. Mechanical appliances, mechanical movements and novelties of construction; a complete work and a continuation, as a second volume, of the author's book entitled "Mechanical movements, powers and devices" ... including an explanatory chapter on the leading conceptions of perpetual motion existing during the past three centuries. teries. The form was peculiar, being somewhat like a fish, with thepropeller at the head. It was claimed to have attained a speed oftwelve miles per hour. 370. GRAIN-DRYING APPARATUS. For tumbling grain orother material in an inchned cylinder with a blast of warm air.
. Mechanical appliances, mechanical movements and novelties of construction; a complete work and a continuation, as a second volume, of the author's book entitled "Mechanical movements, powers and devices" ... including an explanatory chapter on the leading conceptions of perpetual motion existing during the past three centuries. teries. The form was peculiar, being somewhat like a fish, with thepropeller at the head. It was claimed to have attained a speed oftwelve miles per hour. 370. GRAIN-DRYING APPARATUS. For tumbling grain orother material in an inchned cylinder with a blast of warm air. A, a brick box in which coke isburned, or a flue to conveywaste heat from any fur-nace. B, compoundwrought-iron fan, whichwill draw waste heat froma distance of 50-100 , chimney and valve, tocarry off smoke when fire is first lighted. ^, thermometer or , feed hopper, into which the grain is conveyed by an elevator frombelow, or by a chute from an upper floor. E, cylinder. F, elevating gearfor raising and depressing cylinder. G, air duct, made of different sec-. AIR-POWER MOTORS AND APPLIANCES, lU tions to suit different products. H, part of the outer shell removed toshow the cells in which the grain is carried up and poured out in a con-tinual stream; the number and pitch of these cells is also varied forvarious products. RESERVOIR ,r^
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