IMPROVEMENTS MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF BRICKS, PAVING BLOCKS, TILES, AND QUARRIES
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Hamblet, of West Bromwich, in the County of
IN
Stafford, Brick Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF BRICKS, PAVING BLOCKS, TILES, AND
QUARRIES."
Sealed the 19th July 1878, and dated the 8th February 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Hamblet at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th February 1878.
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JOSEPH HAMBLET, of West Bromwich, in the County of Stafford, Brick Manufac-
turer. IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF BRICKS,
PAVING BLOCKS, TILES, AND QUARRIES."
My Invention consists of the construction and arrangements or combinations of
parts herein-after described of machinery for the manufacture of bricks, paving
blocks, tiles, and quarries.
My said Invention consists essentially of arrangements or combinations of parts
for giving to the stream or sheet of clay, from which the bricks, blocks, tiles, or
quarries are to be made, a smoother surface, and making it more dense or solid
than by the ordinary arrangement, for adjusting the thickness of the stream or
sheet, for carrying forward, trimming, and dividing the stream of clay; and,
finally, cutting up the stream or sheet into bricks, blocks, tiles, or quarries.
The prepared clay is placed in a receiver in which a pair of horizontal rolls
works, the said clay being fed to the said rolls by screws in the said clay receiver.
By the action of the said rolls the clay forced between them by the feeding screws
is consolidated and formed into a flat stream or sheet of clay which is delivered by
the rolls to and forced through a die in front of the rolls. By means of the said
die the stream of clay is reduced in breadth, and further consolidated. The top
and bottom of the chamber between the rolls and the die are formed of two plates,
the inner edges of which bear against the cylindrical surfaces of the rolls, and act
as scrapers for removing the adhering clay from the rolls.

page_text: Instead of making the pressing or scraping edges of the said plates or scrapers
plain as usual, I make the said edges toothed, serrated, or notched, so that the air
in the chamber pressed out of the clay may freely escape therefrom through the
toothed, serrated, or notched edges of the scrapers.
The stream of clay issuing from the die is received on a series of carrying rollers
of the ordinary kind. A sufficient length of the clay is cut off, and pushed forward
by hand to a second or finishing pair of rolls, by the action of which rolls the
stream or length of clay is drawn through them, its density increased, and also
reduced in thickness and increased in breadth.
Around each of the rolls of the second or finishing pair an endless belt of mole-
skin or other like flexible material works and travels, the clay coming in contact
only with the said belts.. By means of these endless belts the action of the rolls
upon the clay is made more certain, and the delivery of the clay made more regular
than if the rolls acted directly upon the clay, and a smoother surface is given to
the clay.
The said endless belts, besides passing nearly round the rolls, also pass over small
guide rollers capable of adjustment, by which guide rollers the required tension
may be put on the belts. One of the adjustable guide rollers of the belt of the
lower finishing roll is situated nearly on a level with the meeting edges of the
finishing rolls, so that that part of the endless belt between the highest part of the
periphery of the lower roll and the adjustable top guide roller is horizontal, and forms
a travelling platform on which the stream of clay as it issues from between the pair
of finishing rolls is received, and by which it is conveyed to a delivery band situated
between the finishing rolls and the cutting-up table.
The bearing of the upper roll of the finishing rolls are made adjustable, so that
the said rolls may be adjusted at the proper distance from the lower roll, according
to the thickness of the stream of clay required.
To accommodate the driving gear wheel, by which motion from the driving shaft
is transmitted to the upper roll to the change of position of the said upper roll, the
bearing of the said driving gear wheel is made capable of adjustment in a curved
slot in the standard of the rolls, the said curved slot being concentric with the axis
of the gear wheel which drives the lower roll.
By this arrangement the driving gear wheel of the upper roll can be made to
follow the gear wheel on the said upper roll without being ungeared from the gear
wheel which drives the lower roll.
