Improvements in Machines for the Manufacture of Bricks and Briquettes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 28th May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Jan., 1890-Accepted, 1st Mar., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for the Manufacture of Bricks and
Briquettes.
We, NINIAN PROCTER, of 20 Amberly Grove, Chapeltown Road, Leeds, Chemist,
ARTHUR MIDDLETON, of Ben Rhydding, Stock Broker, CHARLES EDWARD FRASER,
of Holly Bank, Headingley, Leeds, Stock Broker, and HAROLD MARK CARTER, of
Cumberland House, Headingley, Leeds, Solicitor, all in the County of York, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our improvements have reference to an invention for which an application for
patent has been made by us dated 9th January 1889 No. 409, and has for its object
the more perfect and certain feeding of the material to the machine, by which
improvements we are enabled to feed the material into the machine in the exact
quantities in which such material passes from the machine into the mould.
In a suitable position over the horizontal feeding cylinder which supplies the
material to the moulds, is provided a box or hopper; at the bottom of such hopper
there is a rotating drum mounted in suitable bearings. Through the drum and at
right angles with the axis thereof an opening is provided, in which is fitted so as to
slide freely, a metal piece of suitable depth, such depth varying in accordance with
the quantity of material to be fed into the machine at each revolution of the
drum.
As the drum moves round, the metal piece slides down to the bottom side of the
hole leaving the uppermost part of the hole open for the reception of material with
which it is immediately filled.
As the drum revolves the material is forced out by the falling metal piece into the
interior of the horizontal cylinder in the exact quantity required.
The filling and emptying thus continuing alternately, a perfectly regular and exact
feed is obtained thereby.
J. W. HARDING,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for the Manufacture of Bricks and
Briquettes.
We NINIAN PROCTER of Amberley Grove, Chapeltown Road, Leeds, Chemist,
ARTHUR MIDDLETON of Ben Rhydding, Stock Broker, CHARLES EDWARD FRASER
of Holly Bank, Headingley, Leeds, Stock Broker, and HAROLD MARK CARTER of
Cumberland House, Headingley, Leeds, Solicitor, all in the County of York, 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:
Our invention relates to machines for the manufacture of bricks and briquettes
consisting of mixtures or combinations of material to be used for fuel, but may also
be employed for the manufacture of bricks and briquettes for other purposes.
Our improvements have reference to that part of such brick or briquette machine
which is used for the purpose of feeding the material into such machines.
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is a transverse section, and Fig. 2 an end
elevation, shewing part of machine with our improvements applied.
In a suitable position over the horizontal feeding cylinder A which supplies the
material to the moulds, is provided a box or hopper B; at the bottom of such
D

page_text: hopper B there is a rotating drum C mounted in suitable bearings D. Through the
drum C and at right angles with the axis thereof an opening E is provided, in which
is fitted so as to slide freely; a metal piece F of suitable depth, such depth depending
or varying in accordance with the quantity of material to be fed into the machine.
As the drum C'moves round, the metal piece F slides down to the bottom side of the
hole E leaving the uppermost part of the hole open for the reception of material
with which it is immediately filled. As the drum revolves the material is forced out
by the falling metal piece, into the interior of the horizontal cylinder as shewn at
Fig. 1, in the exact quantities required. The filling and emptying thus continued
alternately, a regular and exact feed is obtained thereby. The required rotary
motion is given to the drum C from some convenient moving part of the machine.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
The arrangement, construction and application of rotating drum C, having a
hole E through the centre at right angles with its axis, in which is inserted a metal
piece F of suitable depth for regulating the amount of feed from the hopper B, and
afterwards forcing the same nto the machine, substantially as and for purposes
herein set forth.