US1129241A

US1129241A - Electroplating apparatus.

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Publication number: US1129241A
Application number: US85200514A
Authority: US
Inventors: Chris N Smith
Original assignee: DAVID C COOK PUBLISHING Co
Current assignee: DAVID C COOK PUBLISHING Co
Priority date: 1914-07-20
Filing date: 1914-07-20
Publication date: 1915-02-23
Anticipated expiration: 1932-02-23

Description

x C. N. SMITH. BLEGTROYLATING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 20, 1914.

Patented Feb. 23, 1915.

" VIEII STATES Ilitllllhl-IlIfIE.

CHRIS N, SMITH, OF ELGIN, ILLINOIS', ASSIGNOB OF ONE-'HALF T0 DAVID C. COOK PUBLISHING COMPANY, 0F ELGIN, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

ELECTROPLA'HNG APPARATUS.

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Speciiication of Letters Patent. I Patented Feb.. 23, Igll.,

Application mea July 2o, 1914. serial No. l852,005.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHRIS N.' SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Elgin, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Electroplating Apparatus, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings. f

This invention relates to certain improvements in electro-plating apparatus, and the object of the invention is to provide a` device of this general character 'wherein the anodes and cathodes may be applied Within or removed from the vat with .convenience and facility and wherebythe same may be manipulated in a manner to reduce to a minimum' the possibility of foreign substances being collected within the vat whereby such vat is maintained clean.

The invention consists in the details of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts of my improved electro-plating apparatus, whereby certain important advantages are attained and the device is rendered simpler, less expensive and otherwise more convenient and advantageousfor use, all as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

The novel features of the invention will be carefully defined in the appended claim.

In order that my invention may be the better understood, I will now proceed `to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein is illus-l trated a fragmentary view in perspective of a plating apparatus constructed in accordance with an embodiment of my invention.

As disclosed in the accompanying drawings, V denotes a vat of predetermined configuration and dimensions adapted to contain the plating solution S, and the interior .walls of the vat V are provided with the blocks B serving tov maintain the

anodes A bars

4 and 5 adapted to be disposed above the vat V. The bars 1 and 2 are adapted to be suitably connected with a proper source of electrical energy, the bar 1 constituting the negative pole, while the bar 2 constitutes the positive pole.

Adjustably connected with. the supplemental bar 5 are the sleeves 6- in electrical contact with such bar 5, and each of such sleeves 6 is provided with a tubular leXtension 7 through which is disposed the vertically larranged metallic rod 8 maintained in operative position through the medium of the clamping screw 9, and adjustably engaged, as indicated at 10, with the lower extremity of such rod 8 is the clam) 11 adapted to be engaged With an anode The supplemental bar 4; has adjustably mounted thereon and in electrical contact therewith, the sleeves 12 maintained intheir requisite adjusted position through the medium of the clamping screw 14, and each of such sleeves is provided with the tubular extension 15 through which is adjustably directed a vertical metallic rod 16 provided at -its lower extremity with the spring clamping jaws 17 adapted to engage a cathode C. i

In vie'W of the foregoing arrangement of the rods 8 and 16, it will be observed that the anodes and cathodes can be positioned with facility and convenienceat any predetermined point within the vat V and that the same, especially the cathodes, can be raised and lowered with the best advantage. It is also to be observed that by this arrangement, the vat V is substantially desti- `tute of accessories or adjuncts whereby un hampered flow of current through S is afforded.l It will also be observed that with the foregoing arrangement, the anodes and cathodes can be manipulated with greater convenience and facility, as there is but one point of contact with each of the same to consider.

From the foregoing description, it is thought to be obvious that an electroplating apparatus constructed in accordance with my invention is of an extremely simple and comparatively inexpensive nature and is particularly well adapted for use by reasonV of the convenience and facilit with which it may be assembled, and it will also be obvious that my invention is susceptible of some change and modification without material departure lfrom the-princiiles and spirit lthereof and for this reason do not wish to be understood as'limiting myself to4 each ofthe bars,l rods operatively engaged bus bars posi- Liemeer by the sleeves and capableiof vertical adjustment relative thereto, and a clamping member carried by the lower extremity of 15 each of the bars,

the'clamping members carried by certain of the rods being capable of independent adjustment relative thereto.

In testimony whereof I hereunto ailix my signature in the presence of two witnesses. 26

CHRIS N. SMITH. Witnesses:

Emo J HILL,

E. STEWART.