An Apparatus for Applying Glazes or Enamels to Tiles or other like Goods.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 5th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 10th Nov., 1894
An Apparatus for Applying Glazes or Enamels to Tiles or other
like Goods.
We, ARTHUR MAW, GEORGE HORNBY Maw, and BENJAMIN SUART all of
Benthall Works, Jackfield in the County of Salop, Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention consists of an apparatus for applying glazes or enamels to tiles or
other like goods.
The apparatus comprises two main parts, viz. first a table or frame along which the
tiles or other goods are caused to travel upon an endless band, and secondly an
endless web of cloth or other material which continuously takes up liquid glaze
or enamel from a trough or reservoir and subsequently deposits it upon the tiles or
other goods as these travel along the table or frame.
In carrying out our invention we hinge at one end of a fixed table or frame one
end of an inner frame at the upper surface of which are a number of anti-friction
rollers. An endless travelling band passes at one end of its travel round a drum
on the fixed frame and at the other end round a drum on the inner hinged frame.
Between these drums the upper stretch of the endless band is supported by the
inner frame and rollers and it constitutes the carrier and support for the tiles or
other goods; these are supplied to the band at one end of its travel and delivered
at the other end. Above the endless band is an endless web which passes round
certain drums one of which is partly immersed in a reservoir containing the liquid
glaze or enamel and another of which brings it into contact with the tiles. The
reservoir is capable of being lowered by means of a rod and lever or otherwise so
as to move it clear of the web and drum.
The operation of the apparatus is as follows:-The endless web continuously
takes up the liquid glaze or enamel while passing round the drum in the reservoir and
this glaze or enamel becomes equalized during the passage of the web over a roller,
the web in passing round the next drum comes in contact with the face of the tiles
or other goods on the endless band, and as the tiles are absorbent the glaze becomes
transferred to them in the required quantity. This quantity will depend partly
upon the consistency of the glaze or enamel, partly upon the pressure employed
and partly upon the nature of the web. The pressure of the tiles against the web
can conveniently be regulated by attaching a rod to the inner hinged frame and
connecting this rod with a lever having an adjustable weight.
The apparatus can be worked by steam or other like power or by treadle and
crank or manually.
Dated this Oth dow of Donombor 1902

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Apparatus for Applying Glazes or Enamels to Tiles or other
like Goods.
We, ARTHUR MAW, GEORGE 'HORNBY MAW and BENJAMIN SUART all of
Benthall Works, Jackfield in the County of Salop, Manufacturers, 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 :-
1
Our invention consists of an apparatus for applying glazes or enamels to tiles or
other, like goods.
The apparatus comprises two main parts, viz.; first, a table or frame along which
the tiles or other goods are caused to travel upon an endless band, and secondly, an
endless web of india rubber faced with cloth or other material which continuously
takes up liquid glaze or enamel supplied from a trough or reservoir and subsequently
deposits it upon the tiles or other goods as these travel along the table or frame.
'In carrying out our invention we hinge at one end of a fixed table or frame one
end of an inner frame at the upper surface of which are a number of anti-friction
rollers. An endless travelling band passes at one end of its travel round a drum
on the fixed frame and at the other end round a drum on the inner hinged frame.
Between these, drums the upper stretch of the endless band is supported by the
rollers and inner frame and it constitutes the carrier and support for the tiles or
other goods; these are supplied to the band at one end of its travel and delivered
at the other end. Above the endless band is an endless web which passes round
certain drums or rollers and at one part of its travel is in contact with a drum
which is partly iminersed in a reservoir containing the liquid glaze or enamel.
This drum takes up the glaze or enamel and transfers it to the web which in its
turn whilst passing round one of its drums comes into contact with the tiles. The
reservoir is capable of being lowered by means of a rod and lever or otherwise so
'as, to move it clear of the web and drum.
The accompanying drawings represent a machine constructed in accordance with
our invention, Figure 1 being a side elevation Figure 2 an end elevation and
Figure 3 a plan.
:
X is a fixed table or frame and I an inuer frame hinged to the fixed frame at Y.
ZZ are a number of anti-friction rollers at the upper surface of the frame I.
G is an endless travelling band which passes at one end of its travel round a drum B
on the fixed frame X and at the other end round the drum A on the inner hinged
frame I. Between these drums the upper stretch of the band G is supported by
the rollers' Z and it constitutes the carrier and support for the tiles or other goods
to be glazed. F is an endless web or band preferably made of vulcanized india
rubber covered with woollen, linen, cotton or other suitable absorbent material.
This web passes round two rollers or drums D and E and in passing round the
latter (which is preferably made of or covered with india rubber) it comes in
contact with the tiles. C is a drum also covered with' a suitable absorbent material;
it revolves partly immersed in a reservoir J containing the liquid glaze or enamel
and presses against the web F. L L represent the tiles; they are placed face
upwards on boards M M which are carried by the endless band & in the direction
indicated.
The operation of the apparatus is as follows:-The endless web F continuously
takes up the liquid glaze or enamel while passing in contact with the drum C
which revolves in the reservoir J; the web in passing round the roller or drum E
comes in contact with the face of the tiles or other goods L L on the endless
band G; and as the tiles are absorbent the glaze becomes transferred to them in
the required quantity. This quantity will depend partly upon the consistency of

page_text: the glaze or enamel, partly upon the pressure employed and partly upon the nature
of the web. The pressure of the tiles against the web can conveniently be regulated
by attaching a rod N to the inner hinged frame I and connecting this rod with a
lever H having an adjustable weight. The roller D' serves not only to equalize
and regulate the amount of glaze carried forward by the web F but also to clear the
band from glaze when the machine ceases to work; at this time the reservoir J is
lowered by means of the treadle lever K so as to remove the glaze from contact
with the drum C.
The apparatus can be worked by steam or other like power or by treadle and
crank or manually. In the drawings it is shown as driven by a band P passing
over a pulley Q on the shaft of-the drum B. This shaft carries two other pulleys B₁
and B' from which cords R S. respectively drive pulleys E' C' on the shafts of the
roller E and drum C.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is
An apparatus constructed and working substantially as herein before described
for applying glazes or enamels to tiles or other like goods.
Dated this 5th day of October 1894.
J. C. MEWBURN & ELLIS,
55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London, Patent Agents.