Improvements in Brick Machines.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brick Machines.
We, ADAM ADAMS, Brick Works Manager, of St. Michael's House, WILLIAM
NEALE, Engineer, of Ivy Villa, both of Old Fletton (near Peterborough), in the
County of Huntingdon, and LOUIS SIMPSON, Engineer, of Eye Green, near
Peterborough, in the County of Northampton, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
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In many forms of brick machines it is customary to convey the steam to the
steam-heated plunger by means of rubber tubing. This is both costly and
troublesome as the rubber tubing is continually wearing out. In some other
forms of brick machines the steam is conveyed to the plunger by means of a
long length of steam pipe with a coil at the end to enable it to follow the move-
ment of the plunger more readily. In both cases a considerable loss of steam
is caused through condensation.
In carrying this invention into effect, we connect the plunger, or other mov-
ing part to which it is desired to convey the steam, to the fixed part of the
machine by means of portions of metal tubing arranged to slide one within the
other telescopically and fitted with suitable glands and packing to make one or
more tight joints. The fixed part of the machine is connected to a boiler by
the usual tubing. In some cases may also be necessary to form an elbow
joint or a ball and socket joint to accommodate certain movements of the parts.
By means of this invention we are able to use steam at higher pressure, and
the loss due to condensation is not so great owing to the length of the. tubing
being less than when employing rubber tubing or the long length of pipe with
a coil at the end as herein before referred to.
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HARRIS & MILLS,
23, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.
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We, ADAM ADAMS, Brick Works Manager, of St. Michael's House, WILLIAM
NEALE, Engineer, of Ivy Villa, both of Old Fletton (near Peterborough), in the
County of Huntingdon, and LOUIS SIMPSON, Engineer, of Eye Green, near
Peterborough, in the County of Northampton, do hereby declare the nature of

page_text: this invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
In many forms of brick machines it is customary to convey the steam to the
steam heated plunger by means of rubber tubing. This is both costly and
troublesome as the rubber tubing is continually wearing out. In some other
forms of brick machines the steam is conveyed to the plunger by means of a
long length of steam pipe with a coil at the end to enable it to follow the move-
ment of the plunger more readily. In both cases a considerable loss of steam
is caused through condensation.
In carrying this invention into effect we connect the plunger, or other mov-
ing part to which it is desired to convey the steam, to the fixed part of the
machine by means of portions of metal tubing arranged to slide one within the
other telescopically and fitted with suitable glands and packing to make one or
more tight joints.
The fixed part of the machine is connected to a boiler by the usual tubing.
In some cases it may also be necessary to form an elbow joint or a ball and
socket joint to accommodate certain movements of the parts.
Our invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing which represents
parts of a four mould semi-dry brick making machine.
a a represent the side frames or other fixed parts of a brick machine and
the plunger, steam head or other moving part, to which it is desired to convey
the steam. Steam is conveyed to these parts in the following manner without
interfering with the free action of the moving part b. c is a steam pipe fitted
with a stop cock or valve cl, the lower end of this pipe is connected with the
lower end of a tubular steam heater which is fixed to the fixed part of the
machine by bolts, the upper end of this tubular steam heater d is provided
with a gland containing packing through which passes the lower part of a
metal pipe e the upper end of which is fixed in a tubular junction e¹ which
latter is fixed to the plunger or steam head b or to other moving part of the
machine by a bracket 2. The tubular junction el has fixed therein the upper
end of a tube the lower end of which is fixed at any suitable part of the
moving portion b. The steam from the tube e³ passes into the interior of the
plunger, steam head or other moving part of the machine which it traverses
and from which it passes out through a similar arrangement of fixed and moving
parts to those above described and finally passes away by the waste pipe f.
The above illustrates our invention applied to one particular form of machine
but we would have it understood that by slight modifications in the form and
position of the parts our invention is equally applicable to other forms of brick
machines. For instance in some cases it may be necessary to form an elbow
joint or a ball and socket joint to accommodate certain movements of the parts
and it may also be necessary in some cases to increase the number of the parts
herein before described.
By means of this invention we are able to use steam at higher pressure and
the loss due to condensation is not so great owing to the length of tubing being
less than when employing rubber tubing, or the long length of pipe with a
coil at the end as hereinbefore referred to.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is:
1. In a brick making machine the combination therewith of a tubular steam
heater fixed to a stationary part of the machine, a piston tube passing through
a gland in such steam heater and fixed to a moving part of the machine, and a
tube connected to said piston tube and conveying the steam to any desired part
of the moving part of the machine substantially as herein set forth.
2. In a brick machine the combination therewith of a tubular steam heater

page_text: fixed to a stationary part of the machine, a piston tube passing through a gland
in such steam heater and fixed to a moving part of the machine, a tube connected
to said piston tube and conveying the steam to any desired part of the moving
part of the machine, and a like arrangement of parts for conveying the waste
steam away from such moving part, substantially as herein set forth.
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HARRIS & MILLS.
23, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.