US1071036A - Method of process of producing hollow tapes, ribbons, or bands of metal. - Google Patents

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• • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
  • C25—ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES; APPARATUS THEREFOR
  • C25D—PROCESSES FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PRODUCTION OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; APPARATUS THEREFOR
  • C25D1/00—Electroforming
  • C25D1/02—Tubes; Rings; Hollow bodies

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• the present invention has reference to a novel method or process of producing hollow tape, ribbon or bands by depositing by electrodeposition upon a readily fusible band or tape of lead, or other easily fusible metal, a shell or skin of electrolytically deposited metal, such as copper or the like; and, this invention relates, more particularly, to a novel method or process for making hollow tapes, ribbons, or bands of metal, and of the character set forth in another application for Letters-Patent filed by myself on the third day of April, 1912, Serial Number 688,338.
• the invention therefore, has for its principal object to provide a novel method or process for the purposes hereinabove stated, whereby such hollow tapes, ribbons, or 35 bands of metal may be produced electrolytically in a simple and perfect manner and at a comparatively low cost.
• the said invention consists in the novel process or methodof electricall producing hollow tapes, ribbons, or ban s of metal,
• Figure 1 is a diagrammatic representation, partly in vertical section and partly in elevation, of an apparatus and instrumentalities employed in producing hollow metal tape, ribbon, or bands of metal
• Fig. 2 is a detail plan view, on an enlarged scale, of the right-hand end of the apparatus and mechanism represented in said Fig. 1.
• Fig.3 is a detail transverse sectional representation of the electro-plating tank employed; and
• Fig. 4 is a detail plan view of the said plating tank.
• Fig. 5 is a longitudinal vertical section of a portionof the electrolated lead or readily fusible metal band a ter having passed through the electrolyte contained in the plating tank; and
• Fig. 6 is a similar section of the finished hollow metal tape, ribbon or band, after the lead or other readily fusible metal core or matrix has been fused or melted out of said plated shell or skin.
• the reference-character 1 indicates a suitably constructed electro-plating tank, which may be of any suitable width and length,and of any suitable construction, the tank here shown comprising v longitudinally extending sides 2,. the ends 3, and a base 4, the tank being preferably divided into two plating compartments by a longitudinally extending partition 5. Extending latera ly across the said compartments, at suitable intervals, are suitably constructed guiding and supporting rolls, as 6, the said compartmentsbeing also provided at suitable intervals in planes above and below the laneof said rollers 6, with laterally extending guide-bars 7 and 8, said bars 7 being formed with holes or perfo-- rations 9, and the said bars 8 being likewise provided with holes or perforations 10.
• any number of such plating tanks 1 may be placed in tiers vertically one above the other, being suitably secured to the vertical supporting posts 11 of a building. It will be understood, however, that these tanks may be differently arranged and otherwise supported, if desired.
• a series of suitable rods or splndles as 12, 13, 14 and 15, the rods or spindles 15 being provided with an arrangement of upper and lower rotary brushes 16, the purposes of which will be presently more fully specified.
• Rotatably mounted u on the said rods or spindles 12 are suita le reels, as 17, upon which are rolled suitnected a pipe 29 which leads into the tank 30 able strips or bands 18 of lead, or other easily fusible metal, said strips or bands extending in forward directions, between other reels 19 and 20, mounted-respectively upon the previously mentioned rods or spindles 13 and 14, the reeled off portions of the strips or hands 18, passing beneath a roller 21, at the end of the lating tank 1, into and extending longitu inally of the tank through the compartments the: Jr, and the reeled off portions of said strips or hands 18 being arranged upon and passing over the supporting rollers 6 within the plating tank.
• the said strips or hands 18, which in the meantime have received by electro-,
• a cutting off evice as 31, for cutting the said plated strip or' band into suitable lengths.
• This cutting off device may be adjustably arranged, so that short or long pieces .may be cut from the plated strip or band 18, as will be clearly evident, the said cutting ofi' device being of any suitable construction,
• the pum 25 herein-above mentioned may be operate by means of an suitable mech-- anism, that herein shown eing a belt 32 passing over a pulley-wheel 33 mounted upon a power-driven shaft 34.
• a pulley-wheel 35 over" which passes a belt 36 for driving a pulle wheel 37 which operates a worm 38.
• Mes ing with said worm 38 is a worm-wheel 39 for suitably revolving the previously-mentioned feed-rollers22' and 23.
