Improvements in Apparatus to be Used in the Manufacture of Bricks, Tiles, and Quarries.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Dec., 1887
Complete Left, 14th Feb., 1888
Complete Accepted, 29th Mar., 1888
PROVISIONAL DIECIFICATIVAT
Improvements in Apparatus to be Used in the Manufacture of Bricks,
Tiles, and Quarries.
I STEPHEN BOND of No. 189 St. Andrew's Road Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Brick Works Manager do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be
as follows:-
My invention consists of apparatus constructed and used substantially in the manner
herein after described for conveying the clay from the grinding or pugging mill to
the table on which the bricks tiles or quarries are made or moulded.
In the ordinary method of conveying the clay from the pug mill the clay is allowed
to fall onto the floor or ground from whence it is conveyed in wheelbarrows up an
inclined plank and tipped onto the table on which the bricks or other clay articles are
to be moulded.
The apparatus constituting my invention is constructed and used as follows:-
From the pug mill in which the clay is ground and prepared I construct a tramway
which passes along one side of a shed or making floor or between two sheds or making
floors. The tramway is situated on the same level as the said floor or floors. On the
said tramway a trolley or clay wagon works for conveying the clay from the pug mill
to the working table. The carriage of the trolley or clay wagon consists of a light
frame raised some distance above the four wheels on which it is supported and on the
top of the said frame the body of the wagon to contain the clay is connected and
supported by a horizontal axis parallel to the longer sides of the body and to the
tramway rails. By means of the said axis the body of the clay wagon is capable of
an oscillating motion for tipping it on either side. The body of the clay wagon is
open at its top and longer sides the said sides being temporarily closed by hinged doors
which open when the clay wagon is tipped and permit of the emptying of its contents.
The said doors are held in their closed positions by "turns or catches. The oscillating
body of the clay wagon is supported in a horizontal position while it is being filled
and travelling to the table by means of hinged side props or supports moving vertically
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page_text: that is capable of being turned down from under or raised under the bottom of
the body. When one or other of the props is turned down the clay wagon descends
or tips on that side which is unsupported and deposits the clay onto the working table
at that side of the tramway. The props are held in their vertical or propping positions
by means of catches or turns.
A levor is fitted to the door of the pug mill so that it can be opened and shut from
below.
In using the trolley or clay wagon it is wheeled on the tramway under the pug mill
and filled the clay falling directly into the body of the wagon. The trolley or wagon is
then moved on the tramway to the tables on which the bricks or clay articles are to be
moulded and one of the side doors of the body having been unfastened the prop at
the same side is also unfastened and turned down on its hinge. The body of the clay
wagon now tips or descends at the side at which the door is unfastened and the clay
pushing open the said door falls onto the working table.
By the use of my invention great economy both in time and labour is effected.
Dated this First day of December 1887.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus to be Used in the Manufacture of Bricks,
Tiles, and Quarries.
I STEPHEN BOND of No. 189 St. Andrews Road Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Brick Works Manager do hereby declare the nature of my Invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :
My invention consists of apparatus constructed and used substantially in the manner
hereinafter described for conveying the clay from the grinding or pugging mill to the
table on which the bricks, tiles or quarries are made or moulded.
In the ordinary method of conveying the clay from the pug mill the clay is allowed
to fall on to the floor or ground from whence it is conveyed in wheelbarrows up an
inclined plank and tipped onto the table on which the bricks or other clay articles aro
to be moulded.
The apparatus constituting my invention is constructed and used as follows:-
From the pug mill in which the clay is ground and prepared I construct a tramway
which passes along one side of a shed or making floor or between two sheds or making
floors. The tramway is situated on the same level as the said floor or floors. On the
said tramway a trolley or clay wagon works for conveying the clay from the pug mill
to the working table. The carriage of the trolley or clay wagon consists of a light
frame raised some distance above the four wheels on which it is supported and on the
top of the said frame the body of the wagon to contain the clay is connected and
supported by a horizontal axis parallel to the longer sides of the body and to the
tramway rails. By means of the said axis the body of the clay wagon is capable of
an oscillating motion for tipping it on either side. The body of the clay wagon is
open at its top and longer sides the said sides being temporarily closed by hinged doors
which open when the clay wagon is tipped and permit of the emptying of its
contents. The said doors are held in their closed positions by "turns or catches.
The oscillating body of the clay wagon is supported in a horizontal position while it
is being filled and travelling to the table by means of hinged side props or supports
moving vertically, that is, capable of being turned down from under or raised under the
bottom of the body. When one or other of the props is turned down the clay wagon
descends or tips on that side which is unsupported and deposits the clay onto the
working table at that side of the tramway. The props are held in their vertical or
propping positions by means of catches or turns.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawings the
manner in which my invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in side elevation and Figure 2 in end elevation the apparatus
trolley or clay waggon and tramway constructed according to my invention for conveying
the clay from the grinding or pugging mill to the table on which the bricks or clay
articles are to be made or moulded, the said trolley or clay wagon being represented in

page_text: the horizontal or propped position which it occupies during the filling of the same
and whilst it is travelling on the tramway to the table.
