Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Dec., 1887
Complete Left, 28th Jan., 1888
Complete Accepted, 2nd Mar., 1888
I, THOMAS ANDERSON, Manager of the Anglo-American Tin Stamping Company,
Limited, of Stourport, in the County of Worcester do hereby declare the nature of
the said invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to the tinning of hollow-ware and other articles, and is
designed to provide for effecting this result with a smaller quantity of tin than is
required in the processes hitherto adopted, thus reducing the cost of manufacturing
tinned articles.
My said invention comprises an improved method or process whereby I am enabled
to remove or strip off from the article, after it has been coated with tin, a larger
quantity of this metal than can be removed by the processes heretofore adopted.
In carrying my said invention into practice, I first coat the hollow-ware, plates or
other articles with tin in the usual or any suitable manner. I then proceed as follows,
that is to say I place the articles thus coated in a grease-pot such as is usually
employed in tinning iron, steel, or tin plates, and in which there has previously been
placed a box or receptacle of metal or other suitable material which is filled with or
contains molten tin. I suspend the articles to be treated in the said grease-pot upon racks,
hooks, pegs or the like in such a manner that their edges dip into, or are in contact
with the metal in the said box or receptacle. The molten metal attracts the tin upon
the plate or other article and draws off the same to a greater or less extent according
to the time during which the articles are left in contact with the said metal in the
box or receptacle.
In some instances I dispense with the said box or receptacle and place the body of
molten tin directly in the grease-pot, the edges of the articles being placed in contact
with the said metal.

page_text: By the process above described I can tin articles very effectively, using from twenty
to twenty-five per cent. less tin than has heretofore been necessary.
Articles tinned by my process are perfectly coated with tin and are as bright as
articles treated by the processes heretofore usually employed.
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HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Tinning of Hollow-ware and other
Articles.
I, THOMAS ANDERSON, Manager of the Anglo American Tin Stamping Company,
Limited, of Stourport, in the County of Worcester, 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 invention relates to the tinning of hollow-ware and other articles, and is designed
to provide for effecting this result with a smaller quantity of tin than is required in
the processes hitherto adopted, and in this manner to reduce the cost of manufacturing
tinned articles.
My said invention comprises an improved method or process whereby I am enabled
to remove or strip off from the article, after it has been coated with tin, a larger
quantity of this metal than can be removed by the processes heretofore adopted.
In carrying my said invention into practice, I first coat the plates or other articles
with tin in the usual or any suitable manner.
I then treat them in a grease-pot such as is usually employed in tinning iron or
steel plates. In this grease-pot, I place a box or receptacle of metal or other suitable
material which is filled with molten tin.
I suspend or support the articles to be treated in the said grease-pot upon racks,
hooks, pegs or the like in such a manner that their edges are in contact with, or are
partially immersed in the body of molten metal in the said box or receptacle. This
metal attracts the tin upon the plate or other article and draws off the same to a greater
or less extent according to the time during which the articles are left in contact with
the metal in the said box or receptacle.

page_text: In some instances I dispense with the said box or receptacle and place the body of
molten tin directly in the grease-pot, the edges of the articles being placed in contact
with the said metal.
By the process above described I can tin articles very effectively, using from twenty
to twenty-five per cent. less tin than has heretofore been necessary.
The articles tinned by my process are perfectly coated with tin and are as bright as
articles treated by the old processes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I wish it understood that
I claim :-
The improved method hereinbefore described of removing or stripping off a portion
of the tin from hollow-ware or other articles coated therewith, by suspending or
supporting the said articles in contact with molton tin, as, and for the purpose,
specified.
Dated the 26th January 1888.
THOS. ANDERSON.
Haseltine Lake & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.O.,
Agents for the Applicant.