In front of the standard or housing in which the finishing rolls work is a series
of three (or more) vertical wires capable of adjustment. As the clay is carried
forward by the travelling platform in front of the finishing rolls against these wires
the outside wires trim and cut off the surplus clay from the edges of the stream of
clay; and, when desired, the middle wire may be used, so as to divide the stream
of clay into two longitudinal streams. As the trimmed or trimmed and divided
stream of clay passes from the cutting wires described it is received on the upper
layer of a delivering endless belt, -the said belt being situated around a series of
parallel rollers. One of the end rollers is driven by driving pulleys and toothed
gearing from the lower roll of the pair of finishing rolls. The stream of clay is
delivered by the endless belt last described on to a compound or double-acting
cutting-up table, by which the said stream is divided into bricks, blocks, tiles, or
quarries. The bed of this cutting-up table consists of a series of parallel rollers of
small diameter arranged close together.
Fixed to each of the two uprights between which the ends of these rollers turn a
series of vertical adjustable wires is secured. There is thus arranged at each of the
longitudinal edges of the cutting-up table a series of cutting wires. The table is
prolonged on each side the middle or roller part, the said prolonged side parts con-
stituting receiving platform on which the cut bricks, blocks, tiles, or quarries are
received.
Working on the rollers of the middle part of the table is a longitudinal pressing
bar by which the stream of clay situated on the table is forced against the cutting

page_text: wires, and the cut or divided articles transferred from the middle of the table to
one of the side platforms of the table. The said pressing bar, which is capable of
motion towards either of the receiving platforms, is connected to a reciprocating
slide working under the table, the said slide being supported upon rocking arms or
levers centred to the middle of the bed plate of the table.
When the stream of clay has been received on the middle part of the cutting-up
table the pressing bar, which is situated at one of the edges of the stream of clay,
is moved towards the receiving platform on the opposite side of the table. By the
motion of the said bar the stream of clay is forced against the cutting wires by
which the said stream is divided into bricks, blocks, tiles, or quarries, and the
divided articles deposited on the receiving platform, from which they are removed
by hand.
Another portion or length of the stream of clay having been received on
the cutting-up table, a backward motion is given to the pressing bar, and the stream
of clay is driven by the bar against the wires on the opposite side of the table, and
the divided bricks or articles deposited on the opposite receiving platform. Thus,
at each backward or forward stroke of the pressing bar, the stream of clay is forced
against one or other of the series of cutting wires, and the divided bricks or articles
deposited on one or other of the receiving platforms.
:
Although I prefer to use in combination the several arrangements described by
forming, trimming, dividing, and carrying forward the stream of clay, and for
cutting it up into bricks, blocks, tiles, or quarries, yet the said arrangements may
be used separately in combination with the ordinary or other brick, block, tile, or
quarry-making machine.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Joseph Hamblet in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 3rd August
1878.
JOSEPH HAMBLET, of West Bromwich, in the County of Stafford, Brick Manufac-
turer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF BRICKS,
PAVING BLOCKS, TILES, AND QUARRIES."
My Invention consists of the construction and arrangements or combinations of
parts herein-after described of machinery for the manufacture of bricks, paving
blocks, tiles, and quarries.
My said Invention consists essentially of arrangements or combinations of parts
for giving to the stream or sheet of clay, from which the bricks, blocks, tiles, or
quarries are to be made a smoother surface, and making it more dense or solid than
by the ordinary arrangement for adjusting the thickness of the stream or sheet, for
carrying forward trimming, and dividing the stream of clay; and, finally, cutting
up the stream or sheet into bricks, blocks, tiles, or quarries.
The prepared clay is placed in a receiver in which a pair of horizontal rolls
works, the said clay being fed to the said rolls by screws in the said clay receiver.
By the action of the said rolls the clay forced between them by the feeding screws
is consolidated and formed into a flat stream or sheet of clay, which is delivered
by the rolls to and forced through a die in front of the rolls.. By means of the said
die the stream of clay is reduced in breadth, and further consolidated. The top
and bottom of the chamber between the rolls and the die are formed of two plates,
the inner edges of which bear against the cylindrical surfaces of the rolls, and act
as scrapers for removing the adhering clay from the rolls..
Instead of making the pressing or scraping edges of the said plates or scrapers
plain as usual I make the said edges toothed, serrated, or notched, so that the air
in the chamber pressed out of the clay may freely escape therefrom through the
toothed, serrated, or notched edges of the scrapers.
