Year: 1885

page_text: I JOHN LYSAGHT of St Vincent Road Works in the City and County of Bristol
and Gloucester and Wolverhampton in Staffordshire Engineer do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-.
This invention has for its object improvements in means or apparatus for
drying and brushing iron sheets.
The construction of the apparatus is such that the drying and brushing is
effected with a constant and regular movement by which the articles are more
equally and perfectly dried and brushed than when the operation is performed by
hand as heretofore.
The invention is specially applicable to the treatment of sheets after galvanizing
and the subsequent washing by which the flux is removed.
The machine is furnished with a pair of rolls with suitable bearings fitted to a
plate or frame of a convenient form. There is an oven attached, placed over a
fire or furnace of a convenient form to allow the articles to be dried clean without
any soot or deposit from the fire.
By means of other rolls the plates are carried through the drying oven and
finally passed on through a pair of revolving brushes fitted with suitable guides
and arrangements to allow for adjustment as may-be required.
The object of the said revolving brushes is to brush off or remove any dust or
deposit from the surfaces of the iron sheets or articles passed through the apparatus.
By means of pulleys, pinions, and belts all the parts have constant and regular
motion imparted to them.
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Drying and Brushing.
Iron Sheets.
I, JOHN LYSAGHT of St Vincent road Works in the City and County of Bristol
and Gloucester and Wolverhampton in Staffordshire, Engineer, 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 has for its object improvements in means or apparatus for
drying and brushing iron sheets.
The construction of the apparatus is such that the drying and brushing is
effected with a constant and regular movement by which the articles are more
equally and perfectly dried and brushed than when the operation is performed by
hand as heretofore.
The invention is specially applicable to the treatment of sheets after galvanising
and the subsequent washing by which the flux is removed.
The machine is furnished with a pair of rolls with suitable bearings fitted to a
plate or frame of a convenient form. There is an oven attached, placed over a fire
or furnace of a convenient form to allow the articles to be dried clean without any
soot or deposit from the fire.
By means of other rolls the plates are carried through the drying oven and
finally passed on through a pair of revolving brushes fitted with suitable guides
and arrangements to allow for adjustment as may be required.
The object of the said revolving brushes is to brush off or remove any dust or
deposit from the surfaces of the iron sheets or articles passed through the apparatus.
By means of pullies, pinions, and belts all the parts have constant and regular
motion imparted to them.
In order that my said invention may be most fully understood and readily
carried into effect I will proceed to describe the drawings hereunto annexed.
Figure 1 is an elevation of apparatus constructed in accordance with my
invention.
Figure 2 is a plan of the same, and
Figure 3 is a longitudinal section on the line 2, 2, in Figure 2.
A A is a furnace with fire bars at A¹ A¹ upon which a bright smokeless fire is
maintained. A' is a chamber or oven over the fire bars through which the sheets
to be dried are passed. A³ is a chimney for conveying away the products of
combustion. The fire passes around the chamber or oven and ascends on either
side to the chimney. On one side of this oven a pair of rollers B, B, is provided,
the rollers are carried in suitable bearings and are held in contact the one with the
other by springs. The rollers are geared together by pinions on their axes at one
end, and at the other extremity of the lower roller a belt pulley is provided, it
receives a driving belt by which the rollers B, B, are driven from a pair of
corresponding rollers CC. On the axis of the lower roller of this pair is a belt
pulley C which receives a driving belt from a pulley driven by any available
motor. D and E are a pair of rotary brushes, the brush E is driven by a belt

page_text: passing around a belt pulley upon its axis and also around a pulley C on the axis
of the lower roller C. The brush D is driven from the brush E by a belt passing
around the belt pulley D¹ and E¹.
The sheets to be dried and brushed are brought to the machine and placed upon
the table F; they are entered between the rollers B, B, which carry them forward
at a regular speed into the oven; the sheets in passing through the oven are
guided by guides A. The length of the sheets being greater than that of the oven
the sheets are taken hold of by the rollers C. C. before they are released by the
rollers B. B. The sheets are thus carried forward, and after leaving the rollers C, C,
they pass between the rotary brushes D and E. They are controlled in their
passage between the brushes by guides G, G, and finally the sheets which have
been thus dried and cleansed are delivered on to the table H from which they are
taken away by hand.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. Apparatus for drying and brushing iron sheets consisting of an oven with
receiving rollers B directing the plates through the said oven and delivering
rollers C carrying the plates forward and passing them between rotating brushes Ď
and E substantially as described.
2. The combination of the parts A, B, and C substantially as described.
3. Apparatus for drying and brushing iron plates substantially as illustrated
by the annexed drawings.