Figure 3 represents an end elevation of the said wagon (together with the working
table) in its tilted position for depositing the clay on the working table at one side of
the tramway, the dotted lines in the said Figure 3 indicating the position which the
tilted wagon takes for depositing the clay on the working table situated at the opposito
side of the tramway.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the
Drawings.
1.
a is the clay trolley or wagon supported on the light frame consisting of a series
of longitudinal and cross bars, preferably of wood, the said supporting frame being
fixed to the carriage c, the wheels d, d of which work on the tramway represented,
the said tramway passing from the pug mill to one side of the shed or making floor
or between two sheds or making floors. The clay wagon a is connected to the top of
the light frame b by means of the horizontal axis e fixed to the bottom of the wagon
and situated parallel to the longer sides of the wagon and the tramway rails. The
said horizontal axis e is supported upon and turns in the bearings, on the frame b,
the parts of the said axis e turning in the bearings ff being made cylindrical at ƒ ƒ².
By means of the axis e, f, the body of the clay wagon is capable of an oscillating
motion for tipping or inclining it on either side the tramway as illustrated in Figure 3.:
g, gare the hinged props or supports at one end of the wagon the said props or
supports being situated on opposite sides of the supporting axis e, f2. The said side
props g, g' are hinged at 2 to the top of the supporting frame b and are capable of
moving vertically on the said hinges so that they can be turned down from under or
raised under the bottom of the body of the clay wagon a. The props or supports g, g
are held in their vertical or propping positions by the catches or turns h, h. When
the prop is released and turned down as illustrated in Figure 3, the clay wagon a
being unsupported at that side turns on its axis ef2 and the said wagon descends or
tips on the right hand side of the tramway and deposits the clay on the working
table at that side of the tramway as illustrated in the said Figure 3. When the
other prop g is turned down in a similar way, the clay wagon descends or tips on the
left hand side of the tramway as indicated in dotted lines in Figure 3 and deposits the
clay on the working table at that side of the tramway: k, k, are the hinged side doors
by which the open sides of the clay wagon a are temporarily closed the said hinged
doors when released and the wagon is tipped, open and permit of the emptying of
the contents of the said wagon as illustrated in Figure 3. The said side doors h, k
are hinged at 2, to the tops of the metal strengthening bars on the fixed ends of
the wagon. The said hinged doors k, are held in their closed positions by turns or
catches, the said catches or turns being secured to the fixed V pieces m on the
sides of the wagon frame.
As the mouth of the pugmill is considerably above the level of the tramway to
permit of the wagon being brought under it, a lever is fitted to the door of the pug
mill so that it can be opened and closed from below.
A cheap and convenient tramway for the trolley or clay wagon to travel upon may
be made in the way represented in the Drawings but I do not limit myself to the use
of any particular kind of tramway.
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The tramway represented consists of the wooden longitudinal sleepers n, n supported
by side bricks to which sleepers the metal plates p, pare affixed against which the
flanges of the wheels d d of the carriage bear, the said flanges also working in
the sunken depressions q, q at the edges of the long bricks placed between
the sleepers n, n.
In using the trolley or clay wagon it is wheeled on the tramway under the pugmill
and filled, the clay falling directly into the body of the wagon. The trolley or wagon
is then moved on the tramway to the table or tables on which the bricks or clay
articles are to be moulded and one of the side doors of the body a having been
unfastened by turning its catch 7, the prop g or y' at the same side is also unfastened
by turning its catch and the said prop is turned down on its hinge g². The bodi̟¨ò¨

page_text: the clay wagon now tips or descends at the side at which the door is unfastened as
illustrated in Figure 3 and the clay pushing open the said door falls onto the working
table.
By the use of my invention great economy both in time and labour is effected.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention and the
manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my invention of
"Improvements in apparatus to be used in the manufacture of bricks tiles and
quarries."
Apparatus for conveying the clay from the grinding or pugging mill to the table
on which the bricks or clay articles are made or moulded consisting of a trolley or
clay wagon working on a tramway situated on the same level as and passing along
one side of the shed or making floor or between two sheds or making floors, the body
of the said trolley or clay wagon being supported on a light frame and carriage and
capable of an oscillating motion on a horizontal axis supported by the said frame for
tipping it on either side the tramway and emptying the said wagon of its contents,
the said wagon being furnished with hinged side props or supports for supporting it
in its horizontal or working position and with hinged side doors which when
unfastened open as the clay wagon is tipped substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Dotad this Thirteenth love of Wuhmuar 1988