Im- PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED IN COATING METAL PLATES WITH TIN OR WIMD OTHER MEAT OR ATTOTO " PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Edward David Morris, of the Vernon
Iron and Tin Plate Works, Briton Ferry, in the County of
Glamorgan, Tin Plate Manufacturer, for the Invention of "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED IN COATING METAL PLATES WITH TIN OR
WIMD OTHER MEAT OR ATTOTO "
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Edward
David Morris at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with his Petition, on the 25th February 1874.
I, CHARLES EDWARD DAVID MORRIS, of the Vernon Iron and Tin
Plate Works, Briton Ferry, in the County of Glamorgan, Tin Plate
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED IN COATING METAL PLATES WITH TIN OR
WITH OTHER METALS OR ALLOYS," to be as follows:-
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My Invention relates to the "tin pot or vessel used to contain the
molten metal or metals with which iron plates or sheets are to be.
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page_text: In using "tin pots" of the ordinary construction workmen are apt to
insert therein a large number of plates, and to leave them in for too
long a time instead of inserting say half the number for half such time.
The result is that the said plates receive too thick a coating, and there is
consequently a waste of metal.
Now the object of my Invention is to prevent the workman from
inserting in the said pot or vessel more than a certain number of plates
at the same time, and thus to avoid the waste of metal herein-before
referred to. For this purpose I cast on or affix to the interior of the
said pot or vessel wings, ribs, or projections, or rails or bars, or per-
forated plates, so as to block up portion of the space which would
otherwise be available for the plates or sheets without materially
reducing the capacity or cubic contents of the said pot or vessel, it
being desirable to have a good body of molten metal therein. Where
ribs or wings are used they may be formed or arranged horizontally, or
they may extend either vertically or diagonally from the upper part to
the lower part of the pot, being by preference sloped off toward the
bottom so as to leave as much space as possible for the molten metal,
and they may be formed on or affixed to one side of the said pot, or
they may be formed on or affixed to both sides. In the former case they
should be of such width as to extend to about the middle of the pot,
and in the latter they should be of about half that width, so as to leave
the available space for the said plates or sheets at the middle of the said
trough. Where rails or railings, or bars or perforated plates are used
they may be fixed or placed in the pot either in a vertical, horizontal, or
diagonal position so as to rail off all portions except the space reserved
for the plates or sheets.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Edward David Morris in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 25th August 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
EDWARD DAVID MORRIS, of the Vernon Iron and Tin Plate Works,
Briton Ferry, in the County of Glamorgan, Tin Plate Manufacturer,
send greeting.
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page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of February, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Charles Edward David Morris, Her
special license that I, the said Charles Edward David Morris, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Charles Edward David Morris, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man,
an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED IN COATING METAL
PLATES WITH TIN OR WITH OTHER METALS OR ALLOYS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Charles Edward David Morris, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing, under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Edward David Morris,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:-
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My Invention relates to the "tin pot" or vessel used to contain the
molten metal or metals with which iron plates are to be coated.
In using tin pots of the ordinary construction workmen are apt to
insert therein a large number of plates, and to leave them in for too
long a time instead of inserting (say) half the number for half such
time. The result is that the said plates receive too thick a coating, and
there is consequently a waste of metal.
Now the object of my Invention is to prevent the workman from
inserting in the said pot or vessel more than a limited number of plates
at the same time, and thus to avoid the waste of metal herein-before
referred to. For this purpose I cast on or affix to the interior of the
said pot or vessel wings, ribs, or projections, or rails or bars, or per-

page_text: forated plates, so as to block up a portion of the space which would
otherwise be available for the plates or sheets without materially reducing
the capacity or cubic contents of the said pot or vessel, it being desirable
to have a good body of molten metal therein. Where ribs or wings are
used they may be formed or arranged horizontally, or they may extend
either vertically or diagonally from the upper part to the lower part of
the pot, being by preference sloped off toward the bottom so as to leave
as much space as possible for the molten metal, and they may be formed
on or affixed to one side of the said pot, or they may be formed on or
affixed to both sides. In the former case they should be of such width
as to extend to about the middle of the pot, and in the latter they should
be of about half that width, so as to leave the available space for the
plates or sheets at the middle of the said pot. Where rails or railings
or bars, or perforated plates are used they may be fixed or placed in the
pot either in a vertical, horizontal, or diagonal position, so as to rail off
all portions except the space reserved for the plates or sheets.
Having now described the nature of my Invention I will proceed to
describe with reference to the accompanying Drawings the manner in
which the same is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents a transverse section taken on the line 1, 2,
Figure 3; Figure 2 is a longitudinal section taken on the line 3, 4,
Figure 3; and Figure 3 is a plan of a pot constructed according to one
arrangement of my Invention. A is the pot, and B, B, are wings, ribs,
or projections formed on or affixed to the inner face of one side of the
said pot, the said wings, ribs, or projections being sloped off at 6 in.
order that the space for the molten metal may not be unnecessarily
reduced. Figure 4 is a section taken on the line 5, 6, Figure 6; Figure 5
is a section taken on the line 7, 8, Figure 6; and Figure 6 is a plan of
another arrangement of my Invention, in which arrangement the wings,
ribs, or projections are shown affixed to both sides of the pot... The parts
of these Figures are marked with similar letters of reference to those
used for corresponding parts in Figures 1, 2, and 3.
Instead of wings, ribs, or projections, rails, bars, or perforated plates
may be cast on or affixed to the inner side or sides of the pot so as to
block up a portion of the space without materially reducing the capacity
or cubic contents of the said pot or vessel.
The said wings, ribs, or projections, or rails or bars, or perforated
plates may be fixed or placed in the pot cither in a vertical, horizontal,

page_text: diagonal, or other position so as to rail off all parts except the space
necessary to accommodate the required number of plates or sheets.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that
I do not limit myself to the precise details herein-before described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawings, as the same may be varied
without departing from the nature of my Invention, but I claim as
my Invention of improvements in apparatus used in coating metal plates
with tin or with other metals or alloys, forming the pots for containing
the molten metal or blocking up the interior thereof, essentially as
herein-before described so as to limit the space available for the metal
sheets or plates to be coated without materially reducing the capacity or
cubic contents of the said pots.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Edward David Morris, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of August,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
Witness,
CHARLES EDWARD DAVID MORRIS. (L.8.)
EDWIN D. LEWIS,
Post Office,
Jersey.
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