The stream of clay issuing from the die is received on a series of carrying rollers
of the ordinary kind. A sufficient length of clay is cut off, and pushed forward by
hand to a second or finishing pair of rolls, by the action of which rolls the stream
or length of clay is drawn through them, its density increased, and also reduced in
thickness and increased in breadth.
Around each of the rolls of the second or finishing pair an endless belt of mole-
skin or other flexible material works and travels, the clay coming in contact only
with the said belts. By means of these endless belts the action of the rolls upon
the clay is made more certain, and the delivery of the clay made more regular than
if the rolls acted directly upon the clay, and a smoother surface is given to the
clay.
The said endless belts, besides passing nearly round the rolls, also pass over small
guide rollers capable of adjustment, by which guide rollers the required tension
may be put on the belts. One of the adjustable guide rollers of the belt of the lower
finishing roll is situated nearly on a level with the meeting edges of the finishing
rolls, so that that part of the endless belt between the highest part of the periphery
of the lower roll and the adjustable top guide roller is horizontal, and forms a
travelling platform on to which the stream of clay as it issues from between the pair
of finishing rolls is passed, and by which it is conveyed to a delivering band situated
between the finishing rolls and the cutting-up table.
The bearings of the upper roll of the finishing rolls are made adjustable, so that
the said roll may be adjusted at the proper distance from the lower roll, according
to the thickness of the stream of clay required.
To accommodate the driving gear wheel, by which motion from the driving shaft
is transmitted to the upper roll to the change of position of the said upper roll, the
bearing of the said driving gear wheel is made capable of adjustment in a curved

page_text: slot in the standard of the rolls, the said curved slot being concentric with the axis
of the gear wheel which drives the lower roll.
By this arrangement the driving gear wheel of the upper roll can be made to
follow the gear wheel on the said upper roll without being ungeared from the gear
wheel which drives the lower roll.
In front of the standard or housing in which the finishing rolls work is a series
of three (or more) vertical wires capable of adjustment. As the clay is carried
forward by the travelling platform in front of the finishing rolls against these wires
the outside wires trim and cut off the surplus clay from the edges of the stream of
clay; and, when desired, the middle wire may be used for dividing the stream
of clay into two longitudinal streams. As the trimmed or trimmed and divided
stream of clay passes from the cutting wires described it is received on the upper
layer of a delivering endless belt, the said belt being situated around a series of
parallel rollers. One of the end rollers is driven by driving pulleys and toothed
gearing from the lower roll of the pair of finishing rolls. The stream of clay is
delivered by the endless belt. last described on to a compound or double-acting
cutting-up table by which the said stream of clay is divided into bricks, blocks,
tiles, or quarries. The bed of this cutting-up table consists of a series of parallel
rollers of small diameter arranged nearly close together.
Fixed to each of the two uprights between which the ends of these rollers turn a
series of vertical adjustable wires is secured. There is thus arranged at each of the
longitudinal edges of the cutting-up table a series of cutting wires. The table
is prolonged ou each side of the middle or roller part, the said prolonged side
parts constituting receiving platforms on which the bricks, blocks, tiles, or quarries
are received.
Working on the rollers of the middle part of the table is a longitudinal pressing
bar by which the stream of clay situated on the table is forced against the cutting
wires, and the bricks or other articles transferred from the middle of the table to
one of the side platforms of the table. The said pressing bar, which is capable of.
motion towards either of the receiving platforms, is connected to a reciprocating
slide working under the table, the said slide being supported upon rocking arms or
levers centred to the middle of the bed plate of the table.
When the stream of clay has been received on the middle part of the cutting-up
table the pressing bar, which is situated at one of the edges of the stream of clay,
is moved towards the receiving platform on the opposite side of the table. By the
motion of the said bar the stream of clay is forced against the cutting wires by
which the said stream is divided into bricks, blocks, tiles, or quarries, and the
bricks or other articles deposited on the receiving platform from which they are
removed by hand.
