Improvements in Apparatus for Forming Copper Ingots.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 30th July, 1889
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Complete Specification Left, 26th Apr., 1890-Accepted, 31st May, 1890
*PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Forming Copper Ingots.
I, CHARLES, LAMBERT BATH, of Port Tennant Copper Works, Swansea, in the
County of Glamorgan, Copper Smelter, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to apparatus for use in forming copper into ingots.
Heretofore the ingot-moulds have been arranged beside a "bosh" and the "lader"
who filled the same had to walk from the furnace to the bosh with each ladle full of
metal.
According to my invention I facilitate the "lading" of the ingots by placing the
ingot-moulds upon a travelling band or platform, one end of which is near the furnace
and the other over the pickling bosh, so that the moulds can be successively filled,
and then conveyed to the bosh into which the ingots, which are cooled during the
traverse of the band, are tipped.
A second travelling band, one end of which is located in the bosh while the other
end is in a store or other suitable position serves to receive the ingots as they drop
from the moulds and convey them to the desired point.
Dated the 30th day of July 1889.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Forming Copper Ingots.
I, CHARLES LAMBERT BATH, of Port Tennant Copper Works, Swansea, in the
County of Glamorgan, Copper Smelter, 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 :-
"
My invention relates to apparatus for use in forming copper into ingots.
Heretofore the ingot-moulds have been arranged beside a bosh," and the "lader"
who filled the same had to walk from the furnace to the bosh with each ladle full of
metal.
The chief object of my invention is to facilitate the "lading" of the ingots and to
this end it comprises the improvements hereinafter described, and illustrated in
sectional elevation in the accompanying drawing.
According to my invention the ingot-moulds a are placed upon a travelling
band or platform b carried upon bearing rollers c, c. One end of this travelling
platform is near the furnace, indicated at d, while the other is over the pickling
bosh e so that the moulds can be successively filled and then conveyed to the bosh
into which the ingots, which are cooled during the traverse of the band, are
tipped.
A second travelling band f, one end of which runs over a roller g in the bosh while
the other end extends to a store or other suitable position, serves to receive the
ingots as they drop from the moulds and convey then to the desired point.
Motion can be imparted to the bands by any desirable means.
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 :-
The improved annaratus for use in the manufacture of metal ingots comprisingơ two

page_text: endless travelling bands, one of which carries the ingot moulds, while the other serves
to receive the ingots as they drop into the "bosh" from the first band and to convey
them away, substantially as described.
Dated the 26th day of April 1890
:
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.