A Tin Dusting
Year: 1894

page_text: SAMUEL FOSTER Bootmaker Redbrook Monmouth EDWIN BEARD Roll Turner
Redbrook Monmouth do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows
The machine will be known to the trade as a
complete.
cleaning & dusting machine
The tinplates are conveyed through the usual meal, sharps, and the like, which
is the dipping process; and then pass between brushes, or rubbers, worked by
eccentrics, one brush, or rubber, working on each side of the plate, thus giving a
backward and forward action after the manner of brushing, which removes the
meal, and the like, which is the dusting process.
The machine is a dipping, and dusting, machine, because both of these operations.
are performed in the one machine.
The essence of the invention is the action or movement, of brushes, or rubbers,
in the manner of brushing.
We also claim to use the brushes or rubbers in the first, or dipping process, for
the purpose of rubbing the meal and the like upon the surface of the plates, before
going on to the dusting process.
S. FOSTER.
E. BEARD.
A Tinplate Dusting
We SAMUEL FOSTER, Redbrook in the County of Gloucester Shoemaker and
EDWIN BEARD Redbrook in the County of Gloucester Roll Turner 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 consists in an arrangement of mechanism and apparatus consisting
of an improved machine for dusting tin and terne plates after they have been
passed by machinery or by hand through the usual meal bran sharps sawdust or
other substances such as are usually employed for the removal of the grease from
the surface of tin and terne plates.
According to this invention the plates are conveyed by rolls through guides which
pass the plates between a pair of brushes or rubbers which are moved by eccentrics
forwards and backwards horizontally after the manner of brushing or rubbing upon
both surfaces of the plate and thus removing the meal bran sharps sawdust etc.
In the accompanying drawings,-Figures 1 and 2 represent a plan and side view
of our machine or apparatus for dusting tin and terne plates.
We construct a suitable frame or stand A upon which the apparatus and
mechanism is fixed.

page_text: Two iron standards B form sides fitted with suitable bearings upon which rest
and revolve the rolls C.
Brushes or rubbers D are worked or moved forwards and backwards by the
eccentrics E so that the upper brushes D are moved or pushed in one direction at
the same time as the brushes or rubbers immediately below D' are moved or
pulled in an opposite direction thus dusting the two surfaces of the plate at the
same time as it is being passed between the said brushes or rubbers by the rolls C.
To enable the plate to enter between the upper D and lower D¹ brushes or
rubbers we fix guides F. By means of these guides F tin and terne plates of the
thinnest gauges manufactured can be dusted in our machine. Such thin gauges
are well understood in the trade and are usually described as "taggers."
The rolls C may be entirely or partly covered with india-rubber leather flannel
cloth or other suitable material. Above the rolls are placed adjusting screws G
Fig. 2.
The guides F are so arranged that they carry the plate right into and between
the brushes or rubbers.
The upper
brush or rubber D is attached to an iron slide D2 which passes at
each end through a socket H Fig. 2 which socket suspends the brush or rubber.
Working through this socket H is an adjustable screw 1 by which means the brush
or rubber is raised or lowered so that the necessary pressure of the brush or rubber
is brought to bear upon the upper surface of the plate. The lower brush or
rubber is also attached to an iron slide D³ Fig. 2 which rests upon a suitable
bearing and is raised as required so as to bear upon the lower surface of the plate
by an adjustable screw G₁ worked from below the standard B. Upon the driving
shaft J are fixed eccentrics E one attached by an iron rod K to the iron slide D³
the other attached by an iron rod K' to the iron slide D³ Fig. 2. Also upon the
driving shaft J are bevil cog wheels M which work upon and revolve bevil cog
wheels M¹ which latter M¹ are fixed upon a small shaft N resting upon bearings O.
This small shaft N is coupled to the spindle of the roll by a suitable coupling P.
We do not however wish to confine ourselves to using eccentrics to work the
brushes as other appliances can be used such as cranks or wabblers.
We do not also wish to confine ourselves to using any definite number of pairs of
brushes or rubbers. We find one pair capable of doing, the work but prefer two
as per our drawings.
We abandon the claim in the Provisional Application to the cleaning or dipping
process therein referred to.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
1. In an apparatus for dusting "tinplates" which is a well understood trade
term including terne plates and taggers-the use of brushes or rubbers D D¹
working horizontally after the manner of brushing or rubbing provided with the
guides substantially and for the purposes hereinbefore described and declared.
2. The apparatus for dusting "tinplates" substantially as herein before described
and shewn in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 9th day of October 1894.