An Improved Brick Press to be Worked by Steam or other Motive Power.
Year: 1897

page_text: An Improved Brick Press to be Worked by Steam or other Motive
Power.
I, WILLIAM HENRY HUGHES, of Plaskynaston Foundry, Ruabon, in the County of
Denbigh, North Wales, Machine Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved brick press to be worked by steam or other
motive power; the presses to which my improvements are applicable are those in
which the wire cut or roughly finished bricks are fed to the press by a feeding slide
and after each brick has been pressed and finished in the press box and raised out of
the press box by the piston or follower, it is removed by the succeeding rough brick
actuated by the usual feeding slide moved forward on to the rest bench. In this
arrangement the finished brick is liable to be injured by the unfinished brick coming
into contact with it and further the operative is liable to have his hands injured when
removing the finished brick by the top press in making its downward movement.
The object of my invention is to obviate both of these objections and to effect this
I construct an improved slide arranged to push the finished brick from the top box
of the press say three inches or so beyond the die and on to the rest bench out of all
danger and simultaneously to move the rough unfinished brick on to the press top
box in position ready to be pressed and finished.
Dated this 14th day of Anril 1907
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Brick Press to be Worked by Steam or other Motive
Power.
I, WILLIAM HENRY HUGHES, of Plaskynaston Foundry, Ruabon, in the County of
Denbigh, North Wales, Machine 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:-
My invention relates to an improved brick press to be worked by steam or other
motive power; the presses to which my improvements are applicable are those in
which the wire cut or roughly finished bricks are fed to the press by a feeding slide
and after each brick has been pressed and finished in the press box and raised out of
the press box by the piston or follower, it is removed by the succeeding rough brick
actuated by the usual feeding slide moved forward on to the rest bench. In this
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page_text: arrangement the finished brick is liable to be injured by the unfinished brick coming
into contact with it and further the operative is liable to have his hands injured, when
removing the finished brick, by the top press in making its downward movement.
The object of my invention is to obviate both of these objections and to effect this
I construct an improved slide arranged to push the finished brick from the top box
of the press say three inches or so beyond the die and on to the rest bench out of all
danger and simultaneously to move the rough unfinished brick on to the press top box
in position ready to be pressed and finished.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings-
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a part of a power brick press to which my improvements
are applied, and Fig. 2 is a plan view of part of Fig. 1.
In these views, 2 designates the frame of the brick press, 3 the top or press box
in which the bricks are finished, and 4 the plunger for the press box 3. The plunger
is raised and lowered in the usual or other convenient manner and the bottom of the
top or press box 3 is formed as usual of a piston or plunger actuated by mechanism
not shown. The hinged slide 5 is mounted upon a table 6, it receives a reciprocating
motion by means of levers 7 and links 8 operated in any convenient manner, it is
provided as usual with a box or recess to receive a rough brick 9, and it is according
to my invention prolonged in front of its box and carries a bar 10, placed a few inches
or any desirable distance in front of the rough brick carried in the slide. If preferred
one side of the box or recess in the slide 5 could be dispensed with to allow the rough
brick to be moved sideways into the box or recess.
In the drawings the slide 5 is shown with a rough brick 9 placed in its box, and a
finished brick 11 which has been finished by the plunger 4 in the press box 3 and
pushed up level with the top of the box by the piston, and as the slide 5 advances in
the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 1, the pressed brick 11 is moved by the
bar 10 on to a table 12 and simultaneously the rough brick in the slide is brought
into position over the press box 3, the brick 9 is pressed and finished, the slide 5 is
drawn back and the operative places another rough brick in the recess in the slide 5
ready for the operations to be repeated.
The prolongation of the slide 5 with the bar 10 prevents the rough brick coming
into contact with and injuring the finished brick and moves each brick as it is finished
far enough beyond the press box to obviate any risk of accident to the operative from
the plunger 4 as it descends into the press box.
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. In a brick press to be worked by steam or other motive power an improved
reciprocating feeding slide provided with an extension and bar 10 or equivalent
distance piece and pusher, so arranged that the rough bricks do not come into
contact with the finished bricks and that the latter are by the bar on the
reciprocating slide moved a few inches beyond the press box whereby risk of
injury to operatives from the plunger is obviated, all substantially as and for the
purposes herein set forth.
2. The general construction, combination and arrangement of parts constituting
my improved power brick press substantially as herein set forth.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant, 17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.