Improved Appliances connected with the Filling of Brick and like Moulds.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 18th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 23rd Jan., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Appliances connected with the Filling of Brick and
like Moulds.
I, JOHN ABRAHAM NOEL, of 1 Romilly Road, Cardiff, Glamorganshire,
Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to filling brick and like moulds by gravity, such as by
permitting dry, semi-dry, plastic, or semi-plastic material to fall from a height
into a mould or moulds on a table at a level on which the moulds can be filled in
succession as moved along. The shoot down which the material falls is provided
at its upper end with a draw plate on which the quantity is first measured and
the lower part just above the mould aperture is provided with scraper or smoothing
tools to level or strike the top surface of the material.
The measure can be filled by hand or by manual labour, or by some kind of
mechanism, and the mould can also be moved intermittently by hand or by
mechanical power. Where the nature of the material is somewhat stiff like clay,
it can be pressed or trodden into the measure to partially solidify it.
The measure need not correspond to the capacity of the mould, as a slight excess
can be supplied in order that the scraper tools by exerting a pressure during the
movement of the mould may compress as well as level the material.
I have referred to a single shoot but they can be duplicated to any extent, and
instead of the surfacing tools being fitted, the moulds when charged can be moved
under a press head for the solidification of the material, the main feature of the
invention being the filling of moulds by gravity from a height.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said John Abraham Noel.
Improved Appliances connected with the Filling of Brick and
like Moulds..
1, JOHN ABRAHAM NOEL, of 1 Romilly Road, Cardiff, Glamorganshire,
Mechanical 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 :-
This invention relates to improved appliances connected with the filling of brick
and like moulds.
For the purpose of making my invention clear and to also define the feature of
novelty, I would state that it is devised for the manipulation by moulding of clays,
cements, or ground or powdered stone materials which hitherto have been moulded
by hand in the style commonly known as slop moulding. Now in order to deal
with the filling of moulds, boxes, &c. I simply cause the filling to be effected by

page_text: allowing the materials to fall from any desired height into the moulds or boxes, the
material dropping simultaneously or by portions at a time according to the com-
position of the said material. This process 'can be effected in various ways,
viz. by an attendant emptying a shovel-scoop, box or any receptacle holding the
material into the top portion of a gravity shoot when the mould or box is filled to
an amount determined upon. The said mould or box is moved to a position
underneath a mechanical striker, the action of which both increases the density of
the contents already filled and also smooths the surface of the contents. The
striker may be a blade or a rapidly revolving disc capable of being drawn down
towards the surface of the mould. The frictional face of this disc may be
smooth or rough or of any device that the nature of the material may demand.
This striking may also be effected by passing the moulds under bevilled plates,
or the striking can be done by moving the strikers over the mould in lieu of
moving the moulds from position where they were filled. I have named the
simplest system of filling the moulds or boxes but this filling can be effected in
many ways of which the annexed sheet of drawings gives 3 examples.
Figure 1 part sectional elevation of one arrangement for moulding by gravity or
fall of material with fixed compressors and leveller on shoot.
Figure 2 part sectional elevation of gravity shoot with separate compressor and
leveller.
Figure 3 elevation of tipping device, gravity shoot, and pressers, or levellers, or
strikers.
I provide a fixed box on the top of shoot A, this box having a slide B at its
under side to be actuated by an attendant acting on the lever C (see Figure 1), or
a moving screen or sieve D may be erected, as at Figure 2, by which means more
effective distribution is secured, this sieve being actuated at will by the attendant.
Further, the filling may be done by a combination of gravity and mechanical force
by means of a series of revolving cups or buckets E, Figure 3, so arranged that by
causing these cups to traverse rapidly from one side to the other, and at that point
suddenly stop, the contents of the cups are sharply deposited into the shoot and
mould.
Different materials it is found require different means of actuating, hence the
foregoing description which I give, the invention itself is a device for filling and
facing off moulds of material by simple gravity, or centrifugal force, or both in
combination, and the consolidating and facing off by mechanical strikers either
rotary or reciprocating as referred to.
I have for couvenience at Figure 1 shown two moulds or boxes F for right or
left hand movement, the pressers or levellers G, G, being at two of the sides of the
shoot A.
According to Figure 2, the presser or leveller G is in the form of plate or dise
and can be rotated by the gear H and driver I.
If pressure as well as levelling is necessary, the handle C enables the disc to be
lowered.
The throw over tippers E, E, Figure 3, combine a force and gravity feed.
The friction or other wheel J having a motion imparted to it lifts the full cup
over the top centre, it then falls with a thud by its lug K coming into contact with
the end L of a bar M and forcibly ejects its contents into the shoot for reception
by the mould or box F. The bolt is then withdrawn for the cup to pass and is
instantly replaced, so that each cup is emptied in succession..
The bolt or bar is so fitted to the hand lever C that when out of reach of the
lugs K, K, the contents of the cups simply slide out into the box with a plate B,
or direct into the shoot A.
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.
The means for enabling moulds to be filled with substances by height of fall

page_text: within a shoot, the material being supplied in bulk, or in proportionate quantities.
as herein set forth and substantially by the appliances. represented on the
drawings.
1006
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said John Abraham Noel.