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 111
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… … ^.. Fig. .5.—The PenfieUl plunj^er brick-macliine. a novel and important feature. The back or forming die receives and forms a bir of claywith rounded corners. The clay bar then passes through the finishing die, which is slightlysquare-cornored. and by means of this slicker and the process of…
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