US1544819A - Apparatus for handling and transporting brick and the like - Google Patents

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July 7, 1925. 1,544,819

W W. DlCKlNSON, JR

APPARATUS FOR HANDLING AND TRANSPORTING BRICK AND THE LIKE Filed March 20, 1918 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 lllllllllllllllllll Jul 7, 1925'. 1,544,819

W. W. DICKINSON, JR

' .APPARATUS FOR HANDLING AND-TRANSPORTING BRICK AND THE LIKE Filed March 20, 1918 3 Sheets-Sheet V 2 July 7, 1925.

' 1,544,819 W. W. DICKINSON, JR

APPARATUS FOR HANDLING AND TRANSPORTING' BRICK AND THE LIKE Filed March 20 1918 5 Sheets-Sheet 5 Transporting whereby they are Iatented July 7, 1925.

. Pulaski and State of Arkansas,

by unburned bricks can be collegted UNITED STATES 1,544,819 PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM WALLACE DICKINSON,

AMERICAN EQUIPMENT COMPANY, orno.

JR; OF. LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, ASSIGNOR TO THE 01 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A'CORPORATION 0F APPARATUS FOR HANDLING AND TRANSPORTING BRICK AND THE LIKE.

Application filed March 20, 1918. Serial No. 223,555.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that WILLIAM. WALLACE DICKINSON, J r., citizen of the United States, residing at Little Rock, in the county of have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Ap%aratus for Handling and rick and the like, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to the manufacture of brick and has for its general object to improve the methods and appliances for handling the bricks at any time between their/delivery by the brick machine and the time when tlfey are set upon the conveyance transported to the user. the object of this invena device wheretogether and set upon the kiln in predetermined spaced relation although numerous other objects and advantages are present.

This invention relates particularly to the More particularly tion concerns the provision of making of common brick in which the yalue of the product is comparatively small, the output necessarily large, and the largest single expense is that of labor. Heretofore the bricks delivered from a brick machine, either of the soft-mud or stiff-mud type,

have ordinarily been placed by hand upon upon the solidity Q then transported suitable pallets or drying cars (depending and stiffness of the bricks) either to a drying house,

v kiln shed, and finally set by. hand upon the kiln, either directly or after various intermediate handlings with wheelbarrows. This procedure has been modified only ,by the peculiar characteristics of different clays; for some clays can be pressed into bricks of such stiffness as to permit their immediate building into burning kilns, provided that not too many courses be laid in one day; other clays, while stiff enough to bear the weight of two or three courses on a pallet, have to be inserted "in a drying oven for a few days before placing upon the kiln; some clays, while they might be sufficiently stifi' immediately upon pressing to set into a kiln, are necessarily dried for a time before burning in order to prevent their becoming warped, bulged, and broken by the heat; and others have to be inserted in single drving shed, or

layers into drying ovens, or laid on racks in the open airfor a time before they can be handled at all. In all cases, however, a great deal of manual handling has been necessary,

while drying cars, handling apparatus, and

the like devices, in the few instances where they have been used, have been extremely expensive, and generally complicated and unreliable.

The objects of the present invention are the provision of a means and method for receiving the bricks directly from a conveying mechanism such as a conveying belt, and

setting the same mechanically in their final position upon the kiln or other device, together with all intermediate steps which may be necessary, without the necessity of touching the hand thereto; the provision of a new and improved type and construction of pallet for receiving, for drying, for delivermg the unburned brick; the provision of a new and improved means and method for delivering the bricks to the pallet; the provision of new and improved expedients for discharging the pallets; the provision ofnew and improved means for setting the brick on the kiln in separated relation; the provision of new and improved means for placing the bricks upon the pallets; the provision of new and improved means for transporting and handling the pallets;

while further objects and advantages of my said invention will become apparent as the description proceeds.

, In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this application I have shown one of the many operative forms in which my invention may be embodied; and while the present application will illustrate and describe the preferred construction of the pallet and its adjuncts, together with means of loading and discharging the same and my improved method of buildin a kiln therefrom, the claims will be con ned more specifically to the means for loading and transporting said pallet, reserving the other matters for a subsequent application or applications. In these drawings Fig. 1 is a diagrammatic view of my improved system; Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic view showing the method of discharging the bricks from the pallet; Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the conveyor illustrated in Fig. 1 showing a pallet thereon; Fig. 4 is a sectional View on the line 4-4 of Figs. 5 and 6 showing the method of loading the bricks; Fig. '5

represents a side elevation and Fig. 6 a top lan view of the parts illustrated 1n Fig. 4;; Fig. 7 is a detail view showing the construction andmode of loading the pallet; Fig. 8

is a top plan view of a portion of the pallet showing the preferred arrangement of bricks thereon; Fig. 9 isa sectional view on the line 9-9 of Fig. 10, and Fig. 10 a similar view on the line 10--10 of Fig. 9, illus trating the construction of the control-box shown in Fig. 4; Figs. 11 and 12 represent cross-sectional views upon the lines 11'11' and 12-12 respectively of Fig. 5- Fig. 13 illustrates a modified arrangement for transporting and inclining the pallets; and Fig.

