Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics (1892)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 110
in either case. The main shaft, cam, andfriction roller are of steel, and the machines are built with proportionate strength through-out. In this machine, as in that last described, the clay is tempered and molded stiff enoughto allow immediate hacking of the brick. Fig. 5 represents a Penfield… … 96 BRICK-MACHINES. width, G ft. 6 in.: capacity, 40,000 bricks per 10 hours; estimated weight, 12.000 lbs.; speeduf pulley-shaft, about 145 revolutions per minute; pulleys, 42 in. diameter, 10 in. face; ma-chine is back-geared 43 to 1. By a cliange of die in this machine, all shapes and sizes of…
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