Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 10th Mar., 1894

page_text: driving wheel which actuates the guide rolls in the tin pot by means of the toothed
wheels e, e', and the intermediate toothed wheels e, e.
The intermediates e², e², e³, are supported by the bars f, f, f, which are bolted
on the flange of the pot A, as shown in Figure 2.
9, 9, 9, are studs fixed to
the bars fff, having cast iron bushes h, h, h, to carry the intermediates e, e, e..
The rolls a, a, a', are fixed in a frame I.
The metal in the metal pot is heated by means of a furnace L, and a furnace M
is provided for the grease pot to keep the metal therein as near the melting point
as possible, but below the temperature of the metal in the metal pot, the same
being gradually cooled towards the grease pot by means of the intermediate flues 13¹,
before mentioned.
By providing the metal pot with the transverse grooves C', in which the
lower feed rolls rotate, thus are formed the upwardly projecting intermediate
portions H, whereby a great saving in the quantity of coating material within the
pot is effected over that necessary in the usual curved bottom not provided with
recesses.
A further advantage of this construction is that we are enabled to place inter-
mediate these recesses cooling flues for gradually cooling the metal as it passes over
the projecting portions H to the grease pot.
Attention is also called to our particular construction, which is the casting of the
walls and bottom of grease and metal pot integral, that is of a single casting, and
then forming the grease pot by placing therein a transverse vertical partition
separated at its lower end from the bottom of said casting sufficiently to allow the
passage of the plates from the metal pot into the grease pot, as clearly shown in
Figure 1.
It will be noticed that the left hand end wall of the pot extends above the
opposite end thereof, and that the outer or adjacent side wall of the pan. like
partition extends a corresponding distance above the opposite wall thereof, which
forms a grease pot above the plane of the metal pot to afford a receptacle for the
grease above the metal line of the metal pot.
As will also be seen, we provide the metal pot with feeding rolls for catching
and carrying them forward through the metal to the grease pot, in contradistinction
to the usual method of pushing them through by means of tongs, thus only
requiring the placing of plates by the operator in the flux box. In this manner
one person can feed a double machine thus increasing the output and doing
away with the expense of one man as two would be necessary if the feed rolls
were not provided.
We also make the feed rolls removable, as before described, the particular
object of which is to permit any one or more of the operating parts to be
removed from the pot without interfering with any of the other parts and
without removing the metal for that purpose. We are thus allowed ready and
convenient access to all the parts for the purpose of inspection or repair, as will
be readily understood.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. A combined metal and grease spot having the walls and bottom thereof cast
integral and the side walls unbroken, a detachable pan-like vertical transverse
partition placed wholly within the side walls of the pot and extending to near the
bottom thereof to make two distinct receptacles, and heating means for maintaining
the metals in the two receptacles at different temperatures.
2. A combined metal and grease pot having the walls and bottom thereof
cast integral, one end of the pot extended above the other, and a vertical
transverse partition composed of side and end walls, the outer side wall being
extended to correspond with the extended end of the pot to form a grease pot
above the metal pot.

page_text: 3. A metal pot for the purpose described, having transverse recesses forming
projecting portions between them, and cooling flues beneath the said projecting
portions, substantially as described.
4. The combination with a métal pot having transverse recesses in its bottom, of
a series of rolls, and separate and removable boxes for said rolls placed in said
recesses.
5. The combination with a metal pot having transverse recesses in its bottom,
of a series of rolls, a series of separate boxes for said rolls seated in the
recesses, and separate removable holding means for each box extending above the
metal line.
6. The combination with a metal pot, of a series of pairs of rolls, upper and
lower boxes for the rolls of each pair, parallel vertical rods for holding the
lower box of each pair, and a central rod for holding the upper box of each
pair of rolls.
7. The combination with a metal pot, of a series of pairs of rolls, separate
upper and lower boxes for the rolls of each pair, and separate removable holding
means for the upper and lower boxes which means extend above the metal line.
8. The combination with a metal pot having transverse recesses in its bottom,
of a series of pairs of rolls, lower boxes for the lower rolls seated in said recesses,
separate upper boxes seated on the lower boxes, and a removable holding means
for said boxes.
9. The combination with a metal pot, of a series of pairs of rolls, lower boxes
for the lower rolls of each pair, parallel vertical rods engaging and holding the
lower boxes, and separate upper boxes for the upper rolls supported between the
sait parallel rodas.
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1 parallel rods.
Dated this zoth day of November 1893.
For the Applicants,
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.