is a bottom plan view of one end of the car shown in Fig. 13.

Describing the drawings with regard to the reference characters thereon A represents a conveying belt, B a dry house andC a kiln-shed or kiln-yard. D represents a traveling conveyor system, of any convenient or suitable type such as a rope conveyor or small railway which passes by the said conveyor belt, and thence to wherever the bricks are to be transported. In the present embodiment I have shown the same as passing both into the dry-house and kiln-shed, and have shown the conveying belt as sup- I plied with unburned bricks directly from a brick machinealthough it will be under- .stood that this belt can equally well come from a dry-house, drying-yard, burningshed or storage warehouse; thatthe bricks handled thereby can be either burned or un-'" burned;-and that they can be placed on the belt either automatically or by hand. The.

brick machine here shown is of the stiffmud type, comprising a suitable chamber E,

from which is extruded a continuous bar of.

stiff clay, shown at F and conveyed by means of an endless belt G. At H this bar is severed by means of a suitable cutting device into units or bricks I. each of the desired length, which are caught and car-;

ried away upon the conveying belt A which moves at a higher speed than the first belt so that the bricks are separated. Furthermore, in the present embodiment I have il lustrated these bricks as coming away in.

pairs (see Fig. 6) as is now frequently the case on such machines; although it will be understood that my invention is not limited to the type of brick machine, or to the number or arrangement of the bricks delivered thereby, or even to the origin of those bricks at a brick machine, or to their delivery by a. belt conveyor, since the origin of the bricksv so far as my present invention is concerned,

is the belt A or other conveyor upon which they are in some manner placed and fromwhich they are to be collected.

The type of drying shed here shown is struct andarrange them as illustrated, de-,

scribed, and claimed in my cop'endin pp cation filed March-'18, 1918, Serial 026 now Patent No. 1,305,447, and dated,

June 3rd,.1919. I also prefer to make them .rectangular, and of a sizecommensurable with the pallet,: but this is not imperative be explained.

.The-conveyorD shown in-Figsih to 12 inclusive, comprisesessentially 'a pair of parallel cables K.K-supported 'onsuitable rollers L'L mounted on'supports or trestles M, and moving in the same direction at thesame speed, the return sides of the'ca-i .85 and can be diverged from as will hereafter bles being shown at N, and carried by other.

suitable pulleys or rollers 0. At each curve or bend the cables preferably pass around pulleys PP while the pallets are received upon suitable rollers R-R, the outer rollers being largerthan the inner ones, so as to 1 0' to swing evenly therearound. These things "are described merely for completeness and for convenience of reference, but no one specific structure thereof isimperative to.

bank the curve and cause the trays or pallets my IIIVGIltlOIL.

My improved fiat, rectangular with spaced transverse strips defining brick receiving channels, the length and width of the pallets being suflicient to hold the'desired number of bricks. Preferably, in case the pallet is to be used in kiln building, its

length is equalto the width of the body of the kiln which is to be built therefrom, in the present embodiment shown as thirty feet; while its width depends upon the width pallet comprises a large; tray, preferably provided 4 of the tramway or rope conveyor and upon the width of the passageways through which the same must pass. In the present embodiment I have chosen a width between the cables of six feet and the total width of the pallet at eight feet, thereby holdingv ten bricks of ordinary size arranged end to end Said pallets preferably comprise a pair of longitudinal wood stringers 1-1 upon which are secured transverse planks 2, surmounted bythe thin steel plate 3 which covers the whole device, and upon the top ofwhich are screwed or bolted the transverse strips or,

cleats 44. These strips-are spaced apart are delivered singly as in a distance necessary to receive whatever number of bricks are to bedelivered between them. In the present case, wherein the bricks are delivered in pairs, the same are spaced 'in pairs, although if the bricks the case of some machines they will be spaced more narrowly, and if larger numbers are delivered together spacing will be increased. In the embodiment here shown the pallet presents seventy grooves so that the load for this pallet is fourteen hundred bricks.

