Improvements in Apparatus for Coating and Brushing Tin and Terne Plates.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 13th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 21st Jan., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Coating and Brushing Tin and
Terne Plates.
I, SAMUEL ROBERTS, of 26 Gerald Street, Hafod, Swansea, in the County of
Glamorgan, Tin Plate Assorter, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This invention has reference to the manufacture of tin and terne plates and is
designed to simplify the same and to effect economy in coating metal and oil or flux,
and in labour.
According to this invention the plates before emerging from the coating bath are
forced in succession, either by rolls mechanically operated or by a manually
actuated lever or like instrument, through a pair of curved guides connected to one
another and situated towards the delivery end of the tinning pot. The delivery end
of the guides is above the level of the spelter, and on issuing from the guides the
plates are passed between the brushes composed of hemp faces secured to spring
backs of steel. These brushes are supported on a bracket on which they are placed
by means of a handle fixed to the brushes.
After having been thus coated and brushed the plates are ready for washing by
the washman.
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NICHOLAS WATTS,
Bristol Bank Buildings, Bristol, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Coating and Brushing Tin and
Terne Plates.
I, SAMUEL ROBERTS, of 26 Gerald Street, Hafod, Swansea, in the County of
Glamorgan, Tin Plate Assorter, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to apparatus for coating and brushing tin and terne
plates.
The improved apparatus in which this invention consists is a coating or tin pot
fitted at the delivery end with a pair of hemp brushes to which the plates are
guided in their progress through the tin pot and between which they are passed on
emerging from the said pot. The brushes are supported in brackets bolted to the
frame of the pot.
The plates are passed into the guides in the tin pot by hand and are fed to the
brushes either manually, or through mechanically operated rolls situated below
the brushes.
Fig. 1 in the accompanying sheet of drawings represents a plan of my improved
apparatus for coating and brushing tin and terne plates.
Fig. 2 is a vertical section.
The plates as they are taken from the pickling vats, are fed by hand into the
flux box a and are pushed through the tinning pot b. By guides d they are
directed to pass to the throat e above which is a pair of hemp brushes f supported
on brackets or arms 9 from which they are readily removed, at will, by withdrawing
the bolts h arranged to slide over and hold down the handles f¹. The brushes fare

page_text: reversible in their supports g which are capable of being moved towards or from the
brushes on the pivots g'.
The plates as they pass between the brushes are thereby brushed on both faces.
In the example illustrated in the drawings the plates are, as aforesaid, passed
through the brushes by hand, but they may be mechanically passed through by
rollers placed below the throat e and rotated by suitable gearing.
After brushing, the plates are seized between manually wielded tongs and with-
drawn to be dealt with by the washman in the usual way.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
In the manufacture of tin and terne plates, the provision above the tin pot
in which the plates are coated of a pair of adjustable brushes such as between
which, on emerging from the tin pot, the plates are passed and by which they are
brushed, substantially as herein before described with reference to the accompanying
sheet of illustrative drawings.
Dated this 8th day of December 1892
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Agent.