Improved Means for Cleaning or Polishing Tin and Terne Plates, and for similar purposes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Nov., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 26th Aug., 1892-Accepted, 1st Oct., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Cleaning or Polishing Tin and Terne Plates, and
for similar purposes.
I, EDWARD ASKEW BATII of Southview, Sketty, near Swansea, in the County
of Glamorgan, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
In removing grease from tin and terne plates after their being taken from the
tin pot it is usual to rub them with dry bran and the object of my present
invention is to provide a cheap and effective substitute for bran or a mixture that
shall be as effective and for this purpose I take the refuse from cocoa nut fibre and
thoroughly dry it and if necessary pass it through a screen, the material is then fed
into a disintegrator or mill and ground or pulverized to the requisite fineness when
the material is ready for use. Or I may employ peat moss instead of cocoa nut
fibre or the two substances in combination the peat moss having been suitably
prepared and ground to the requisite fineness.
In some cases I may mix one or other or both of the before mentioned with bran
or its equivalent and in every case care must be exercised in order to keep the
material or mixture thoroughly dry.
Dated this 20th day of November 1891.
POPPLEWELL & Co.,
17 & 18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C..
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Cleaning or Polishing Tin and Terne Plates and
for similar purposes.
I EDWARD ASKEW BATH of Southview Sketty near Swansea in the County of
Glamorgan Merchant 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 :-
1
In removing grease from tin and terne plates after their being taken from the tin
pot it is usual to rub them with dry bran and the object of my present invention is
to provide a cheap and effective substitute for bran or a mixture that shall be as
effective and for this purpose I take the refuse from cocoa nut fibre and thoroughly
dry it and if necessary pass it through a screen, the material is then fed into a
disintegrator or mill and ground or pulverized to the requisite fineness when the
material is ready for use. Or I may employ peat moss instead of cocoa nut fibre
or the two substances in combination the peat moss having been suitably prepared
and ground to the requisite fineness.
In some cases I may mix one or other or both of the before mentioned with bran
or its equivalent and in every case care must be exercised in order to keep the
material or mixture thoroughly dry.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner it is to be performed I declare that what I claim is,
1. The improved means for cleaning or polishing tin and terne plates and the
like substantially as hereinbefore described."
2. For cleaning or polishing tin and terne plates the use of cocoa nut fibre refuse
prepared substantially as herein before described.

page_text: 3. For cleaning or polishing tin and terne plates the use of cocoa nut fibre refuse
or peat moss or a mixture of these substances prepared substantially as hereinbefore
described.
Dated this 26th day of August 1809
POPPLEWELL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.