IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTRO-COATING IRON AND OTHER METALS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Minton, of No. 6, Kossuth Terrace,
Victoria Park Station, in the County of Middlesex, for the Inven-
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Minton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
30th October 1869.
I, ALFRED MINTON, of No. 6, Kossuth Terrace, Victoria Park Station,
in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTRO-COATING IRON AND OTHER METALS,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in electro-coating iron
and other metals. For this purpose the metals with which the iron or
other metal is to be coated, such as tin, lead, zinc, or other metal or
alloy of metals, is dissolved in muriatic, sulphuric, or other acids, and
diluted in a large bath or tank of water. The sheets to be coated are
placed in the bath and supported by bars or wires of iron or other

page_text: metal and a jet of steam is passed through the bath. The sheets
after being coated are dried rapidly by being passed through hollow
rollers heated by steam, or are otherwise rapidly dried immediately after
being taken from the bath.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alfred Minton in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 30th April 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
MINTON, of No. 6, Kossuth Terrace, Victoria Park Station, in the
County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty.
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, IIer heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Alfred Minton, Her special licence that
I, the said Alfred Minton, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Alfred Minton, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IEPROVEMENTS IN ELECTRO-COATING
IRON AND OTHER METALS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Alfred Minton, my exccutors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
scals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alfred Minton, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-

page_text: This Invention has for its object improvements in electro-coating iron
and other metals. For this purpose the metal with which the iron or
other metal is to be coated, such as tin, lead, zinc, or other metal or
alloy of metals, is dissolved in hydrochloric or sulphuric or other acid
in the case when iron is to be coated with tin or zinc; I by preference
employ hydrochloric acid in a purer state than the ordinary muriatic
acid of commerce. The solution of a metallic salt thus obtained I
dilute with water in the proportion of about 1 quart of metallic solution
to 100 gallons of water. The vessel in which the diluted solution is con-
tained I by preference form of or line with earthenware. The metal to
be coated after having been previously pickled in the ordinary manner
is placed in the bath, and is supported therein by preference by pegs or
rods of earthenware, and a jet of steam is admitted at the bottom of
the bath; I by preference take the steam from a steam boiler at a
pressure of about 20 lbs. to the inch. When the metal is sufficiently
coated it is taken out and rapidly dried either by placing it in a highly
heated chamber, or in the case of sheets of metal they may be dried by
passing them between highly heated rollers, or other means may be
adopted for rapidly drying the metal.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Minton, have hereunto set
my band and scal, this Twenty-ninth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
ATERED MINTION