Improvements in Pots or Baths for the Manufacture of Large Tin and Terne Sheets.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 16th Apr., 1895-Accepted, 8th June, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Improvements in Pots or Baths for the Manufacture of Large Tin
and Terne Sheets.
WILLIAM ROBINSON, 78 Hyde Road Ardwick, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Large Tin and Lead Coating Sheet Iron Manufacturer do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My improvements relate to the special construction of the pots or baths for the
purpose of tinning and finishing large sheets of iron or other metals. On the sides
of the pot or bath at one end I cast recesses or pockets for the purpose of carrying
or supporting the rollers and so constructed as to contain the finishing flux on the
exit side of the pot or bath. By this means I dispense with the brushing and
grease pot, and can manufacture plates of any length with facility. The peculiar
arrangement of the rollers in the finishing flux box enables me to draw the sheets
through the pot or bath continuously in any required length entirely finished.
Dated this 21st day of March 1895.
WILLIAM ROBINSON.
Improvements in Pots or Baths for the Manufacture of Large Tin
and Terne Sheets.
WILLIAM ROBINSON 78 Hyde Road, Ardwick, Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, Large Tin and Terne Sheet Manufacturer 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 :-
My improvements relate to the special construction of the pot or bath for the
purpose of tinning and finishing large sheets of iron or other inetal.
I use a pot
or bath which enables me to make and finish tin and terne sheets without the use
of the wash and grease or roller finishing pots and to manufacture plates of any
length with facility. Also the arrangement of the rollers in the finishing flux box
enables me to draw the sheets through the pot or bath entirely finished.
I will now describe from the annexed drawings the construction of the pot or
bath and the method of fixing or placing the necessary rollers for the purpose of
tinning the sheets. The pot A is fixed on a seating of brickwork or other suitable
material having two furnace flues B, B under the entrance and exit sides of the pot,
by this means I can keep the entrance side of the pot at a higher or lower
temperature than the exit side of the pot, by reducing the fires in either furnace,
thus enabling me to put a heavier or lighter coating of tin or terne metal on the
sheets as may be required. The inner pot C which may be either loose or cast to
the entrance flux box D and exit finishing side E of the pot, I use for the purpose
of displacing the metal, which enables me to heat the pot quickly and at the same
time to keep the exit side of the pot at a lower temperature than the entrance side
of the pot.

page_text: The sheets are passed down the flux box D passing between the guides a, a,
and through the bottom_rollers F, F, which are fixed in pockets or recesses G
in the finishing flux box E. The sheets then pass into the guides b, b, and through
the top rollers H, H. The bottom rollers F, F, are adjusted by means of a lever
bearing Imoving on the pin X and held in position by set screws e, the top rollers
being adjusted by the screws e', e, e'. Should the sheets be not sufficiently tinned,
they are quickly passed over the top guides and again through the pot
while hot.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is performed, I do declare that what I
claim is:
The anomal
construation of the not or bath and arrangement of the flux
boxes.
2. The pockets or recesses in the finishing flux box.
3. The displacement pot.
4. Top guides.
Dated this 13th day of April 1895.
WILLIAM ROBINSON.