. Charles V. Mapes'. Agricultural machinery. C. V. MAPES' ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. 201 Fig. 372. This machine embraces a new principle in the art of tile and brick making, doing away with the use of the pug mill or mixing apparatus. The clay is received in the hopper represented on the top of the machine, and is caused to pass between the large center roller and the upper roller, impinging upon its periphery, and the clay is thus pressed into a thin sheet, which is received between the first and second outer rollers, then passing the second roller is again manipulated, and so on until it is deli
. Charles V. Mapes'. Agricultural machinery. C. V. MAPES' ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. 201 Fig. 372. This machine embraces a new principle in the art of tile and brick making, doing away with the use of the pug mill or mixing apparatus. The clay is received in the hopper represented on the top of the machine, and is caused to pass between the large center roller and the upper roller, impinging upon its periphery, and the clay is thus pressed into a thin sheet, which is received between the first and second outer rollers, then passing the second roller is again manipulated, and so on until it is delivered through the throat or mould in front in the perfect form of the mould required; all of which may be done with clay as it leaves the bank without admixture with water. The same facts apply to the brick made by this machine, aud the pressure exerted is so great as to give results more solid than when made by the ordinary machines. It may be moved by one or more horses' power; the amoimt of tile delivered depending upon the amount of force Fig. 373. Caryl's Patent Brick and Tile Machine. Fig. 373 is a recent invention, and capable of working clays of very indiiferent qualities; requires no mixing apparatus other than what is contained within itself. The clay is received in the hopper, and, by the action of an auger, is fully manip- ulated, and at the same time forced forward, while in this plastic state, through the throat of the machine and die, presenting a highly-finished perfect tile of any of the forms required. The apparatus for cutting oft' the tile or brick to the proper lengths is similar to that represented in Fig. 372. The machine is not subject to derange- ment, and is the simplest mode yet invented for availing of the whole amount of power in manipulating and pressing the clay, presenting the least possible amount of friction with the greatest pressure as a result. The brick made by this machine, unlike those pressed in moulds, is not hard at the surfa
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