US535396A - Machine for manufacturing tin-plate - Google Patents

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Patented Mar. 12, 1895.

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No 535,396. Patented Mar. 12, 1895.

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. EDWIN NORTON, OF MAYWOOD, AND HORATIO N. NORTON, OF OAK PARK,

ASSIGNORS TO THE NORTON BROTHERS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MACHINE FOR MANUFACTURING TIN-PLATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 535,396, dated March 12, 1895.

Application filed June 18,1894. Serial No. 514.916. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: kind or construction known to those skilled Be it known that we, EDWIN NORTON, of in the art.

Maywood, and HORATIO N. NORTON, of Oak The cleaner mechanism which we prefer to Park, in the county of Cook and State of Illiemploy isindicated in the drawings, and connois, citizens of the United States, have insists essentially of an endless flexible skele- 55 vented a new and useful Improvement in ton conveyerdfm-nished with a series of open Machines for Manufacturing Tin-Plate, of racks, pockets or fingers d for receiving and which the following is a specification. holding the tinned sheets in connection with Our invention relates to improvements in abin or receptacle (Z containing bran or other IO machines or apparatus for manufacturing tin cleaning material, through which cleaning 60 plate, and more particularly to a combined material the sheets are drawn or passed sucapparatus for automatically lifting and coolcessively and continuously by the conveyor d. ing thetinned sheets as they issue from the F is a chute or passage way along which tinning pot and cleaning the same. the tinned sheets pass automatically from the Our invention consists in the novel devices lifter into the conveyor of the cleaning mech- 65 and novel combinations of parts and devices anism; and G is a deflector device for pushherein shown and described and more paring or deflecting the lower edge of the sheets ticularly pointed out in the claims. over the mouth or upper edge of the chute F In the accompanying drawings which form as the sheets are released by the lifter, so that a part of this specification, and in which simithe sheets will pass into the connecting chute 7o lar letters of reference indicate like parts, F. This deflector device consists preferably Figure 1 is a side elevation of a device emof one or more revolving arms as indicated in bodying ourinvention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged the drawings. detail view of parts hereinafter described, The connecting chuteFisarranged preferand Fig. 3 is a plan View of the parts shown ably in substantially the same direction or 75 in Fig. 2. inclination as the receiving portion or loop of In the drawings A represents the frame of the endless flexible conveyor (1 of the cleanthe machine. ing mechanism, so that when the tinned sheets B is a tinning pot and b the finishing rolls pass down to the lower end of the chute F 0 therein between which thetinned sheetsissue they will be in the path of the open pockets 80 from the tinning pot. This tinning pot and or fingers d, and thus be received thereby. mechanism may be of any suitable kind or con- The chute F is provided with one or more, strnction known to those skilled in the art. preferably two, spring stopsfand f to cush- O represents thelifting mechanism by which ion the fall or motion of the sheet to prevent the tinned sheets are lifted and suspended or injury to the same. The upper onefof these 85 supported while being given an opportunity stops is mounted on a movable armf so that to cool. This lifter mechanism may be of any it may be moved out of the way at intervals suitable kind or construction known to those to permit the sheet to pass down against the skilled in the art. next stop f in position to be received by the The lifter mechanism which we prefer to carrier pocket (1. The arm f is operated at 0 employ is indicated in the drawings and consuitable intervals by a cam or projection 67/ sists essentially of an endless link chain caron the pulley d of the carrier (Z of the cleanrier c furnished with a series of pairs of opening mechanism. The movable stopf thusoping and closing fingers c c which grasp the erates as a feed, check or device to prevent sheet at or near its upper edge, these fingers more than one sheet being fed or passed at a 5 being automatically operated by stationary time down against the stop f in position to cams c on the frame A of the machine. be received by the carrier of the cleaning D is a cleaner device or mechanism for mechanism. The stop f is preferably itself cleaning the oilfrom the tinned sheets. This made in the form of a spring as indicated in cleaner mechanism may be of any suitable the drawings, and is also secured to a sliding 10o stemf which is surrounded and supported by a coil springft The construction of the cleaning mechanism which we have shown or indicated in the drawings is familiar to those skilled in the art, and as the particular form of this mechanism constitutes no part of our present improvement it is not necessary to enter into a detailed description of this old method.

