Automatic Separating Table for Brick Machine.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Automatic Separating Table for Brick Machine.
ALEX SWINNEY, 61, Newgate Street, Morpeth, Engineer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My patent has for its object the separating of the rectangular blocks of damp
clay after they have been pushed from the wire cutting table of a brick making
machine, and to deposit the same on to a special stool pallet ready for removal
to hacks or dryer without handling the bricks.
At present the usual practice is to allow the clay to be forced through the orifice
of the pug mill, along a table and when a suitable length of this clay is on such
table it is pushed sideways against vertical wires which cut the mass into desired
sections, these sections pass together on to a pallet board from which they have.
to be lifted by hand and separated for distribution on hacks, floors, trolleys, or
dryers.
My invention consists of making the side table with a top in pieces or pallets
of a similar size to the clay cut sections and by a mechanical device I separate
each pallet with clay section thereon so that there is sufficient air space between
the sections for the free passage of air in drying, and I then pass the same on to
a triple bar pallet, and obviate all handling of the bricks.
I add to an ordinary wire cutting off table a link, connecting rod, and levers,
so arranged that they operate a horizontal shaft upon which is fitted a series of
cams or blades which automatically operate on each pallet. These cams
blades are set at such a pitch as will separate the pallets to the desired distance
and give a uniform air space between the bricks.
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It will be evident that for half inch spacing the centre pallets will only move
that distance, whilst the outer pallets, right and left will travel two and a half
inches and the intermediates in proportion.
Dated this 31st day of August 1899.
Automatic Separating Table for Brick Machine.
ALEX SWINNEY, 61, Newgate Street, Morpeth, Engineer, 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 has for its object the automatic separating of the rectangular
blocks of damp clay after they have been pushed from the wire cutting table of a
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page_text: brick making machine, and the depositing of same on to a special pallet board
ready for removal to be dried without. further handling.
To fully illustrate and describe my invention, I attach hereto two sheets of
drawings containing Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5, representing different views of my in-
vention, and to which the following description has reference.*
To obtain my object I provide an ordinary brick cutting machine having
handle "A" Fig. 1 and the toothed quadrant "B" Fig. 2, and shaft "C" Fig. 1.
Upon this shaft "C" I fit link motion "J" and K" Fig. 3, and on the
shaft "N"I fit a series of cams of different pitch but similar to "L" on Fig. 5.
These cams work a pin on the underside of the sectional pallet table "0"
Figs. 1, 2, 3 & 5.
By this arrangement when the handle "A" is moyed, the pallet beard "0"
Fig. 1 is made continuous or separated as desired.
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On the same shaft C" Figs. 1, 2, 3, & 4, I fit another set of link motion,
marked "E"&"])" on Figs. 1 & 4, and this is connected with a double eye "F"
on shaft "I working a lever "G" on same shaft "I" Fig. 4, which in turn
causes the table "H" on Fig. 4 to slide towards or away from the pallet "O."
The combined motion therefore is that when the hand lever "A" is moved,
the pallet board "0" is separated, and the table "H" is moved simultaneously
as above described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is-
1. A continuous pallet table which is automatically separated into sections by
levers and cams as above described.
2. A pallet board to receive the separated rectangular blocks of clay worked
in the manner as above described.
SNOWBALL & Co.,
Crown Chambers, Side, Newcastle-on-Tyne,
Agents for the Applicant.