Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Building up the Inside of Kilns for Burning Enamelled Bricks and Tiles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Aug., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 12th May, 1890-Accepted, 12th July, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Building up the
Inside of Kilns for Burning Enamelled Bricks and Tiles.
I ALBERT TAYLOR of Hipperholme near Halifax in the County of York, Brick
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
Hitherto enamelled bricks and tiles have been placed (in kilns to be burnt) on
shelves, formed by large quarries or slabs of fireclay, supported at their ends by fire
bricks, after twice burning, the quarries or slabs crack or break with the weight
of the bricks, and fresh quarries are required, sometimes they break with one
burning.
To remedy this defect or waste, I employ a series of pieces of earthenware or fire-
clay slabs, with vertical and horizontal wings, and recesses at their corners, the end of
one horizontal wing resting on the recess of the next, the spaces formed on such wings
are for holding preferably only one brick or tile being enamelled; or the earthenware
pieces may consist of vertical pieces, and horizontal pieces with recesses so that they
can be built up any height, leaving sufficient spaces for one brick or tile only, the
horizontal pieces may arched on their undersides to allow the fumes or gases to
pass away.
The edges of the vertical slabs may be recessed at their outer edges to facilitate the
removal of the brick or tile.
1000
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Building up the
Inside of Kilns for Burning Enamelled Bricks and Tiles.
I, ALBERT TAYLOR, of Hipperholme near Halifax, in the County of York, Brick Maker,
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 :-
Hitherto enamelled bricks and tiles have been placed in kilns to be burnt, upon
shelves formed by large quarries or slabs of fireclay, supported at their ends by fire-
bricks; after twice burning the quarries or slabs crack or break with the weight of
the bricks, and fresh quarries are required, sometimes they break with once burning,
my invention is to remedy this defect, and is constructed as follows:-

page_text: The spaces C formed by these slabs are preferably, for holding one brick or tile D
in each, whilst being burnt.
Or the earthenware pieces or slabs, may consist of vertical slabs with recesses at the
top, in which fits a cover with projections upon it, such projections resting within the
recesses of the vertical slabs.
Or I may place the rectangular slabs A upon their ends see Figs. 3 and 4, having
a header E, with a curved recess F, underneath, to allow the fumes or gases to
escape.
The edges of the vertical slabs may be recessed at their outer edges to facilitate the
removal of the brick or tile.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The construction of fireclay or earthenware rectangular slabs, such as and for the
purposes shown and described.
2. The construction of fireclay or earthenware rectangular slabs, and headers, such
as and for the purposes shown and described.
Dated this Tenth day of May 1890.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Agent for the Applicant.