Coating Iron and Steel with Brass and other Metallic Alloys.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 18th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 27th Jan., 1884
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Coating Iron and Steel with Brass and other Metallic Alloys.
We, ALARIO VINCENT COLPOYS FENBY, of Sutton Coldfield, in the County
of Warwick, B.So. London, JOSEPH BEVERLEY FENBY, of Sutton Coldfield,
Civil Engineer, and GEORGE MOORE the Younger, of Erdington, in the County
of Warwick, Brassfounder, do horeby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to cover iron and steal articles with a firm
adherent coating of brass or other metallic alloy by dipping the said iron or steel
articles into a molten bath of the brass or other metallic alloy, with which they
are to bo conted.
We carry out our invention as follows:-The iron or steel articles to be coated
with brass or other metallic alloy are first thinly coated with copper, zinc or other
auitable metal preparatory to being dipped into the bath of molten brass or
other alloy. The article to be coated is then dipped into a bath of brass or other
metallic alloy, which is maintained at a suitable temperature. The surface of the
bath of molten alloy is protected by a layer of flux such as borax, through which
the prepared articles enter the bath.
Dated this 27th day of January 1893.
A. V. C. FENBY, B.Sc.,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Coating Iron and Steel with Brass and other Metallic Alloys.
We ALARIO VINCENT COLPOYS FENBY, of Sutton Coldfield, in the County
of Warwick, B.Sc. London, JOSEPH BEVERLEY FENBY, of Sutton Coldfield,
Civil Engineer, and GEORGE MOORE the Younger, of Erdington in the County of
Warwick, Brassfounder, 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 relates to the coating of iron and steel with brass and other
metallic alloys, and its object is to cover iron and steel articles with a firm
adherent coating of brass or other metallic alloy by dipping the said iron or steel
articles into a molton bath of the brass or other metallic alloy, with which they
are to be coated. We carry out our inventio as follows:-The iron or steel
artioles to be coated with brass or other metallic alloy are first thinly conted with
copper zinc or other suitable metal, by any of the present ordinary methods,
preparatory to being dipped into the bath of molten brass or other alloy. The
article to be coated is then dipped into a bath of molten brass or other metallio
alloy which is maintained at a suitable temperature. The surface of this bath of
molten alloy is protected by a layer of flux such as borax through which the
prepared articles enter the bath. The purpose of this layer of flux,-in addition
to its use as a flux,-being to prevent contact of air with the molten alloy and
the surface of the article while being dipped.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to bo performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. In coating iron and steel goods with brass and other metallic alloys the
combination or process of a covering or layer of flux upon the molten alloy in the
bath through which the articles to be dipped are passed as and for the purposes
specified.
2. The process by which steel and iron goods are coated with brass and other
metallic alloys as herein described and set forth.
Dated this 17th day of October 1898.
AHARAN