As illustrated in the drawings the cam or projection 61 consists simply of a pin inserted in the side face of the pulley d in position to engage the lever or movable arm f The sliding stem f to which the spring stop f is attached is mounted in a suitable case or barrel f which supports the stop in position. This barrel or casef is attached to an open pocket or receptacle f f the bottom limlof of which forms a continuation of the chute F and the upper limb f of which is curved upward to tangentially meet the pulley d, as is clearly illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3. Two of the stops f are preferably employed, one at each side of the center of the sheet as clearly appears in Fig. 3. The slots or openings f are for the purpose of receiving and permitting the fingers or pockets d of the carrier 01 to pass. The stationary pockets f f and the barrel or case f are supported from the frame of the machine by a bracket or arm f WVe claim 1. The combination with an upright automaticliftingdevice ormechanism constructed and adapted to automatically receive, liftand convey in an upright position the separate tinned sheets as they issue one by one from the tinning pot so that they may cool while suspended in an upright position, of a mechanism for cleaning the sheets, and means for delivering the sheets automatically one by one from the lifter to the cleaner, substantially as specified.

2. The combination with a device for lifting the sheets as they issue from the tinning pot, of a cleaning mechanism, a connecting chute or passage way from the lifting mechanism to the cleaning mechanism, and a device for deflecting the sheets into said chute or passage Way after being released by the lifter, substantially as specified.

3. In a tin plate manufacturing apparatus, the combination with a lifter of acleaner, and a connecting chute furnished with one or more spring stops, substantially as specified.

4. The combination with a litter of a cleaner, a connecting chute and two spring stops in the chute, one of said spring stops being movable, and mechanism for intermittently moving said spring stop to permit the sheets to pass against the succeeding one, substantially as specified.

5. The combination with a lifter of a cleaning mechanism having a sheet conveyer furnished with open pockets or fingers to receive the sheets and a chute connecting the lifter with said cleaning mechanism to deliver the sheets into the pockets of the cleaner, substantially as specified.

6. The combination with a tinning pot of the lifting mechanism for lifting the sheets from the tinning pot and cooling the same, a cleaning mechanism furnished with a conveyer provided with open pockets or fingers to receive the sheets a connecting chute or passage way for the sheets and a deflector for pushing the lower edge of the sheets over the mouth or edge of said chute when released by the lifting mechanism, substantially as specified.

'7. The combination with a tinning pot of the lifting mechanism for lifting the sheets from the tinning pot and cooling the same, a cleaning mechanism furnished with a conveyer provided with open pockets or fingers to receive the sheets, a connecting chute or passage Way for the sheets, a deflector for pushing the lower edge of the sheets over the mouth or edge of said chute when released by the lifting mechanism and a spring stop in said chute to arrest the descent of the sheets, substantially as specified.

8. The combination with a tinning pot of the lifting mechanism for lifting the sheets from the tinning pot and cooling the same, a cleaning mechanism furnished with a conveyer provided with open pockets or fingers to receive the sheets, a connecting chute or passage way for the sheets, a deflector for pushing the lower edge of the sheets over the mouth or edge of said chute when released by the lifting mechanism, a movable spring stop mounted in said chute to arrest the descent of the sheets, and mechanism for automatically moving said spring stop at intervals, substantially as specified.

9. The combination with a tinning pot of the lifting mechanism for lifting the sheets from the tinning pot and cooling the same, a cleaning mechanism furnished with a conveyer provided with open pockets or fingers to receive the sheets a connecting chute or passage way for the sheets, a deflector for pushing the lower edge of the sheets over the mouth or edge of said chute when released by the lifting mechanism a movable spring stop mounted in said chute to arrest the descent of the sheets, mechanism for automatically moving said spring stop at intervals, and a second spring stop succeeding said first mentioned stop to support the sheet in position to be received by the open pockets or fingers in the conveyor of the cleaning mechanism, substantially as specified.

EDWIN NORTON. HORATIO N. NORTON. Witnesses:

II. M. MUNDAY, EMMA HACK.

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