Another portion or length of the stream of clay having been received on the
cutting-up table, a backward motion is given to the pressing bar, and the stream of
clay is driven by the bar against the wires on the opposite side of the table, and
the bricks or articles are deposited on the opposite receiving platform. Thus, at
each backward or forward stroke of the pressing bar the stream of clay is forced
against one or other of the series of cutting wires, and the bricks or articles deposited
on one or other of the receiving platforms.
I will now proceed to describe, with reference to the accompanying Drawings,
the manner in which my Invention may be performed.
Figure 1 represents in side elevation and Figure 2 in plan a machine for the
manufacture of bricks and other like articles, the parts of the said machine being
constructed and arranged according to my Invention; Figures 24 and 2³ represent
part of the same."
Figure 3 represents in longitudinal section partly in elevation; Figure 4 in plan,
and Figure 5 in transverse section the pair of finishing rolls, delivery band, and
parts near to them drawn to a larger scale; Figure 6 represents in transverse
section, and Figure 7 in end elevation the pair of finishing rolls drawn to the same
scale as Figures 3, 4, and 5, the said Figures 6 and 7 exhibiting the details for

page_text: rolls.
Figure 8 represents in longitudinal section, Figure 9 in plan, and Figure 10 in
transverse section the compound cutting-up table of the machine drawn to a larger
scale.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the
Drawings.
a is the receiver in which the prepared clay is placed, in which the preparatory
pair of horizontal rolls b, b, works. The clay in the receiver a is fed to the said
rolls b, b, by the screws c, c, driven in the manner represented. At the end of the
receiver a,
aud in front of the rolls b, b, is a die d. The rolls b, b, are driven by
the gearing represented. By the action of the pair of rolls b, b, the clay forced
between them by the feeding screws c, c, is consolidated, and formed into a flat
stream or sheet of clay, which is delivered by the said rolls to and forced through
the die d in front of the said rolls. By means of the die d the stream of clay is
reduced in width, and further consolidated.
The pressing or scraping edges of the plates e, e, forming the top and bottom of
the chamber between the delivering side of the rolls b, b, and the die d are serrated
or notched. One of these serrated or notched plates is represented drawn to a
larger scale in Figures 2 and 2ª..
By means of the serrated or notched edges of the plates or scrapers e, e, the air
in the chamber which is pressed out of the clay escapes freely from the said chamber
through the notched or serrated edges of the said plates or scrapers.
The stream of clay marked f issuing from the die d is received on the series' of
carrying rollers g, g, of the ordinary kind. After a length of clay sufficient, say, to
make ten or twelve bricks or other articles has been received on the carrying rollers
g it is cut off, and pushed forward by hand to the second or finishing pair of
rolls marked h, i, by which second pair of rolls the stream or length of clay marked
fis drawn through them, and its density and breadth increased, and its thickness
reduced.
The construction of the second or finishing pair of rolls, and parts connected
therewith, will be best understood by referring to the enlarged views, Figures
3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.
Around each of the rolls h, i, an endless belt of moleskin or other flexible material
works and travels, the clay coming in contact only with the said belts. These
endless travelling belts are marked respectively h², 12. The endless belt h², besides
passing over the roll k, and receiving motion therefrom, also passes over the
adjustable guide roller ³, and similarly the endless belt 2 of the roll i passes over
the adjustable guide rollers 3, 14, as best seen in Figure 6. The guide rollers h³, 1³,
and, are carried by the sliding blocks or screw boxes k, k; and the latter are
adjusted in the slots ² in the housings of the rolls by the screws k³. By adjusting
the position of the guide rollers h³, ³, is, by means of the screws ³ the required
tension may be put on the belts h², i³.
By combining the endless travelling belts 2, 2, with the second or finishing rolls
h, i, as represented, the action of the rolls upon the clay is made more regular than
if the rolls acted directly upon the clay, and a smoother surface is given to the
clay.
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By an examination of Figures 1 and 6 it will be seen that the adjustable guide
roller of the belt is situated nearly on a level with the meeting edges of the
finishing rolls h, i, so that the part of the belt marked between the highest part of
the periphery of the lower roll i and the top guide roller is horizontal, and forms a
travelling platform on which the stream of clay as it issues from between the rolls h, i,
is carried, and by which it is conveyed to the delivering band (best seen in Figures 3
and 4) by which band the stream of clay is conducted to the cutting-up table
herein-after described.
