Improvements in or connected with Brick Making Machines.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Brick Making Machines.
We, WILLIAM ORMROD, of Winwick, near Warrington, Brick Maker, and
JOHN WILLIAM WILD, of Wallgate, Wigan, Buxton Lime Merchant, both in the
County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to brick making apparatus, and has for its object among
other things, to avoid having to handle the bricks so much as hitherto before
putting them into the oven or kiln, also to save labour and quicken the speed of
production.
In carrying the invention into effect, we feed the clay to a pug mill as usual,
which works and mixes it, and then force it through a mouth-piece or die into a
transverse channel or passage, on one side of which are a series of wires or cutters,
and on the other a plunger actuated by suitable machinery (driven by hand
or power) which presses the slab of clay laterally against the wires or cutters and
cuts it up into bricks or blocks. On the other side of the knives or cutters we provide
the machine with a shelf which is large enough to hold one row of bricks as they are
cut by the wires, and a truck provided with a flat table, the top of which latter is
exactly the same height as the height of the shelf.
The mode of action as follows:-
A stream of clay having been fed into the transverse channel and a truck wheeled
up against the shelf so that its flat table will abut against it, and fastened thereto by
a stay or otherwise, the pusher is operated to press the clay laterally against and
through the cutters, and so on to the shelf on the other side thereof, thus cutting it
up into bricks or blocks. The operation is repeated and another slab of clay is cut by
the cutters and forced on to the shelf pressing the previously cut bricks on to the flat
top of the truck. This operation is repeated again and again until the truck is full,
and it is then detached and wheeled away to the oven or elsewhere and another truck
substituted in its place to receive the next charge, a row of bricks being however
always left on the shelf. This arrangement insures the clay being cut right through
by the wires, as if the bricks on the shelf are not cut completely through by
the wires, the next succeeding slab of clay which is pressed against the wires
completes the cutting of the previous lot when pushing them forward on to the flat
top of the truck. This insures all the bricks being turned out with beautiful sharp
edges, because the clay is pushed completely past the wires before delivery on to the
truck, and thus there is no danger of any mutilation of the edges through the clay
not being cut completely through.

page_text: Improvements in or connected with Brick Making Machines.
We, WILLIAM ORMROD, of Winwick, near Warrington, Brick Maker, and JOHN
WILLIAM WILD, of Wallgate, Wigan, Buxton Lime Merchant, both in the County of
Lancaster, 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:-
This invention relates to brick making apparatus, and has for its object among
other things, to avoid having to handle the bricks so much as hitherto before putting
them into the oven or kiln, also to save labour and quicken the speed of production.
The invention will be understood from the following description, reference being
had to the accompanying drawing which shows our invention applied to a cutting
table.
In carrying the invention into effect, we feed the clay to a pug mill as usual
which works and mixes it and then forces it through a mouthpiece or pipe into a
transverse channel or passage A, on one side of which are a series of wires or cutters B
and on the other a plunger C actuated by suitable machinery driven by hand or
power which presses the slab of clay D laterally against the wires or cutters B and
cuts it up into bricks or blocks. On the other side of the knives or cutters we pro-
vide the machine with a shelf E which is large enough to hold one row of bricks
as they are cut by the wires and a truck F provided with a flat table G, the top of
which latter is exactly the same height as the height of the shelf E.
The mode of action is as follows:
A stream of clay having been fed into the transverse channel A and the truck F
wheeled up against the shelf E so that its flat table G will abut against it and
fastened thereto by a stay H or otherwise, the pusher C is operated to press the
clay D laterally against and through the cutters B and so on to the shelf E on the
other side thereof, thus cutting it up into bricks or blocks. The operation is
repeated and another slab of clay is cut by the cutters B and forced onto the shelf E
pressing the previously cut blocks on to the flat top of the truck. This operation
is repeated again and again until the truck is full, when it is then detached and
wheeled away to the drying shed or elsewhere and another truck substituted in its
place to receive the next charge, a row of bricks being however always left on the
shelf E. This arrangement ensures the clay being cut right through with the
wires, as if the bricks on the shelf are not cut completely through by the wires
the next succeeding slab of clay which is pressed against the wires completes the
cutting of the previous lot when pushing them forward on to the flat top of the
truck. This ensures all the bricks being turned out with sharp edges, because
the clay is pushed completely past the wires before delivery on the truck, and thus
there is no danger of any mutilation of the edges through the clay not being cut
completely through.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1. In brick-making apparatus, the combination with the cutting table of a shelf
located on the opposite side of the knives or cutters to that of the channel or passage
into which the pugged clay is fed, and a truck provided with a flat table, the top
of which latter is exactly the same height as the height of the shelf, whereby the
blocks can be conveyed away to the drying shed without hand manipulation, while
it is ensured that the bricks are cut completely through by the cutters, substantially
as-described.
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page_text: 2. The use in connection with brick-making apparatus of a truck provided with a
flat smooth table for carrying the bricks, the surface of said table being level with
the top of the brick-cutting table, in combination with a stay capable of holding the
end of this truck close up to the shelf or table from which the bricks or blocks are
5 delivered, whereby said bricks or blocks will be delivered direct on to the truck with-
out hand manipulation, or by uncoupling the stay, the truck can be moved away
with its charge of bricks to the drying shed and another like truck substituted
instead, substantially as described.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Patent Agents, of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and London.