The Practical Brick and Tile Book Volume 1; Comprising I.-A Rudimentary Treatise on Brick and Tile Making

by Ed Dobson

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 ...by Whitehead, of Preston, for pressing one end of the cylinder so cut off to a given length, as at A, into the socket form, as at B, fig. 19, so that the lengths shall go together with spigot and faucet joints. Dies of various forms, prepared to adapt to any of the brick or tile machinery, are supplied by the makers, by which almost any form (solid or hollow, tubular or multitubular, i.e., perforated like "perforated brick"), that can be produced by the advance of a given section parallel to itself, may be formed. The figures in Fig. 7 show a few of the more usually employed sections--those at the right being drain-pipes, those in the middle for building purposes, and the left-hand ones for roofing use. In addition to the machines for brick and tile making, which we have thus pretty copiously illustrated, there are other machines almost innumerable for making special forms in plastic or in dry clay, referable to the great family of bricks and tiles. A great tribe of these machines, to which our space forbids our making any allusion, is employed in Great Britain and abroad in the manufacture of encaustic, or inlaid, or intaglio tiles for flooring and other architectural purposes. Those who desire still more complete or enlarged information on the subject of this class of machinery should consult the Practical Mechanic's Journal Record of the Exhibition of 1862, Mr. D. K Clarke's "Exhibited Machinery of 1862," the.Reports of the Juries of Exhibition, 1862, and the volume of Abridgments of Patents, relating to drain tiles and pipes, bricks, tiles, and pottery, issued by the Patent Office, extending from 1619 to 1861. There have been many patents since that date, and many descriptions of machines of more or less value are also to be found sc...

108 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2012