New or Improved Hack Cap for use in Brick-making and other like Manufactures.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Dec., 1999
Complete Specification Left, 18th Sept., 1900-Accepted, 20th Oct.,
1900
Date of Application
Complete Specification Left, 18th Sept., 1900-Accepted, 20th Oct., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Hack Cap for use in Brick-making and other
like Manufactures.
We, ALFRED HEDGES BEASLEY, ALFRED HEDGES BEASLEY, Junior, and VICTOR
WALTER BEASLEY, all of Rockingham Iron Works, Uxbridge, in the County
of Middlesex, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows: —
This invention relates to a new or improved hack cap, or portable protective
roof or cover intended to be placed over newly moulded bricks, tiles, and the
like while they are stacked in rows for drying in order to protect them from
bad weather.
According to this invention we make the hack cap of a sheet of iron or steel,
plain, or corrugated, and curved or bent into the desired shape.
At convenient distances apart and near the eaves or edges of the iron or steel
sheet we punch or partially cut out portions of the sheet of any convenient shape
and bend such portions inwards or outwards so as to form openings or hole:
through each pair of which we pass the opposite ends of a wooden tie-rod or
stretcher bar which may be secured to the partly cut out portion of the sheet
by screws, nails or other convenient means. Or we sometimes employ metal
tie-rods or stretcher bars which may be rivetted or otherwise attached to the
curved or bent sheet. These tie-rods or stretcher bars, whether of wood or
metal, also form bearers or supports which rest on the tops of the bricks or other
articles which are being dried. One or more suitable hand-holes may be pro-
vided in the curved or bent plate to enable the hack cap to be readily handled.
Dated this 18th day of December 1899.
A. H. BEASLEY.
A. H. BEASLEY, Junr.
V. W. BEASLEY,
Per W. H. Beck,
115, Cannon Street, London, E.C., Agent.
New or Improved Hack Cap for use in Brick-making and other
like Manufactures.
We, ALFRED HEDGES BEASLEY, ALFRED HEDGES BEASLEY, Junior, and VICTOR
WALTER BEASLEY, all of Rockingham Iron Works, Uxbridge, in the County
of Middlesex, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
[Price 8d1

page_text: what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement --
This invention relates to a new or improved hack-cap, or portable protective
roof or cover intended to be placed over newly moulded bricks, tiles, and the
like while they are stacked in rows for drying in order to protect them from
bad weather.
According to this invention we make the hack-cap of a sheet of iron or steel,
plain or corrugated, and curved or bent into the desired shape.
In the accompanying drawings Figures 1 and 3 are end views of hack-caps
constructed in accordance with this invention, and Figures 2 and 4 are longi-
tudinal sections taken on lines Y Y and Z Z of Figures and 3 respectively.
Similar letters relate to like parts in all the figures of the drawings.
a are corrugated sheets of iron or steel bent to a curve or other shape suitable
for forming a protecting shelter for the bricks or other articles over which the
hack-caps are intended to be used.
At convenient distances apart and near the eaves or edges of the iron or steel
sheet we punch or partially cut out portions of the sheet of any convenient
shape and bend such portions 6 inwards or outwards so as to form openings or
holes through each pair of which we pass the opposite ends of a wooden tie-rod
or stretcher-bar e which may be secured to the partly cut-out portion of the
sheet by screws, nails, or other convenient means as shewn at d for example
in Figures 1 and 2.
Or we sometimes employ metal tie-rods or stretcher-bars as shewn at * for
example in Figures 3 and 4. These metal tie-rods or stretcher-bars * may be
rivetted or otherwise attached to the curved or bent sheet a as shewn at * for
example in Figures 3 and 4. These tie-rods or stretcher-bars, whether of wood
or metal, also form bearers or supports which rest on the tops of the bricks or
other articles which are being dried. One or more suitable hand-holes may be
provided in the curved or bent plate to enable the hack-cap to be readily handled.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :--
First. A hack-cap consisting of a curved or bent sheet of plain or corrugated
iron or steel furnished with tie-rods or stretcher-bars which also serve as bearers
or supports substantially as described.
Second. A hack-cap consisting of a curved or bent sheet a of plain or corru-
gated iron or steel with punched up portions b forming holes through which are
passed suitably secured wooden tie-rods or stretcher-bars c substantially as
described with reference to Figures 1 and 2 of the drawings.
Third. A hack-cap consisting of a curved or bent sheet of plain or corru-
gated iron or steel with metal tie-rods or stretcher-bars c* of convenient section
and suitably secured to the said sheet a substantially as described with reference
to Figures 3 and 4 of the drawings.
Dated this 18th day of September 1900