Improvements in and relating to
Year: 1898

page_text: SAMUEL JOHN PEGG and SAMUEL ARTHUR PEGG, of Messrs. S. Pegg & Son,
Alexander Street, Leicester, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to improvements in and relating to brick making
machinery and has particular reference to a machine in which the mixed and prepared
olay is fed to rollers by which it is discharged through a die on to a cutting table,
the object of the present invention being improvements in the general arrangement
and construction of the machine.
According to this invention the mixed and prepared clay is delivered into a box or
trough fitted with two or more revolving shafts which are suitably driven and carried
by bearings outside the box or trough. These shafts are provided with knives, or
their equivalent, so placed that clay delivered to the box is moved forward by the
knives to a pair of compression rollers by which the clay is seized and forced con-
tinuously through one or more dies according to the size and capacity of the machine.
Dated this 7th day of June 1898.
W. H. POTTER,
Patent Agent, Nottingham.
Improvements in and relating to Brick Making Machinery.
SAMUEL JOHN PEGG and SAMUEL ARTHUR PEGG, of Messrs. S. Pegg & Son
Alexander Street, Leicester, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has reference to improvements in and relating to brick making
machinery, and has particular reference to a machine in which the mixed and pre-
pared clay is fed to rollers by which it is discharged through a die on to a cutting
table, the object of the present invention being improvements in the general
arrangement and construction of the machine.
According to this invention the mixed and prepared clay is delivered into a box or
trough fitted with two or more revolving shafts which are suitably driven and carried
by bearings outside the box or trough. These shafts are provided with knives or
their equivalent so placed that the clay delivered to the box is moved forward by the
knives to a pair of compression rollers by which the clay is seized and forced con-
tinuously through one or more dies according to the size and capacity of the
machine.

page_text: In the drawings which accompany this specification and are referred to in the
following detailed description of the machine.
Fig. I is a sectional elevation of the machine.
Fig 2 is a plan of the machine, and
Fig. 3 is a plan of a double mouth piece.
The clay, after being ground and mixed by any of the usual means, is delivered to
a box a which is suitable supported on standards b, c, and d. This box, at the end a¹,
is made with slots a² to allow of the shafts e and being placed in position, and the
slots are covered by a plate as to prevent the clay falling out. The shafts & and fare
carried by bearings d' and h¹ on the standards d and h respectively, but there are no
bearings for the shafts inside the box, and the whole space inside the box is clear for
the forward movement of the clay. The shafts are geared together by wheels e¹¹
and driven by any convenient arrangement of gearing. Inside the box a the shafts
are fitted with knives e, or their equivalent, so placed that when the shafts are
rotated the clay in the box is fed to rollers which are carried in bearings on stan-
dards b, c, geared together by wheels m, and driven by suitable mechanism. These
rollers seize the clay pressed up to them by the knives and force it through the
mouth piece n on to the cutting table.
In Fig. 3 a mouth piece n with two outlets n is shown. When this is used the
size of the rollers and there speed of rotation is arranged to deliver two continuous
pieces of clay on to two cutting tables, which are placed at an angle to allow of the
outting mechanism being suitably arranged.
In a modification the shafta e and fare fitted with knives at both ends and there
are two separate boxes and connected parts, but the bearings for the shafts are out-
side the boxes.
After the clay is delivered to the cutting table, it is divided and treated in the
usual way.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim 18:-
1. The improvements in the arrangement and construction of brick machinery
substantially as herein described with reference to the accompany drawings.
Datai tuo
V440
W. H. POTTER,
Brougham Chambers, Nottingham.
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