US286509A - Fruit-drser - Google Patents

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FRUIT URIBE., No. 286,509.v Patented Oct. 9, 1883.

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- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 286,509, dated ctober 9, 1883.

Y v Application filed March 29, i883. (No model.)

To all whom t1/nay concern:

Beit known that I, C. 'WILLIAM VETTER,

of Ukiah, in the county of Mendocino and Y new and improved apparatus for thoroughly iron sides of the stove.

and rapidly drying fruits of all kinds. l

The invention consists in a stove provided with a heating-chamber adapted to receive the i'ruitholding drawers, which drawers consist of a frame holding a perforated metal plate, and provided with two hinged covers of perforated metal plates or wire-netting, whereby fruits can be held between both surfaces of the perforated plate andthe corresponding hinged covers.

' Reference is to behad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

in which' similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

Figure l is a cross-sectional elevation of my improved fruitdrier. Fig. 2 is acperspective view of one of the fruit-holding drawers, show-` ing both the top and bottom lids open.

The stove or heater A is mounted with firebrick, to prevent the heat from destroying the The stove is provided with a door, B, on each side, and with like doors at the ends, which doors inclose the heating-chamber O, into which the fruit-holding drawers D are passed. A firebox, E, is arranged in the bottom of the stove, and from thesarne two pipes, F, extend to the top of of the stove, for carrying upward the smoke and conducting it into the upperpart of the stove above the heating chamber C, from whence it passes off through the flue G. The pipes F are provided with damper-valves H. The chamber .I is provided with an aperture, a, in oneside, for the admission of air to said chamber, wherein it isiheated by the action of the heat against the bottom of the chamber J. The heat then passes up into the heating-chamber C through a superposed perforatedplate and apertured layers of material in the bottom of the said heating-chamber, whereby the fruit in the drawers (presently described) is eX- posed to the drying action of the hot air, the moisture or vapor passing off through aper-` tures a in the top of chamber C. The fruits are placed in drawers D, composed of a. frame, D', provided with a central partition, K, of perforated sheet metal, and with two hinged covers, L, one at the top and another at the bottom, which hinged covers are made of wire-netting or perforated metal plates, and can be locked on the frame D by ring-bolts M, held to turn on the frame D, and adapted to pass through apertures N at the swinging edgesof the covers L. The frame Dis provided on theouter surface of the ends with cleats 0, which are adapted to pass into suitable grooves in the sides of the heating-chamber, whereby the fruitdrawers will be held in place.

The fruit is placed on one surface of the perforated partition .K in the frame D, and

the cover L is closed and locked, when the` drawer is inverted and fruit is placed on the other side of the partition K, and the other cover is closed and locked, the fruitbeing held between the perforated partition K and the covers L L. The drawer is then placed in the heating-chamber and exposed to the heat until the fruit is perfectly dry, the heat passing through the wire-netting covers or lids L, and through the apertures in the central partition, K.

By means of the above-described fruitdrier, the fruit can be dried thoroughly in a very short time, a large quantity of fruit can be dried in a very small space, and the fruit can be packed in the heatingchamber and re Amoved from the same very rapidly.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a fruit-drier, the fruitholding drawer D, constructed as herein shown and described, with a frame in which a perforated metal plate, K, is secured, and with two opposite hinged covers, L, Vof perforated metal plates or wire-netting, substantially as set forth.

y 2. In a fruit-holding drawer, the combination, with the frame D', ofthe perforated metal partition or plate K, the hinged'eovers L, having apertures N, and the bolts M, held to turn on the frame D', substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose .set forth.

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perforated metal plates or Wire-netting, and of perforated metal plates or Wire netting, devices for looking them on the frame D, subsubstantially as herein shown and described, 1o stantialiy as herein shown and described, and and for the Vpurpose set forth.

GHARLE WILLIAM VETTER.

for the purpose set forth.

4. In a fruit-hoidingdrawer, the combinanation, with the fralne D', provided with cleats O on the ends, of the central perforated plate or partition, K, and the hinged covers L, made

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