Multiplex Tinplates, Terneplates, and other Coated Sheets.
Year: 1885

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Dec., 1885.
Complete Left, 18th Sept., 1886.
Complete Accepted, 28th Jan., 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Multiplex Tinplates, Terneplates, and other Coated Sheets.
JOSEPH RUSHTON TURNOCK Iron Steel and Tinplate Manufacturer Yspitty Works
Loughor R.S.O. South Wales do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
MULTIPLEX TINPLATES TERNEPLATES AND OTHER COATED SHEETS to be as
follows:-
"
In making these plates the sheets are manipulated singly in the ordinary way of
making coated plates until they have had their coating of metal in the usual way but
they are not to go through the "Branning" or cleaning process. For "duplex
plates two uncleaned tinplates are taken, laid evenly one on the other and passed
through the finishing rolls as one plate. For "Triplex" three similar sheets are
taken and so on for Quadruplex &c. &c. I may make them from plates which have
been cleaned if desirable. The object of this invention is to make a practically
indistructible plate a "Duplex" plate would enclose one layer of Tin between the Iron
or Steel Sheets. A Triplex plate would enclose two layers of Tin. A quadruplex plate,
three layers and so on to any thickness. Multiplex plates may also be made by placing
sheets one upon another in a bath with or without molten metal or oil or means of
applying power to consolidate them. Or arrangements may be made whereby they
are left with hollow spaces between them which can be filled with any desirable
material.
J. RUSHTON TURNOCK.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Multiplex Tinplates, Terneplates, and other Coated Sheets.
I JOSEPH RUSHTON TURNOOK Iron Steel and Tinplate Manufacturer Yspitty Works
Loughor R.S.O. South Wales do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
MULTIPLEX TINPLATES TERNEPLATES AND OTHER COATED SHEETS and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:
In making these plates the sheets are manipulated singly in the ordinary way of
making coated plates until they have had their coating in the usual way but they are
not to go through the "Branning" or cleaning process. For "duplex" plates two
uncleaned Tinplates are taken, laid evenly one on the other and passed through the
finishing rolls as one plate. For "Triplex" three similar sheets are taken and so on
for Quadruplex &c. &c. As the plates come up through the rollers they are taken
hold of by one or more pairs of tongs and carefully put by to set. I may make them
out of plates that have been cleaned if desirable. The object of the Invention is to
make a practically indestructible plate a "Duplex" plate would enclose one layer of
Tin between the iron or steel sheets. A "Triplex" plate would enclose two layers of
Tin. A "Quadruplex" three layers and so on to any thickness. Multiplex plates
may also be made by placing sheets one upon another in a bath with or without
molten metal or oil or means of applying power to consolidate them and made into
solid plates by the application of suitable heat to melt the coating metals; or arrange-
ments may be made whereby the plates are left with hollow spaces between them which
could be filled with any desirable material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed what I claim is
1st. The manufacture of Multiplex Tin or Terne plates as herein described by means
of the Tinning rollers.
2nd. The manufacture of Multiplex Tin or Terne plates as herein described by means
of packing them in a bath or mould with or without fluxing materials and by means of
heat and pressure if necessary consolidating them into one block.
3rd. So placing the sheets or plates that spaces are left between them which spaces
may be left hollow or filled with any desirable material and the block then consolidated
by means of heat and pressure if necessary.
J. KUSHTON TURNOCK.