• any other suitable arran ement of mechanism may be .em-
• the partition 5 is left at its ends with t e open parts 40 and 41, so as to establish communication at the end of the tank 1 between the two,co'mpartments thereof, a suitably constructed agitator,-'as 42,
• Rotatably arranged upon the previously mentioned reels 19 mounted upon the rods or spindles 13 are coils 43 of wire of any suitable gage, said wire being usually of copper.
• the wire is reeled off said reels 19, and the wire-strands 44 of said coils extend forwardly into and throu h the plating tank, the respective strands eing arranged and movably disposed upon opposite sides of the reeled-off portions of the flat strips or bands 18, said wire strands passing through the holes or perforations 9 and 10 of the respective guide-bars 7 and 8, within said tank 1.
• the said wire-strands 44 of the respective coils of wire 43 pass over and around an upper and lower arrangement of return-pulleys or wheels 45 and 46, returning respectively above and below the said flat strips or bands 18, in the form of wire-strands 48 which also pass through some of the holes or perforations 9 and 10 in the respective guide-bars 7 and 8, passing finally from the other end of the tank 1, and being rewound upon the reels which are mounted upon the respective rods or spindles 14.
• any suitable power-driven mechanism may I be employed for producing the winding-up operation of the reels 20, as will be evi ent.
• the electrolytic solution having been placed in the tank 1, the machinery is set in motion, the fiat band 18 of easily fusible metal bein drawn through the tank, entering at t e one end thereof, the band .18 being the cathode.
• the wire-strnds,hereinabove mentioned, are distributed in the said tank, in substantiall the ,manner shown,
• a complete electric circuit is established through the apparatus by means of the main circuit-wires 50 and 51, and the branch-circuit wires 52, 53, 55, 56, 57 and 58.
• the circuit-wire 52 is connected at one end of the electro-plating tank 1, by means of the circuit-wires 55 and 56 with the entering cathode-wires coming from the reels 19, be
• circuit-wire 52 is connected by means of the circuit-wires 57 and 58 in electrical contact with the previously-mentioned return-pulleys or wheels over which the said anodewires pass.
• circuit-wire 53 is electrically connected at its respective endportions in sliding electric contact with the lead band 18 at the one end, and with the copper-plated band at the other end of the plating tank 1.
• the .end of the said copper-plated band is brought into contact with a circuit-wire 60 which connects the electrically operating cutting apparatus, by means of a circuit-wire 59 with the circuit-wire 52, thus placing the cutting apparatus in circuit with the band 18.
• the band 18 may be provided with suitably disposed holes or perforations, as 62, so that the severed pieces of electroplated band, immediately after they have left the tank 1, in section, will have the appearance represented in Fig. 5 of the drawings.
• the fusible lead or other metal core within each section is thereupon removed from the copper shell or skin by the application of heat, the said metal core being of such readily fusible metal so as to easily clear itself from the electrodeposited copper shell, and the readily fusible metal flowing from the said copper shell or skin electrolytically deposited upon the said metal band 18 during its passage through the electroplating tank 1.
• in-going wires of larger or smaller gage may be used, the outgoing wires during the process of plating being reduced accordingly, and the time of movment of the wires through the electrolyte also being varied as occasion demands.
• a method or process of producing hollow tape, ribbon or bands of metal which consists in passing a band of readily fusible metal into a tank and'through the electrolyte therein, passing 'wire as an anode into and through the electrolyte upon the opposite sides of the said band and in reverse directions through the electroplating tank, forming electrolytically a shell of metal upon said readily fusible metal from the said wires during their passage through said plating tank, and passing the electroplated band of readily fusible metal from the other end of the plating tank.
• a method or process of producing hollow tape, ribbon or bands of metal which consists in passing a band of readily fusible metal into a tank and through the electrolyte therein, passing wire as an anode into and through the electrolyte upon the opposite sides of the said band and in reverse directions through the electroplating tank, forming electrolytically a shell of metal upon said readily fusible metal from the said wires during their passage through said plating tank, passing the electroplated band of readily fusible metal from the other end of the lating tank, severing the said electroplated band into sections, and then removing the readily fusible metal from within the said plated shell by fusion.
