A Revolving Machine for Making Bath Scouring Bricks.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 20th June, 1896
Complete Specification Loft 40th
4007 Ancantad
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Luna 4007
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Revolving Machine for Making Bath Scouring Bricks.
I, WILLIAM MAIDMENT, of Parrett Lodge, Hawkhurst, Bridgwater, Brick
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a new or improved revolving machine for the manufacture
or production of bath scouring bricks or the like, the objects being to reduce the
labour to a minimum and to allow of a greater output in a lesser time than has
hitherto been attainable by the method such as at present employed for this
purpose.
In carrying my invention into practical effect, the necessary moulds are fixed or
arranged in batches upon a revolving wheel which is made in sections, and each
brick is moulded singly while they are released four at a time. As the wheel
revolves a knife, wire or the like cuts the surface of the said bricks level with the
top of the mould and after sanding the surface of the said bricks, a hinged
stamping plate, is then lowered stamping or impressing a name, dévice or the like
upon each batch of bricks.
I further provide a lever which is suitably arranged under the wheel, which,
when released allows a batch of bricks to fall or drop a suflicient distance, thereby
enabling the wheel to revolve, and whilst one batch of bricks is being moulded, the
opposite batch is taken out or removed.
Dated this 20th day of T1000
F. G. CASSELL
(Of Cassell & Co.),
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, W.,
Agent for the Applicant.
A Revolving Machine for Making Bath Scouring Bricks.
I, WILLIAM MAIDMENT, of Parrett Lodge, Hawkhurst, Bridgwater, Brick
Manufacturer, 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 a new or improved revolving machine for the manufacture
or production of bath scouring bricks or the like, the object being to reduce the
labour to a minimum, and to allow of a greater output in a lesser time than has
hitherto being attainable by the method such as at present employed for this
purpose.
In order that my invention may be fully understood, I will now proceed to
describe same with reference to the accompanying drawings in which
Fig. 1 is a plan.
Fig. 2 is a front view of the machine, and
Fig. 3 is a view of the sliding portion of the machine with two bricks thereon,
illustrating the position of such portion immediately the bricks come from the
mould, as hereinafter explained.
In carrying my invention into practical effect. I. fix a number of brick

page_text: moulds 1, 2, 3, and 4, upon the table or revolving portion of the machine, said part
revolving on bearings of any suitable description as at A. A mould is filled and
the machine is then turned round to the position shown in the drawings, that is,
with the full mould alongside the receiver portion of the machine.
A piece of board B is now placed on the top of the mould and these together
with the name-plate C are turned over on the hinges D, the board B coming upon
suitable supports E which are fastened to the sliding part of the receiver F.
The sliding part of the machine is operated as follows:-The foot is pressed on
a step G connected with one end of a lever whereby the portion F is lowered,
bringing with it the board B and the bricks I which slip from the mould as the
board comes from under same. The end of each mould is furnished with a small
catch K which rests on a bracket L and keeps the mould in a horizontal position
whilst over the receiver.
When the bricks are removed from the receiver the foot is taken from the step G
and the sliding part rises again by means of a counter-weight M secured to the
other end of the lever.
The name plate C which works on hinges with the mould or independently is
now turned back the mould being also turned back for re-filling. In the meantime
other moulds have been filled and they are in turn revolved round into the required
position over the receiver, and discharged as already described.
A suitably arranged knife or wire may be employed for cutting level the surface
of the bricks as they revolve, but as in some cases, this method is not altogether
satisfactory I prefer to adopt a wet wooden "striker" and with it the moulder at
one operation strikes the surface of each set of moulds as filled which gives a
smooth and even surface to the bricks. No pressure is applied in moulding, the
material of which the bricks are formed being run through a pug mill and thrown
by the moulder into the mould, the surface of the bricks being struck off as above
described.
I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to precise details, relative
proportions or dimensions of the various parts hereinbefore described and
illustrated by the accompanying drawings, as the same may be varied without
departing from the principle of the invention. For instance, in the drawings
I have shown four double brick moulds 1, 2, 3, and 4, but my improved machine
. will adapt itself to any number of moulds which may contain more or less brick
compartments of any dimensions as desired, also two or more receivers may be
employed as circumstances require.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The new or improved machine for the moulding of bath scouring bricks,
substantially as herein described and shown and for the purposes specified.
2. In a machine such as above claimed the novel arrangement of the revolving
moulds 1, 2, 3, and 4, substantially as herein described and shown and for the
purposes specified.
3. In combination with a machine such as above claimed the novel arrangement
of mechanism for relieving the moulds of their contents and consequently the
receiver portion of my machine, substantially as herein described and shown, and
for the purposes specified.
Dated this 18th day of March 1897
F. G. CASSELL
(Of Casseil & Co.),
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, W.,
Agent for the Applicant.