at Pana, in the county of Christian and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Driers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specitication.

Figure 1 is avertical central sectional view, and Fig.2is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line a' a: in Fig. 1.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for drying fruit or other articles.

The invention consists in the construction hereinafter described, and particularlypointed out in the claim.

In the annexed drawings, A represents a receptacle, made round or octa-gonal, and of any material, brick being preferable, as it is a good absorbent of heat.

B are furnaces in the bottom, having doors b and chimneys C. In the middle, at the bottom, is a step, D.

E is a shaft stepped in s tep D and running up through the drier Aand coming out at the roof. To this shaft are secured radial arms F in one or more series. On these arms are supported the shelves G, two or more in number; or the ends ofthe arms may be connected and short sections of gauze H laid thereon.

I I are short tubes lleadin g from the inside of the drier, at the top, to the chimneys.

(No model.)

K is the door.

Fruits, vegetables, or clothes, as the case may be, are placed on the shelves, the door closed, and fire made in the furnaces. 'Ihe shaft E is then revolved in any suitable manner, by belting or otherwise. As the heated air rises the articles are dried, the moisture leaves them, and, being whirled to the walls, it rises and passes out through the tnbesinto the chimneys. In these tubes I valves may be placed for preventing too rapid escape otthe heat or regulating its escape from the drier. A drier having two chambers, one above the other and both above the furnace, has been provided with a hollow central rotating shaft, thxough which the products of combustion pass tothe open air, spiral flanges upon the rotating shaft being relied upon to operate it. This construction is, however, not claimed herein.

What I claim is- In a` drier, the receptacle A, provided with furnaces B, chimneys C C, and valved pipes I, connecting the receptacle and chimneys, in combination with the central shaft, E, stepped in the step D, provided with the shelves GH, and adapted to be operated by external power applied tothe shaft E above the root' of the receptacle, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testilnony whereof I aftix my signature in presence ot' two witnesses.

Witnesses:

T. J. VIDLER,

W. M. TRIBBETT.

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