• a method or process of producing hol low tape, ribbon or bands provided with tubular staying studs which consists in passing a band of readily fusible metal provided with amultiplicity of holes or perforations into a tank and through the electrolyte therein, passing wire as anodes into and through the electrolyte upon the opposite sides of the said band and in reverse directions through the electroplating tank, forming electrolytically a shell of metal upon all of the exposed surface-portions of said perforated band from the said wires during their passage through said plating tank, and passing the electroplated band of readily fusible metal from the other end of the plating tank.
• a method or process of producing hollow tape, ribbon or bands provided with tubular staying studs which consists in passing a band of readily fusible metal provided with a multiplicity of holes or perforations into a tank and through the electrolyte therein, passing wire as anodes into and through the electrolyte upon the opposite sides of the said band and in reverse directions through the electroplating tank, forming electrolytically a shell of metal upon all of the exposed surface-portions of said perforated band from the said wires during their passage throu h said plating tank, passing the electrop ated band of readily fusible metal from the other end of the plating tank, severing the said electroplated band into sect-ions and then removing the readily fusible metal from within the said plated shell by fusion.
• a method or process of electroplating which consists in continuously moving a cathode into and out of an electroplating tank and through the electrolyte contained therein, continuously moving an anode into and out of the electroplating tank and through the electrolyte contained therein,
• a method or process of electroplating which consists in continuously moving .a cathode into and out of an electroplating tank and through the electrolyte contained therein, continuously moving an anode into and out of the electroplating tank and through the electrolyte contained therein in the direction with and also the reverse of the direction of the movement of the oathode, and continuously depositing from said from said moving anode upon said moving cathode.
• a method or process of electroplating which consists in passing a band of one kind of metal into and out of an electroplating tank and through the electrolyte therein, moving wire of another metalas an anode into and out of the tank and through the electrolyte, and forming an electro-deposition of metal upon said moving band from said moving wire.
• a method or process of electroplating which consists in continuously passing a band of one kindof metal into and out of an electroplating tank and through the electrolyte therein, moving wires of different cross areas as anodes into and out of the tank and through the electrolyte, and forming an electro-deposition of metal upon said moving band from said moving wires.
• a method or process of electroplating which consists in continuously passing a band of one kind of metal into and out of an electroplating tank and through the electrolyte therein, continuously moving a series of wires as anodes into and out of the tank and through the electrolyte therein and in opposite directions of the tank, and forming an electro-deposition of metal upon said moving band from said moving wires, the in-going wires being of larger cross-area than the outgoing wires, but the sum of the total cross-sectional areas of all wires at the different points across the electroplating tank being the same or approximately the same.
• a method or process of electro-plating which consists in continuously moving an anode in the direction of its longitudinal axis into an electroplating tank, through the electrolyte contained in said tank, and out of said tank parallel to the longitudinal axis of a cathode within the electrolyte, and depositing from said axially moving anode upon said cathode within the electrolyte.
• a method or process of electro-plating which consists in continuously moving an anode in'the direction of its longitudinal axis into an electroplating tank, through the electrolyte contained in said tank, and'out oi said tank parallel to the longitudinal axis of a cathode within the electrolyte, continuously moving said cathode in the direction of its longitudinal axis into the electroplating tank, through the electrolyte contained in said tank, and out of said tank, and depositing from said axially moving anode upon said axially moving cathode within the, electrolyte.
• a method or process of electro-plating which consists in'continuously moving an anode in the direction of its longitudinal axis into an electroplating tank, through the electrolyte contained in said tank, and out of said tank parallel to the longitudinal axis of a cathode within the electrolyte, and continuously depositing from said axiallymoving iLIlOdB upon said cathode within the electrote.
• a method or process of electro-plating which consists in continuously moving an anode in the direction of its longitudinal axis into an electroplating tank, through the electrolyte contained in said tank, and out of said tank, parallel to the longitudinal axis of a cathode within the electrolyte, continuously moving said cathode in the direction of its longitudinal axis into the electroplating tank, through the electrolyte contained in said tank, and out of said tank,.and continuously depositing from said axially moving anode upon said continuously and axially moving cathode within the electrolyte.
• a method or process of electroplating which consists in passing a metal body of one kind of metal into and out of an electroplating tank and through the electrolyte therein in the. direction of its longitudinal axis, moving wire of another metal in the direction of its longitudinal axis as an anode into and out of the tank and through the electrolyte; and forming an electrodeposition of metal from said wire upon said firstmentioned metal body.
• FREDERICK A FREDERICK A. FELDKAMP.

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