Improvements in Brick Machines.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 19th July, 1889-Accepted, 24th Aug.,
1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brick Machines.
1, JAMES DENHAM, of Canal Street Heaton Norris, Stockport in the County of
Lancashire, Millwright, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention has for its object to provide means for self-actingly counting and
registering the number of bricks made, whereby a great deal of time and labour is
saved.
My invention consists principally in providing brick machines with a counter,
which is actuated from the transversly moving frame, which slides the slab of clay
against the stationary frame, provided with one or more kuives or wires, or vice versa,
from a frame provided with one or more knives or wires, moving against the slab of
clay as the case may be, by connecting to the said transversely moving frame or
part, a rod or lever actuating a counter, of suitable construction.
This lever or rod I preferably furnish with a pawl in gear with a ratchet wheel, and
an anti-friction bowl, which latter at the end of each stroke of the said lever or rod,
comes into contact with a fixed incline and causes the lever and rod and pawl
connected thereto, to rise and impart a partial rotation to the said ratchet wheel.
The latter on its axis is furnished with a pinion which is arranged to gear into and
actuate a suitable train of spur wheels in connection with one or more index plates
and pointers.
The whole of the counter I fit into a strong box which can be locked securely so
as to prevent damage or undue use of the same.
Dated this 20th day of October 1888.
F. BOSSHARDT & CO.,
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brick Machines.
I, JAMES DENHAM, of Canal Street, Heaton, Norris, Stockport in the County of
Lancashire, Millwright and 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, to provide means for self-actingly counting and
registering the number of bricks made, whereby a great deal of time and labour is
saved.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to be
appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference indicating
like parts in the various figures.
Fig. 1. is an end view and Fig. 2. a plan of a brick machine showing the counter
applied. Fig. 3. is an enlarged front view of the interior of the construction of the
counter, preferably applied.
A is the body of the brick machine, where the clay is introduced, B the brick
table, the knife frame, D the frame or part which moves the slab of clay F,
against the knife frame C, E the knife frame which cuts the clay into slabs F', on
coming from the machine, Ĝ is the counter.
In carrying out my invention, the improvements consist principally in providing
brick machines with a counter G, which is actuated from the transversely moving
frame or part D, which slides the slab of clay F against the stationary frame C,
provided with one or more knives or wires d or vice versa, from a frame provided
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page_text: with one or more knives or wires moving against the slab of clay F, as the case may
be, by connecting to the said transversely moving frame or part D, a rod or lever g
actuating a counter G, of suitable construction preferably such as illustrated.
The counter G, I preferably employ on the side of the frame or part D, one end of
the rod or lever g, thereof, being either screwed into or pivoted to the same and the
other end caused to project into the counter and slide in a bracket g¹, bolted thereto
from the inside and on a pulley y², see Fig. 3.
This rod or lever g I furnish with an incline or cam a to operate on an anti-friction
bowl b and ratchet pawl e in gear with a ratchet wheel, suitably mounted, the anti-
friction bowl b and ratchet pawle being fixed adjustably on a lever d, pivoted to a
bracket e, fixed inside the counter G.
The ratchet wheel is prevented from moving backwards by means of a pawl c
and on its axis, is furnished with a pinion f, which is arranged in gear with and to
actuate a suitable train of spur wheels h, h1, h2, h3, h4, h³, in connection with one or
more index plates i and pointers i, suitably mounted in the frame k.
The whole counter mechanism is arranged in a strong box closed by means of
two doors 1, 12, see Fig. 1. the door being bolted thereto from the inside and the
door hinged thereto and locked to the latter by means of an ordinary lock, the
key hole m of which is covered by means of a metal band n hinged to the door l
and secured to the door by means of a padlock o, whereby damage to or undue use
of the counter is effectually prevented.
Instead of connecting the counter G. viz. lever g to the frame or part D, which
slides the slab of clay Fagainst the knife d, the same may be similarly connected to
the knife frame E, which effects the cutting of the clay into slabs F, see, dotted
lines, Fig. 2.
Each time the cutting of the slab F into bricks, takes place, the incline or cam a,
on the lever g raises the anti-friction bowl and ratchet pawl c which causes a
partial rotation to be imparted to the ratchet wheel 6', which latter then imparts the
rotation, in a reduced degree, to the pointers i, by means of the train of wheels f,
h, h³, 12, 13, 1, 4, thus registering the number of slabs cut, which when multiplied
with the number of bricks the slab has been cut into, gives the number of bricks
made by the machine.
It will be evident that the improvements, described, are also applicable for tile
making machines, as well as a brick machine.
Having particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do
not confine myself to the construction of the counter employed, but what I
claim is :-
"In brick or tilo machines'
1st. The general construction, combination and adaptions of parts, constituting
my improvements, substantially as set forth.
2nd. The method of accuating the counter G, which consists in imparting motion
thereto, by suitably forming a connection between the same and the frame or part D,
or knife frames Cor E, substantially as and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 17th day of July 1880
T. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.