A NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINE TO PRESS OR MOULD BRICKS
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Auguste Jullienne and Jacques Ernest Delacombe, of
No. 39, Faubourg St. Martin, in the City of Paris, in the Empire of
France, Engineers, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINE
TO PRESS OR MOULD BRICKS."
Sealed the 12th July 1864, and dated the 25th February 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Auguste Jullienne and
Jacques Ernest Delacombe at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 25th February 1864.
We, AUGUSTE JULLIENNE and JACQUES ERNEST DELACOMBE, of No. 39, Fau-
bourg St. Martin, in the City of Paris, in the Empire of France, Engineers,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED
MACHINE TO PRESS OR MOULD BRICKS," to be as follows :-
Our machine, which is intended to mould bricks dry, is composed essentially
of a main framing with wooden feet or supports of moulds in which the clay is
placed, a wooden lever, a piston or rammer, a cap which is brought on the
clay, two iron forked pieces carried on an axle, and by means of which the
piston is raised, connecting rods, also mounted on an axle, and which bring
down the cap, a small iron lever, by the movement of which the moulded
brick is removed, and a pulley, chain, and weight for re-lifting the wooden
lever.
The action is as follows:-The clay being placed in the moulds, the cap is
brought above them, the operator presses on the large wooden lever, which

page_text: turning on its axle raises the axle of the forked pieces, which in their turu
lift the piston or rammer, at the same time the axle of the connecting rods
brings down the cap until the three axles are perpendicularly placed, and the
clay caught between two compressing surfaces assumes the shape of a brick.
This pressure exercised, the operator releases the wooden lever which is raised
by the weight and pulley, the cap being then freed from the moulds the
operator pushes it before him, and pressing on the small iron lever causes the
bricks to leave the moulds and places them wherever he pleases.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Auguste Jullienne and Jacques Ernest Delacombe in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th August 1864.
**TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, AUGUSTE
JULLIENNE and JACQUES ERNEST DELACOMBE, of 39, Faubourg St. Martin, in
the City of Paris, in the Empire of France, Engineers, send greeting:
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent; bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of February, in the year of our, Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Auguste Jullienne and Jacques Ernest Delacombe, Her special licence that
we, the said Auguste Jullienne and Jacques Ernest Delacombe, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Auguste Jullienne
and Jacques Ernest Delacombe, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
should,at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, 'should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW
OR IMPROVED MACHINE TO PRESS OR MOULD BRICKS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Auguste Jullienne and Jacques Ernest Delacombe,
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or one
of our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said 'Auguste Jullienne and Jacques Ernest
Delacombe, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement, reference being had to the Sheet of
Drawing hereunto annexed, and forming part of this our Specification, and to
the figures and letters of reference placed thereon: Figure 1 representing a
side view of our machine intended to press or mould bricks dry; Figure 2 a
plan view, and Figure 3 a cross section. A, indicating the main framing; B, a
lever worked by the moulder; C, wooden feet or sole pieces; D, moulds in
which the clay is placed; E, piston or rammer; F, cap pressing on the clay;
G, axle of the large wooden lever'; H, iron forks; I, iron connecting rods;
J, small iron lever serving to remove the moulded brick; K, pulley; L,
weight, suspended to a chain, serving to relift the large lever; M, chain;
N, axle of the iron forks; O, cast-iron piece; P, axle of the connecting
rods.
The action of the machine is as follows:-The labourer, who places the clay
in the moulds, brings the cap F over them, the moulder then presses on the
lever B, which, turning on its axle G, lifts the axle N and forks H, which in
their turn lift the piston or rammer E, at the same time the axle P being
lowered causes the cap F to descend until the three axles N, G, P, are per-
pendicularly placed. It will be understood that the clay thus taken between
two surfaces which compress it assumes the shape of a brick. The pressure
once exercised, the moulder abandons the lever B, which is re-lifted by means
of the weight L; the cap F being then disengaged from the moulds the
labourer pushes it before him, and pressing on the lever J causes the bricks
to leave the moulds, when he places them wherever required.
In witness whereof, we, the said Auguste Jullienne and Jacques Ernest
Delacombe, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Ninth day of
July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
four.
ATE. JULLIENNE. (L.B.) J. E. DELACOMBE. (L.S.)