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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
EDGAR MILES WOODS, OF GLADEWATER, TEXAS.
SWEET-POTATO-CURING HOUSE.Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Jan. 6,1920.
Application filed January 30, 1919. Serial No. 274,025.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, EDGAR M. WoODS, a
citizen of the United States, residing at
Gladewater, in the county of Gregg and
5 State of Texas, have invented certain new
and useful Improvements in Sweet-Potato-
Curing Houses; and I do declare the fol-
lowing to be a full, clear, and exact descrip-
tion of the invention, such as will enable
10 others skilled in the art to which it apper-
tains to make and use the same.
My invention relates to houses for curing
sweet potatoes and has for its principal ob-
ject to provide a building of this character
15 so constructed, heated and ventilated, as to
prevent rotting of the potatoes, even though
they may be more or less green or damp.
In carrying out the above object, further
objects are to locate the sweet potato bins
20 in a convenient manner and so as to allow
ample circulation of air around them; to
provide each bin with a hollow open work
partition of novel construction, into which
currents of air are forced to more effectively
25 dry the potatoes; to provide for admitting
atmospheric air into the partitions when the
weather conditions permit; to devise a novel
arrangement of heating pipes; and to pro-
vide means whereby warm air may be sup-
30 plied to the entire interior of the building
at the same temperature, or may travel to a
part thereof at a greater or lower tempera-
ture than to the remainder.
With the foregoing in view, the invention
35 resides in the novel arrangement and con-
struction of parts hereinafter fully de-
scribed and claimed, reference being made
to the accompanying drawings which form
a part of this application.
40 Figure 1 is a central, vertical, longitudi-
nal section through a sweet potato curing
house constructed in accordance with my
invention.
Fig. 2 is a section through the walls of
45 the building on the two horizontal planes
indicated by line 2-2 of Fig. 1 to show the
windows 11 and doors 16, all of the bins and
partitions in the building being shown in
top plan view.
50 Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section
taken on the three planes designated by the
line 3-3 of Fig. 2.
Fig. 4 is a horizontal section of the build-
ing in which the air is heated and fromwhich it is forced through the heating pipes 55
of the curing house.
Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional view cut
longitudinally of the curing house, disclos-
ing one of the bins and its hollow partition
in transverse section. 60
Fig. 6 is a fragmentary side elevation of
the bin and partition seen in Fig. 5.
In the drawing above briefly described,
the numeral 1 designates a preferably elon-
gated rectangular building having a suit- 65
able roof 2 provided with a slatted venti-
lator 3, the sides of the building and floor
thereof being preferably of any appropriate
weather proof construction. Within the
building 1, a number of transverse slatted 70
bins 4 are provided, transverse aisles 5 be-
ing provided between said bins while a
longitudinal aisle 6 extends along one end
thereof and communicates with the trans-
verse aisles. The ends of the bins 4 remote 75
from the aisle 6, abut one side wall 7 of the
building 1, and with the exception of these
ends, free circulation of air is permitted
around the bins and over them. In addition
to providing for the free circulation.of air, 80
the aisles 5 and 6 serve as passages for re-
moving the potatoes as required, each bin
being provided with a suitable number of
hinged doors 8 which may be opened to
allow the discharge of the potatoes into the 85
aisles 5; and a suitable number of doors 9
may be provided at suitable points around
the building for carrying out the potatoes
and for entering the building to generally
inspect the condition of its contents, as well 90
as to regulate the dampers which con-
trol the supply of warm air. The upper
portion of the building 1 immediately below
the ceiling 10 is provided with appropriate
windows 11 which admit sunlight and may 95
be opened if required for ventilating pur-
poses, and suitable trap doors or the like 12
are by preference provided in the ceiling 10
to allow the upward escape of the heated
air, so that it may leave through the venti- 100
lator 3.Located centrally in each of the bins 4 and
extending approximately from end to end
thereof, and from the bottom of the bin to
a point spaced a slight distance below its
top, is a hollow open-work partition 13
formed of slatted walls 14 diverging up-
wardly to. a slight extent, and an arched,105
1,327,130.
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