IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRICKS, PIPES, AND. TILES
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Williams, of Bedford, Ironfounder, for the
Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRICKS, PIPES, AND.
TILES,"
Şealed the 8th January 1856, and dated the 11th July 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Williams at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th July 1855.
I, WILLIAM WILLIAMS, of Bedford, Ironfounder, do hereby declare the
nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRICKS,
PIPES, AND TILES," to be as follows:-
According to my Invention I make socket pipes of clay by causing a mould
of the form of the interior of the socket to be pressed up against the button of
the die plate, when the clay commences to be expressed by the motion of the
piston, so that the tube in coming out through the die plate comes against this
mould, and is expanded to the form of the interior of the socket; and the
exterior form of the socket is given by a projection of a suitable form from
the face of the die plate; and I give motion to the pistons of brick, pipe, and
tile machines by means of a cam or excentric on the main axis, which acts
on rollers or trucks on the backs of the pistons.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Williams in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
11th January 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
WILLIAMS, of Bedford, Ironfounder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Williams, Her special licence that I, the said William Williams, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Williams, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF BRICKS, PIPES, AND TILES," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said William Williams, iny executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and inme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Williams, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
According to my Invention I make socket pipes of clay by causing a mould
of the form of the interior of the socket to be pressed up against the button of
the die plate, when the clay commences to be expressed by the motion of the
piston, so that the tube on coming out through the die plate comes against this
mould, and is expanded to the form of the interior of the socket; and the
exterior form of the socket is given by a projection of a suitable form from
the face of the die plate; and I give motion to the pistons of brick, pipe, and
tile machines by means of a cam or eccentric on the main axis, which acts
on rollers or trucks on the backs of the pistons..
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and

page_text: Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of part of a machine for making socket
pipes. a is the clay cylinder; b is the die plate; is the button of the die
plate, all of an ordinary description. d is a mould, bolted to, or it may be
formed on the face of, the die plate; this mould gives the form to the exterior
of the socket. e is a form or mould to shape the interior of the socket, and
which slides between guides f, f.
When a
The pipes are made in the following manner: The mould e is pressed by
hand or otherwise against the button c of the die plate, and the machinery is
put in motion to express the clay through the die plate. When the socket
mould is filled, the pressure is withdrawn from the mould e, and as the pipe is
formed, it descends down the guides still remaining in the socket.
sufficient length of pipe has been formed, the expressing machinery is stopped,
and the pipe is cut off and is carried away on the mould e, which escapes from
the guides f, f, by notches formed in them. The mould is afterwards removed
from the pipe, and is brought back to the machine to make another pipe.
Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of part of a machine, showing my
improved method of giving motion to the pistons of brick, pipe, and tile
machines. 9 is the main axis, on which is keyed the eccentric h, which gives
motion to the pistons i, i, which are connected together on both sides by
frames, one of which is shewn at k in the Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Williams, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Ninth day of January, One thousand eight hundred
and fifty cir
Witness,
GEORGE BROOK PRICE, Ironmonger,
High Street, Bedford.
WILLIAM WILLIAMS. (L.S.)