The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-08

aQOpbeu SO ENORMOUSLY lgHOTeu pOlI-l
teal issues that even Judge Moore
Endorsed and voted for them. We.
hope he is not going to kick out of the
traces and turn another somersault.
BRICK BY STBAM. Yesterday we
had the pleasure, in company with Mr..
s. L. Gilbert, of visiting the steam
brick making machine, located on
Franklin Street, at the point at which
it crosses Pigeon Creek. The machine
is owned by Gilbert, Refs &, Co., and
is now Unsuccessful operation 1t is
really astonishing how fast the brick
are moulded there. In one hour yes
terday 5, 720 perfect brick were turned
out, and up to- 81 o'clock, p. NJ the
time we left the yard, no less than
24,3OO brick had been made that day.
The owners Of this maehine have la
bored under great many disadyan-
tages, just as all have to who engage
in new enterprise, but the greatest
trouble has now been overcome. In
the first place, the engine employed
was not sufficiently powerful, and an
other one had to be substituted. By
this change some eighteen days of ex-
cellent weather were lost In the sec
ond place, some of the machinery did
not work perfectly, and required ex-
perimenting; but all the trouble is
now successfully overcome. At pres
ent it requires quite a force to keep it
in motion, but so soon as all are
thoroughly acquainted. with it the
force may be greatly reduced. Four
men are required to wheel the brick
from the machine and deposit them
on the yard One man is kept con-
| stantly, busy lifting the brick from the
/ machine and placing them bona wheel
barrow for removal. 1t requires all
the time of another man to wash the
tmoulds, land one to sand them. while
a. third is all the while busy in placing
the moulds under the machine to re-
| ceive the mud. Another man is re-
quired to feed the machine with clay
and three are kept constantly busy in
digging and filing the cart with earth
and conveying it to the machine
It is estimated that so soon as all
p
the arrangements are perfected, that
| eight men can perform all the labor
required in attendance on the. ma
chine, to mould 10000 perfect brick
| in one day. The mud is pressed into
! the moulds by an estimated pressure
of one ton on each mould of six brick
9. The clay is prepared similarly to thu
!. ordinary process of grinding for sucl
: purposes, and is pressed down to tht
, bottom by wings, or teeth, issuing
from main shaft or upright in thu
centre of the mud box. The wings, o.
teeth, are SO constructed that the,
prepare the mortar, and at the same
time press it into the nloulds.
, The brick we saw were really wei
|, made as far as we could Judge, bein,
! smoothe and perfect. In mouldin
6 three or four thousand there woul,
I not be more than one or two imper
feet ones. 1t is the intention to ru
1 the machine so that it win mould 30,
!, 900 per day, which eaneasily be done
e as we have before stated-24, 900 hayin
: been moulded up to 81 o'clock yester
:, day evening. This is likely to prov
n a great benefit to urcitizens who con
r template building this season, as n
c doubt the price of brick will be mate
!, rally reduced thereby. s., b. Gilbe1
= & Co, design useing q large amour
e of these brick in the construction Z
y their three store rooms ON First Stree
J between Sycamore and Vine.