The bearings of the upper roll are adjustable in the vertical slots h³ in the
housings of the rolls by means of the screws hº (see Figure 6), so that the upper.

page_text: roll h may be adjusted at the proper distance from the lower roll i, according to
the thickness of the stream of clay required. .
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The pair of finishing rolls h, i, are driven in the following way--m is the
driving shaft carrying the ordinary fast and loose pulleys. On the said driving
shaft m is a small toothed wheel m², which gears with a toothed wheel m³ on the
axis of the lower roll i. Gearing with the small toothed wheel m² on the driving
shaft m is a larger toothed wheel m, which latter wheel gears with the toothed
wheel me on the axis of the upper roll h (see Figure 6).
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To accommodate the driving toothed wheel (by which motion from the driving
shaft is transmitted to the upper roll ) to the change of position of the upper roll,
the bearing me of the toothed wheel m' is made capable of adjustment in the curved
slot m8 in the standard of the rolls, as represented in Figure 6. The bearing m is
fixed in the curved slot by the screw m7. The curved slot m8 is concentric with
the axis of the toothed wheel m², which drives the lower roll i.
By the arrangement represented the driving gear wheel m¹ of the upper roll
can be made to follow the toothed wheel m5 on the said upper roll without being
ungeared from the gear wheel m², which drives the lower roll i.
The arrangement of parts for trimming and dividing when necessary the stream
of clay after it has issued from the finishing rolls h, i, and before it is received on
the endless delivering belt 1, is best seen in the enlarged views, Figures 6 and 7. ;
In front of the standard or housing in which the finishing rolls h, i, work is a
series of three (or more) vertical cutting wires n, p, n, carried by the cross bars q, q.
These wires slide in slots or openings in the bars q, q, so as to be capable of adjust-
ment nearer to or further from one another. After adjustment the said cutting
wires are fixed. by the thumb screws represented. As the stream of clay is carried
forward by the travelling platform at ³ in front of the finishing rolls h, i, against
the outside cutting wires n, n, the said wires trim and cut off the surplus clay
from the edges of the stream of clay; and, when the middle cutting wire p is
used, the said stream of clay is divided by the said middle wire into two streams. :
The trimmed or. trimmed and 'divided stream of clay after it has passed the cutting
wires n, p,.n, is received on the upper layer of the delivering endless belt 1, the
said belt being situated around a series of parallel rollers 12, 13.
The construction and working of the endless delivering belt Z will be best under-
stood by referring to Figures 3, 4, and 5 of the Drawings.
The end roller over which the belt works is driven from the toothed wheel m³
on the lower finishing roll i through the toothed wheel 4, pulley 15, driving band 2",
pulley, and toothed wheels 18, 110, the toothed wheel 710 being fixed on the axis of
the end roller 13, as represented.
The stream of clay is delivered by the endless belt on to the compound or
double-acting cutting-up table, which I will next describe, by which said table the
stream of clay is divided into bricks, blocks, tiles, or quarries.
The said compound or double-acting cutting-up table is represented separately
drawn to a larger scale in Figures 8, 9, and 10; and its construction and action
will be best understood by referring to the said Figures 8, 9, and 10..
The said cutting-up table consists of a bed q composed of a series of parallel
rollers of small diameter arranged nearly close together, and working in the angle
plates on the tops of the uprights q², q²
Fixed to each of the uprights q, q, is a frame, the said frames being marked
respectively and 2. Each of the said frames 7, 72, carries a series of vertical
adjustable cutting wires 8 and t. There is thus arranged at each side of the longi-
tudinal edges of the cutting-up table q a series of cutting wires marked respectively
s and t. The table is prolonged on each side the middle or roller part q, the said
prolonged side parts being marked respectively u and v. The said parts u and v
of the table constitute receiving platforms on which the bricks, tiles, blocks, or
quarries cut from the stream of clay are received.
