Improvements in Machinery and Appliances for Coating Metal Sheets with Tin, Terne, and other Metals or Alloys.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Oct., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 24th July, 1893-Accepted, 16th Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery and Appliances for Coating Metal Sheets
with Tin, Terne, and other Metals or Alloys.
We, GEORGE LOCKWOOD MORRIS, Tin Plate Manufacturer, and JOHN
WILLIAMS, Engineer, both of Landore, in the County of Glamorgan, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the manner in which we construct and arrange machines
and appliances comprising pots, rollers, guides, gearing and mechanism for actuating
the same, whereby we are enabled to coat metal sheets with tin, terne and other
metals or alloys in an efficient and economical manner.
In carrying our invention into effect we construct our improved combination pot
out of any ordinary metals and materials; and we arrange our pot, by which term
hereinafter mentioned we include the whole combination, preferably in three parts.
One part or portion we cause to contain the palm oil and finishing rolls; another
portion we cause to contain the. fluxing material through which the plates to be
coated are to pass, while the third portion contains the tin terne or other coating
metal or alloy.
In the first portion of our pot we fix preferably three sets of rolls, these sets
being arranged vertically one above or below the other. Each of these three sets
of rolls we form preferably with four separate rolls; the two inner rolls receiving
the motion by friction from the outer ones which have suitable worm wheel or
other gearing arranged upon their spindles or axes. We give motion in one
convenient manner to the outer roll worm wheels, by means of vertically placed
spindles having worms fixed or arranged thereupon, these spindles being driven by
suitable worm bevel or other gearing transmitting motion from the driving shaft
which we mount above the pot in suitable bearings.
Instead of mounting three double sets of rolls in the same pot, we sometimes
arrange one single set or several sets in the same manner when desired for any
particular purpose.
We cause the plates to be coated by passing them alternately through openings
or grids arranged in the second and third portions of our pot, viz.-those containing
the fluxing material and the coating metal respectively. We arrange these
openings or grids with guides, so that the plates may be delivered up to meet the
set of rolls through which they are to be passed.
By this our improved system of arranging the rolls above and below each other
the plates are delivered out of the other set finished, the lower sets serving to
prepare them for the finishing rolls.
When arranging more than three sets of rolls one to deliver into the other we
employ the same essential features of driving them as hereinbefore described when
driving three sets, and when employing a number of sets in a line in the same large
pot we arrange guides and grid openings for directing the plates to meet each
particular set of rolls as hereinbefore described when employed for a double set
only.
We modify the shape and arrangement of the pot to suit any particular require-
ment or any special metal or alloy.
Deted this 1st 1
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery and Appliances for Coating Metal Sheets
with Tin, Terne, and other Metals or Alloys.
We, GEORGE LOCKWOOD MORRIS, Tin Plate Manufacturer, and JOHN
WILLIAMS, Engineer, both of Landore in the County of Glamorgan, 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 relates to the manner in which we construct and arrange machines
and appliances comprising pots, rollers, guides, gearing and mechanism for actuating
the same, whereby we are enabled to coat metal sheets with tin, terne, and other
metals or alloys in an efficient and economical manner.
In carrying our invention into effect as illustrated in the accompanying drawing,
we construct our improved combination pot out of any ordinary metals and
materials and we arrange our pot, by which term, hereinafter mentioned, we
include the whole combination, preferably in two parts A and B; the part A
containing the coating material and palm oil, the part B containing the flux,
through which the plates to be coated are to pass..
In the part A of our pot we fix preferably four sets of rolls A B C D these
sets being arranged vertically one above or below the other. Each of these four
sets of rolls we form preferably with four separate rolls E. F. G. H. driven by
cog wheels or other gearing arranged upon their spindles or axes, driven by suitable
worm, bevel or other gearing, transmitting motion from the driving shaft which we
-mount above the pot in suitable bearings. Instead of mounting four double sets of
rolls in the same pot, we sometimes arrange one single set or several sets in the
same manner when desired for any particular purpose. We cause the plates to be
ccated by passing them alternately through openings or between the guides II [2
secured to the guide frame plates K and arranged in the pot A and B each set of
guides being arranged so as to guide the plates between either of the two
bottom rolls E F and G H and carried upwards and delivered out between the top
rolls finished ready for the cleaning process which can be done either by hand or
machinery.
We are thus enabled to pass two or more layers of plates through the pot at one
and the same time.
We modify the shape and arrangement of the pot to suit any particular
requirement.
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
1. The construction and arrangement of machinery and appliances for coating
metal sheets with tin,. terne and other metals or alloys whereby two or more
plates may be passed through the rolls at the same time, substantially as and
for the purposes hereinbefore described, and as illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
2. In appliances for coating metal sheets with tin, terne or other metals or
alloys, the arrangement of a pot in which guides are placed to direct the sheets and
rolls, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and as illustrated
in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 22nd day of July 1893.
MARKS & CLERK,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants.