The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-10-17
TIN PLATE LORE,
Tho Process OF Making Tln-From
tho Orc to the Plato.
DOMESTIC AND COMMERCIAL TIN.
Where tho Article Is Manufactured
In this Country.-hdvnntngcs En-.
joycd Hero Over Other Countries.
Some Of Governor Campbcll's lad
Ercales..cost OF ManuGacture-Dcn.
Gifts OF the Mckinley Tdfim:


bTlNfH IF ft IHtHIyCIEtT.
For commercial purposes tin plates
are divided into two classes, which arc
termed charcoal plates and cooke
plates" according rs charcoal or coke is
used in tho manufacture OF IRON bars
from which tho plates are rolled. Tho
plates arc carefully cleaned and pickled
by being immersed in hot diluted sui
phuric acid. The sheets arc placed on
edge in n wooden rack made for the
purpose and the whole immersed in
acid. 4 mechanical arrangement i'm.
parts to the rack holding the sheets q
regular up and down motion, thus
maintaining 4 circulation in tho acid
bath. When all tho scale or oxide
has been dissolved the rack holding the
sheets is Immersed and the whole
washed several times in fresh water.
The sheets arc then dried, packed in
anncaling boxes or pots and annealcd
twelve to twenty-iour hours in q rever.
bcratory furnace. This soitens the
sheets and they will readily take n
polish when cold rolled in the next
operation. The sheets aro passed
singly through a series OF heavy high
polished cold rolls. Alter tho rolling
the sheets become harsh, and to re-
move this they are again anncaled in
the same way. They are then picked
the second time.
The sheets are plunged into heated
ta!low TO drive away the water without
oxidation OF the metal. They are
next placed in 4 bath of molten ferru.
ginous, then pure tin. In this they
soak twenty minutes, the tinman
constantly openin. and r%copcning
the pack with his tongs. The tin
man hands them to tho washman.
who plunses them into the wash pot
filled with tin. They are next placed
upon 4 flat iron plate; the washman
brushes the two sides, removing the
excess OF tin between them. To give
the sheets a polish the sheets are
dipped one at q time into the smaller
compartments OF the wash pot. Without
removing the sheet IRON the tongs it is
passed between Il pair OF steel rolls into
the patent pot. Passing through these
rolls into tin below, it is caught, moved
along and raised by means OF 4 cradle to
meet another pair OF rolls, revolving in
the SURFACE OF the tin bath, thus, as one
sheet is rolled into the bath another is
rolled out. The sheets are placed in q
rack to cool, after which they are
rubbed with sawdust or bran to remove
the grease and polished with flannel or
buckskin and removed into the sorting
o ior examination and classification.
The tests are durability, strength and
color. This is bright tin, used princi-
pally for domestic purposes. From 93
to 81 per cent OF tin plate is iron or
steel. Only the coating is tin. Owing
to the competition in Wales some OF the
: tin plate sen to this country is almost
worthless. Any old piece OF tinwarc
will show that the coating is very light.
Some persons believe that tin plate is
all tin through and through.
Tcrne tin plate Tor roofing purposes
is made by almost the same process.
About IS per cent OF this is steel or
iron, 3! per cent lead and u per cent
tin. The word terne signifies 4 COM
position.
AMERICAN TIN PLATE
Bright tin plate was made at the
Etna Iron and Steel Works here in
1889, and at the Pittsburgh, Pa, Expo
%sition, by Morgan & Sons, OF Martins
: Ferry, in October that year, which was
pronounced equal to any imported tin
plate. Mr.. Joseph NJ. Waters, 4 friend
OF mine, living in this city, had a tea
pot made out OF the Exposition tin and
it has lasted twice as long as any other
II they ever used, and it is still good.
Tiny plate was made at Wcllsville,
Ohio, Lcechburg, Pa, and Dcmmler,
Pa, in lS73-75. There was very little
duty on tin plate then and the industry
was short-lived. The Welsh manuiac-
turers cut the prices from S13 to $40,
then 50, S., s., S., s., and finally down
to 81 80 per box, less than the cost OF
manufacture, all to crush out the indus
try which was getting i foothold in this
country. E
Bright tin plate has been made by
the st. Louis Stamping Co. ut st. Louis,
Mo-, Tor many months and tho. quality
is excellent. This firm made 800 boxes
day as early as last February. The tin
plate plant OF this company. when COM
plctcd, will cover seven acres, cost $780,
600 and employ 600 hands.
The United States Iron and Tin Man
ufacturinG Co. at Demmlcr, Pa, is max
ing a. No. l bright" tin plate in COM
mercial quantities and has been for
months. No better is made in tine
world. This firm has testimonials from
timers and dealers all oyer the United
States. Mr.. Conrad Long, a Democratic
timer IN this place for So years has been
using this tin, says it works up to a
better advantage than thcimported, and
ii anything is better. Experienced tin
workers from Wales who examined it
tell me it is first class. No stock is for
sale in this mill. Mr.. Aug. Koershcn,
another timer here, is using roofing
tin plate, rolled nj ~Cannonsbusg, Pa,
and coated by Fleming and Hamilton,
OF Pittsburgh, Pa, and tells me it is the
best heever saw.
+. II. Lauiman & Co., OF Apolla, Pa,
are making terne tin plate for roofing,
and have been shipping by the car load
all this year. Caldwell 4 Peterson,
%roofcrs, OF Wheeling, W. Va, got 4 car
load last week and pronounce it first
class, and could write OF others who
nrc manufacturing it.
The steel sheets, the foundation OF
nil tin plate. are rolled in this country
by American workmcn and are as gen
timely American as plates from Wales
are Welsh. At Irondale, O., near here,
n large tin plate mill is nearly COM
plcted. l saw it myself the other day.
The n. G. Taylor Co.'s tin plate mill at
Philadelphia is being enlarged and will
soon be making bright plate" Large
mills arc being erected in various parts
OF the United States, and several roll
z ing mills are getting ready to make tin