Working on the upper side of the rollers.q, q, of the middle part of the table is
a longitudinal pressing bar w provided. with a handle w for working it. The said

page_text: pressing bar is capable of being moved backwards and forwards or towards either
of the receiving platforms u or v.
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By means of the pressing bar w.the stream of clay delivered on to the roller
part of the table may be forced against the cutting wires s or t, and the bricks or
articles thus cut from the stream of clay transferred from the middle part q to the
side platform u or v of the table.
The pressing bar w is connected by the pins or bolts x, x, to a reciprocating slide
consisting of two sliding bars y, y, working under the table, and passing through
openings in the uprights 92, 92, of the said table. The slides or sliding bars y, y,
to which the pressing bar w is connected are supported upon the rocking arms or
levers 2, 2, connected to the axis or shaft z² the latter working in the bearings at
23, 23, on the bed plate of the table (see Figures 8 and 10).
The action of the cutting-up table is as follows:-When the stream of clay has
been received on the middle, part q from the delivering belt the pressing bar w,
which is for the time being situated at the edge of the table carrying the wires 8,
is moved by the workman towards the receiving platform u on the opposite side of
the table.
By the motion of the pressing bar w in the direction of the arrow, Figure 9, the
stream of clay on the middle part q of the table is forced against the cutting wires
t, t, by which the stream of clay is divided into bricks, blocks, tiles, or quarries,
and the bricks or articles deposited on the receiving platform u from which they
are removed by hand.
Another portion or length of the stream of clay having been received on the
middle part q of the cutting-up table a backward motion is given to the pressing
bar w, so as to return it to the position represented in the Drawing. By this back-
ward or contrary motion of the pressing bar w the stream of clay is driven against
the cutting wires 8, 8, at the opposite side of the table, and the bricks or articles
cut from the said stream of clay are deposited on the opposite receiving plat-
form v.
In Figure 10 the divided streams of clay, which have been deposited on the
receiving platforms u and v by the backward and forward motions of the pressing
bar ware marked 2, 2.
It will thus be understood that at each backward or forward stroke, of the
pressing bar w the stream of clay is forced against one of the series of cutting
wires 8 or t, and the divided stream of clay deposited on the receiving platform u
or v.
Although I prefer to use in combination the several arrangements described for
forming, trimming, dividing, and carrying forward the stream of clay, and for
cutting it up into bricks, blocks, tiles, or quarries, yet the said arrangements may
be used separately in combination with ordinary or other brick, block, tile, or
quarry-making machine.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in which
the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself
to the precise details herein described and illustrated, as the same may be varied
without departing from the nature of my Invention; but I claim as my Invention
of improvements in machinery for the manufacture of bricks, paving blocks, tiles,
and quarries,-
First. The combination in a brick, block, tile, or quarry-making machine of two
pairs of rolls for preparing and finishing the stream of clay, the said two pairs of
rolls being arranged and operating substantially as and for the purposes herein-
before described, and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Secondly. The combination with the second or finishing pair of rolls of travelling
endless belts of moleskin or other flexible material for the purposes and substantially
as herein-before described, and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Thirdly. The arrangements or combinations of the parts herein-before described,
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings, for adjusting the tension of the
endless belts of the finishing rolls, and for driving the said finishing rolls, and for

page_text: adjusting the position of the gear wheel of the upper. roll of the finishing rolls to
the change of position of the said upper roll without ungearing the said gear wheel
of the upper roll from the gear wheel which drives the lower roll.
Fourthly. The arrangement or combination of parts herein-before described, and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawings, for trimming and dividing the stream
of clay as it is delivered from the finishing rolls, and before it is received on the
delivering or travelling endless belt by which it is conveyed to the cutting-up
table.
Fifthly. The combination of parts herein-before described, and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawings, of the delivering endless belt.
Sixthly. The construction and combination of the parts of the compound or
double-acting cutting-up table herein-before described, and illustrated in the accom-
panying Drawings.
Lastly. Serrating or notching the pressing or scraping edges of the plates or
scrapers which bear against the cylindrical surfaces of the first pair or preparing
rolls of the machine, as herein-before described, and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Hamblet, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Thirty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-eight.
JOSEPH HAMBLET. (L.S.) ·