A NEW BRICK AND TILE-MAKING MACHINE
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jozé Luis, of the British & Foreign Office for
Patents, No. 1º, Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, London, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "A NEW
BRICK AND TILE-MAKING MACHINE."-A communication from abroad by
Alexis Maigné, of Paris, in the Empire of France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jozé Luis at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th September 1859.
I, Joze Luis, of the British & Foreign Office for Patents, No. 1, Welbeck
Street, Cavendish Square, London, in the County of Middlesex, Patent
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW
BRICK AND TILE-MAKING MACHINE," (& that it has been communicated to me
from abroad by Alexis Maigné, of Paris, in the Empire of France,) to be as
follows:-
The machine is composed of two cylinders arranged the same as the ordinary
rolling and pressing machines, and leaving between them a grooved or fluted
space in which the brick is formed. Motion is communicated to the machine
by means of a crank worked by a single man; a pinion fixed on the shaft or
axle of the crank moves a cog wheel, which gears with the cog wheel of ono
of the cylinders, and this cylinder in turn by means of lateral cog wheels puts
the second cylinder in motion. A box placed above contains the kneaded clay

page_text: which, on the man putting the cylinders in motion by means of the crank, is
drawn on by the groove-work of the cylinders which move in an opposite
direction. A circular guide receives the brick when it comes out of the
groove-work, it then slides upon an endless cloth turning round small drums; on
arriving here, the brick, which is about ten inches in width, is cut longitudinally
in two equal parts by an iron wire arranged for that purpose, boards sliding on
rollers placed at the bottom of the frame carry the brick to another part, where
an iron wire fixed in a frame moved by two cams cuts the bricks into the desired
lengths. The clay is prevented from sticking to the cylinders by coating the
latter with a sort of cloth prepared for that purpose; the cloth renders the
bricks perfectly smooth, and the surface is less porous than of those made in
the old way. A man may, without fatigue, make the crank revolve nine times
per minute, which would produce 18 bricks, or 1080 per hour.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Jozé Luis in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
15th March 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Jozs
Luis, of the British & Foreign Office for Patents, No. 1", Welbeck Street,
Cavendish Square, London, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Jozé Luis, Her special licence that I, the said Jozé Luis,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Jozé Luis, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW
BRICK AND TILE-MAKING MACHINE," a communication from abroad by
Alexis Maigné, of Paris, in the Empire of France, upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Jozó Luis, my executors or admini-
strators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of

page_text: the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Jozé Luis, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement and accompanying Drawings, that is to say:―
The object of the present Invention is a machine for making bricks, by
which great economy in time and labour is effected, three men being sufficient
to put the machine in motion, and to feed the machine, and remove the bricks.
The man turning the crank, can, without fatigue, give nine revolutions to the
wheel per minute, which would equal a production of 18 bricks per minute,
or 1080 bricks per hour. The machine is very light, and may be placed
without expense or trouble to the manufacturer.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1, longitudinal elevation of the machine; Fig. 2, side view of same;
Fig. 3, plan of same; Fig. 4 represents the clay, part of which is cut into a
brick form. The machine is composed of two cylinders A, B, gearing with
each other as in the ordinary rolling and pressing machines, and having
between them an empty space in which the brick is formed. Motion is
communicated to the machine by means of a crank which can be moved by
one man. The pinion D fixed on the shaft of the crank causes the cog
wheel E, gearing with the cog wheel of the cylinder B to move. The
cylinder A is put in movement by the cylinder B by means of the cog wheels
of the two cylinders.
The modus operandi is as follows:-The box or receptacle Z is first filled
with kneaded clay, which, on the man putting the machine in movement, is
drawn in the groove of the cylinders, which move in an opposite direction to
each other. A circular guide N receives the brick on its passing from tho
groove, and it slides on a cloth, which acts as endless band round the small
drums V, V. On arriving at the point V, the brick, which is ten inches in
width is cut longitudinally in two equal parts by an iron wire M for that
purpose. Planks sliding on the rollers S situated in the lower part of the
frame carry the brick up to the point 0, where an iron wire attached to the
frame L, moved by the cams J, J, cut the bricks the desired length. In
order to prevent the adherence of the clay to the cylinders, they are sur-
rounded by a piece of cloth prepared for that purpose. The cloth renders the

page_text: surface of the brick perfectly even, and less porous than those made in the
ordinary manner, acted on by the rolling cylinders A, B, the brick is subjected
to a much greater, and at the same time more uniform pressure than is
obtained by any other process. The angles of the bricks are more determined
and the surface even and rectangular.
Having thus described my Invention, and the manner in which the same is
or may be carried into effect, I wish it to be understood what I claim and
desire to secure by Letters Patent is the arrangement of apparatus as herein-.
before described and represented in the annexed Drawings for the purposes
herein specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jozé Luis, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this 15th day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and sixty."