Improvements in Machinery for Cleaning and Polishing Sheet-metal Boxes or Receptacles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 5th June, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 5th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 12th May, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Cleaning and Polishing Sheet-metal
Boxes or Receptacles.
We JOHN VICARS, THOMAS VICARS, and JOHN VICARS Junior, all of 56 Seel
Street Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Engineers, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object is to provide suitable machinery for cleaning and polishing biscuit
and other sheet metal boxes or receptacles mainly after they have been in use and
have been returned for refilling, and the invention is more especially applicable to
flat sided receptacles which are liable to be forced out of shape by the pressure of
the cleaning and polishing apparatus.
Our invention consists essentially in the combination of a block or shape for
filling the interior of and for carrying the box to be cleaned and polished, with a
carrying arm having rotary motion, and also motion in three dimensions, and with
a rotating, cleaning, or polishing disc or wheel. Two or more such parts may be
combined in one machine. Any suitable frame work and driving gear is used.
Dated this 2nd day of June 1893.
Per pro J. T. KING,
*J. Johnson,
Agent.
Improvements in Machinery for Cleaning and Polishing Sheet-metal
Boxes or Receptacles.
We JOHN VICARS, THOMAS VICARS, and JOHN VICARS Junior, all of 56 Seel
Street Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, Engineers, 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 :-
The object is to provide suitable machinery for cleaning and polishing biscuit
and other sheet metal boxes or receptacles mainly after they have been in use and
have been returned for refilling, and the invention is more especially applicable to
flat sided receptacles which are liable to be forced out of shape by the pressure of
the cleaning and polishing apparatus.
Our invention consists essentially in the combination of a block or shape for
filling the interior of, and for carrying the box to be cleaned and polished, with a
carrying arm having rotary motion and also motion in three dimensions, and with
a rotating cleaning or polishing disc or wheel. Two or more such parts may be
combined in one machine. Any suitable framework and driving gear is used.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figs. 1 and 2 are elevations at right angles to each other, and Fig. 3 is a plan
of half of a box-cleaning and polishing machine under our invention.
a is the frame, carrying a shaft 6 free to rotate in bearings c. d driving pulley.
e cleaning wheel. e' polishing wheel secured one at each end of the shaft b. The
said cleaning and polishing wheels are conveniently made of discs of felt securely
held in position by clamps f and coated with emery or other cleaning or polishing
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page_text: material. 9, gare the blocks or shapes which fit into and fill the boxes being
cleaned and polished. The said blocks or shapes g, g¹ of the required size are each
secured to a carrying plate h, h', on spindles i, . The spindles i, ¹ pass through
sleeves, and are free to be rotated or moved end wise. The sleeves j, j¹ form
part of arms k, k¹, which are secured to the upper ends of vertical spindles l.
m m² are nuts and washers secured to the ends of the spindles i, i¹. n n' are spiral
springs abutting against nuts and washers m m' and arms k, k¹, to keep the
spindles i, drawn back so that one of the flat sides of each of the plates h h¹
engages with one of the flat projecting surfaces o, o', of the arms k k¹.
In this way the box forms are securely held in position and may be readily
turned round by moving forward the spindles i, i¹. p, pl handles secured to the
arms k, by means of which the boxes are pressed against the cleaning and
polishing wheels. The vertical spindles 1, are free to rotate in bearings 9, pivotted
to arms r, which arms are jointed to vertical spindles ss. The free ends of the
arms carry balance weights. The vertical spindles s, s', are carried in
bearings t, t on frame u, u'. The said frames u u¹ are hinged to the frame a at v, v.
The above system of jointing or connecting to the frame the various parts which
carry the boxes, enables every part of the said boxes to be brought in contact with
the cleaning and polishing wheels by means of the handles p, p, as the said boxes
may be moved in three planes at right angles to each other, and be also caused to
When a box has been cleaned on the block g, it is removed to the block g¹
rotate.
and polished.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
First. In apparatus for cleaning and polishing metallic boxes, the combination
of a block or shape with a carrying arm having rotary motion and also motion in
three dimensions and also with a rotating cleaning or polishing disc or wheel.
Second. The block 9, carrying shaft i, arms k and r and frame u connected and
operated substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Third. Machinery for cleaning and polishing boxes substantially as set forth.
Dated the 3rd day of March 1894.
J. T. KING,
Agent.