Improvements in connection with the Drying of Bricks and other Articles and Substances.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Jan., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 16th Feb., 1898-Accepted, 26th March, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connection with the Drying of Bricks and other
Articles and Substances.
I, EDWIN GIBSON, Brick Maker, of 51, Percival Road, Bush Hill Park, Enfield, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in connection with the drying of bricks
and other articles and substances, and although more particularly intended for bricks,
can be employed for any articles or substances requiring analogous treatment. The
objects are to protect the bricks from rain and bad weather, while drying by air and
sun previous to being put in the kiln. On a suitable base are arranged two boards
side by side with a space between them. Upstanding from the base and through the
space between the boards is a framework having a weather pitched ridge along the
top and over hanging on each side of the frame. Below the ridge and on each side
of the frame is hinged a flap or wing of sufficient width when opened to protect the
bricks or the like placed on the boards as above mentioned. The wings are connected
at the ends by flexible hoods, and can be raised or lowered by ropes, wires, chains, or
the like, passing round pullies and manipulated from the end or any other convenient
part by rolling or un-rolling the wire or equivalent on or off a reel, or by any other
suitable means. Several of the above arrangements can be provided side by side, and
the whole braced together by cross battens at the top. When the weather is suitable
for drying by direct exposure, the wings or flaps can be let down, when the weather
is unfavorable, they can be raised.
1000
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, London, E.C., Agents for Applicant.
Improvements in connection with the Drying of Bricks and other
Articles and Substances.
I, EDWIN GIBSON, Brick Maker, of 41, Percival Road, Bush Hill Park, Enfield,
do hereby declare the nature of this 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 relates to improvements in connection with the drying of bricks and
other articles and substances, and although more particularly intended for bricks,
can nevertheless be employed for whiting, pottery ware, and any other articles. or
substances requiring analogous treatment. The objects are to protect the bricks.or
other articles from rain and bad weather while drying by air and sun previous to

page_text: being put in the kiln or otherwise dealt with, and to afford this protection in an
effective and quickly applied manner, and with the employment of much less hand
labor than is needed at present. In carrying my invention into practice, I proceed
in or in about the following manner, making reference to the accompanying sheets of
drawings of which Fig. 1, is a longitudinal section. Fig. 2, a plan. Fig. 3 a cross section,
and Fig. 4, a part sectional plan. Similar letters denote the same parts wherever
occurring. On and attached to suitable base pieces a are arranged two boards b b
side by side with a space c between them. Upstanding from the bases a and
through the space between the boards b are the posts d carrying a weather pitched
ridge e extending longitudinally and over-hanging on each side of the posts.
Below e and on each side of d is a hinged flap or wing f of sufficient width that when
opened out they will protect the bricks g or whatever else is placed on the boards b.
The wings are connected at each end by a flexible hood and can be raised or
lowered by any suitable means as by ropes, wires, rods, chains, or the like passing
round pullies and manipulated from the end or any other convenient part. A
suitable arrangement is shown in the drawing. Under each flap is an arm i hinged
to the flap at j, and each arm hinged to the other at k. From each hinged point k is
At the lower
pivotted a hanging rod. running in a guide m attached to the post d.
end of is a loop n to which is attached one end of a cord or chain o passing
downwards, round the pully p, through a hole in the post d and finally fastened
to a rod 9 also running through the post d. The rods q are linked together
as at r. To the end of one of the rods q is attached a chain or cord 8 passing
through the last of the posts d, and wound round a drum t which can be rotated
by a handle or by a pivotted lever u having a pawl v engaging with the teeth
of the ratchet wheel won the axle of the drum. The flexible hoods h are raised
or lowered by a lever x passing through the end post and working on a pivot y, to
one end of a being attached the end of the cord or chain z which runs down d, over
The other end
the pully A, through a hole in the post and thence to the drum t.
of x is hinged to the hood. The arrangement of parts is made in sections of suitable
lengths, which can be connected to one another in any suitable manner, as by
a batten B attached to one section and passed under a loop C on the adjacent
section. Several of the arrangements can be provided side by side and braced
together by cross bars D put over upstanding pins E on the ridge piece. By connect-
ing the drums, they might all be wound up together. If desired, the drums
might be situated in and operated from an adjoining shed or building, instead
of on the appliance itself. Assuming the flaps f to be down and the articles
on b to be exposed to the air or sun, then when bad weather comes on by
winding up the drum t, the various vertical rods and cords will be drawn downwards
and thrust outwards, the arms i and levers x thus opening the hoods and flaps and
protecting the bricks or whatever else may be on b. When the bad weather has
passed, the flaps and hoods can be lowered, and so on as occasion requires.
I do not confine myself to the precise shapes, relative proportions or disposition of
the various parts constituting my improved apparatus as above described or as shown
in the drawings, as various modifications are possible without departure from the
essential features of the invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
CLAIMS.
1. An improved appliance for use in connection with the drying of bricks and
other articles and substances, the said appliance consisting essentially of two boards
on which to rest whatever is to be dried, the said boards being connected by cross
base pieces from which and between the boards upstand posts, the upper ends of
which are connected by a ridge piece, below which are hinged flaps or wings, and at
each end a flexible hood, the said flexible hoods and the said hinged flaps or wings
being raised or lowered as and when required by rolling cords, chains, or the like on

page_text: or off a drum, the said cords, chains, or the like acting on horizontal and vertical
rods, the latter of which operate hinged arms below the flaps and pivotted levers
below the hoods, the whole substantially as described in the above Specification and
exemplified in the accompanying drawings.
2. The combination of parts substantially as described in the above Specification
and exemplified in the accompanying drawings, and together forming and operating
as an improved appliance for use in connection with the drying of bricks and other
articles and substances.
Dated this 27th day of January 1898.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, London, E.C., Agents for Applicant.