Polishing method and device

Claim 2

A tumbling apparatus for use in the fluid grinding method of polishing articles, comprising in combination a disposable yieldable leakproof container containing a prepackaged quantity of grinding grit and for receiving the articles therein, a vertically-hanging closed belt loop for removably supporting the filled container, a rotatable shaft having a diameter smaller than the cross-sectional dimension of the filled container for supporting the closed belt loop, and a mean operably connected to the shaft for transmitting rotation thereto to revolve the closed belt loop for tumbling the container and contents thereof.

Claim 3

An improved process for grinding and polishing articles, comprising the steps of placing the articles to be polished and a fluid grinding mixture in a disposable leakproof container, sealing said filled container, tumbling said sealed container an contents a sufficient length of time to effect a desired degree of grinding and polishing, wherein the step of tumbling comprises subsequent steps of terminating the tumbling when an intermediate degree of polishing has been effected, removing the intermediately polished articles from the leakproof container, cleansing the articles of the grinding mix, disposing of the disposable container and its residual contents, placing the cleansed intermediately polished articles and a second grinding mixture in a second disposable leakproof container, sealing said filled second disposable leakproof container, tUmbling said second sealed disposable leakproof container and contents a sufficient length of time to effect a second desired degree of grinding and polishing, and repeating the process through a sufficient number of stages as necessary to achieve the ultimate desired degree of polishing.

Claim 4

An improved process for grinding and polishing articles, comprising the steps of placing the articles to be polished and a fluid grinding mixture in a disposable leakproof container, sealing said filled container, tumbling said sealed container an contents a sufficient length of time to effect a desired degree of grinding and polishing, wherein the step of tumbling comprises subsequent steps of terminating the tumbling when an intermediate degree of polishing has been effected, removing the intermediately polished articles from the leakproof container, cleansing the articles of the grinding mix, disposing of the disposable container and its residual contents, placing the cleansed intermediately polished articles and a second grinding mixture in a second disposable leakproof container, sealing said filled second disposable leakproof container, tUmbling said second sealed disposable leakproof container and contents a sufficient length of time to effect a second desired degree of grinding and polishing, and repeating the process through a sufficient number of stages as necessary to achieve the ultimate desired degree of polishing.

Claim 5

An improved process for grinding and polishing articles, comprising the steps of placing the articles to be polished and a fluid grinding mixture in a disposable leakproof container, sealing said filled container, tumbling said sealed container and contents a sufficient length of time to effect a desired degree of grinding and polishing, wherein the placing of the articles and the grinding mix in the disposable leakproof container includes the steps of prepackaging a premeasured amount of grinding grit in the disposable leakproof container, opening the said prepackaged disposable leakproof container, placing said articles in said prepackaged container, and adding liquid to the contents of the container prior to the sealing thereof.

Claim 6

An improved process for grinding and polishing articles, comprising the steps of placing the articles to be polished and a fluid grinding mixture in a disposable leakproof container, sealing said filled container, tumbling said sealed container and contents a sufficient length of time to effect a desired degree of grinding and polishing, wherein the placing of the articles and the grinding mix in the disposable leakproof container includes the steps of prepackaging a premeasured amount of grinding grit in the disposable leakproof container, opening the said prepackaged disposable leakproof container, placing said articles in said prepackaged container, and adding liquid to the contents of the container prior to the sealing thereof.

Claim 7

An improved process for grinding and polishing articles as described in claim 2, wherein the grinding mixture comprises a liquid and grinding grit combination.

Claim 8

An improved process for grinding and polishing articles as described in claim 4 wherein the grit used in the sequential grinding stages is of a successively finer size to provide increasingly finer polishing.

Claim 9

An improved process for grinding and polishing articles as described in claim 5 wherein the liquid is water.

Claim 10

An improved process for grinding and polishing articles as described in claim 5, wherein the liquid is essentially water based.

Claim 11

An improved process for grinding and polishing articles as set forth in claim 3 herein a predetermined quantity of liquid is added to the contents of the container to provide an optimum ratio between the liquid and the premeasured grit.

Claim 12

A tumbling apparatus for use in the grinding fluid method of polishing as described in claim 1, wherein the sides of the vertically hanging belt loop are distented by the weight and size of the filled, yieldable container supported therein, said distented sides providing an inward squeeze against the container to impress a centripetal pressure against the contents of the yieldable container.