Where the pallet is arranged for the purpose of building a kiln, as is the case here, the width of the strips is such as to afford the desired lateral spacing of the bricks in that kiln. In case the pallet is to be used for the purpose of loading or transferring or piling burned brick, wherein compact arrangement is desirable, the strips are made narrower or other guiding means employed.

In some cases other guiding means can be employed, for example one or more strips not carried by the pallet. In a case where the pallet is used to transport and pile previously burned brick for example, or other articles, the strips and grooves are not so important as when bricks are to be set in an accurate relation as in kiln building.

In order to load the pallets with brick arrayed in ranked relation, I provide means whereby the pallets as they approach the conveyor belt are inclined to such an angle as shall cause the bricks to. slide gently from top to bottom thereof, and also provide such mechanism that the same may be advanced in a step by step manner as the spaces or ranks become filled; after which the pallets are automatically lowered again to a horizontal position and carried away in any convenient manner. In the embodiment of my invention shown in Figs. 4, 5, 6, 12 and 13, I effect this inclination by means of two additional cables which traverse the end of the'belt A. These cables rep-resented at 10 and 11 respectively, pass first around rollers 1212 below and preferably between the cables KK, and then rise gradually and uniformly above the first cables, the cable 10 which is further from the belt A being elevated only a short distance by means of its rollers 13-13, and the cable 11 being elevated a much further distance by means of rollers 14 14. The cables 10 and 11 are preferably so located as to engage in the angle between the stringers 11 and the cross members 22 of the pallet so as to prevent any possi-- ble side-slip.

While not imperative it is desirable that the advancing movement of the pallet should be so timed relatively to the movement of the conveying belt A as to occur between the arrival of successive bricks. One method of driving the cables and feed ing the pallet is illustrated in Fig. 4 wherein 15 represents the main drive shaft, to which is geared the cut-off mechanism H, (or other brick mechanism), a-ndwhich also preferably drives the conveyor belt A by a suitable gearing and countershafting as indicated generally at 16. .The shaft l5 may, if desired, be connected to the cable KK in driving (or driven) v relation, as by the counter-shaft 17 geared to the horizontal shaft 18 which carries cable-engaging pulleys indicated generally at 19.

For operating the pallet I have shown a shaft section 20, connected to suitable pulleys indicated generally at 21, 21, so as to drive the same at equal speed. It will be understood that the pulleys 19 and 21 are merely indicated conventionally and that in practice a more complicated and positive arrangement is used.

I have shown an arrangement wherein a half turn of the shaft section 20 is sufficient to advance the pallet one step, and wherein this half turn occurs at a given point in the movement of the belt A. Numerous expedients canbe employed for effecting this result, the simplest which has yet occurred to me being that shown in Figs. 9 and 10, wherein 25 represents a sleeve rigidly keyed to the end of the shaft 15, and loosely receiving the shaft section 20. Formed in the outer surface of the last'named member is 1 a semi-circular longitudinal groove 26 in which is rockably mounted the member 27, formed at one end with the radial finger 28. The outer surface of the member 27 is rounded so as to conform to the surface of the shaft 20, while the interior of the sleeve 25 is formed at one oint with a longitudinal slot 29. A suitable spring 30 tends to rock the finger 28, but its engagement withthe lever 31 pivoted in, the casing 32 normally prevents such rocking. However, if at any time the lever 31 be displaced, the effect of the spring 30 is to rock the member 27 into engagement with driving relation. As soon, however, as the sleeve has made one revolution, the finger 28 is arrested by contact with the lever 31, thus disengaging the parts; the positions of the various parts are so chosen that the rotation referred to will occur only during the interval between the delivery of successive bricks. The particular clutch here described is not a part of my invention, nor is the use of this particular device essential to the performance of my invention, but I describe the same solely as being one type of operative element which may be employed in my combination.

In order to assure the discharge of the bricks or other articles at the proper point order to prevent the bricks from sliding off the pallet at its lower end, any-one of numerous means'may be employed, such as an endless belt 40 carried by suitable rollers 41. No articular expedient is necessary to drive t is belt, since the friction of the pallet is sufiicientto efl'ect this. This belt needs to extend only from the point opposite the conveying belt A to a point where the pallet has been lowered sufliciently toward horizontal to avoid the danger of the bricks sliding ofi'.

It is obvious that the approach and re treat of the pallet from the inclined position must be gradual, particularly the latter. The cables KK bemg driven continuously and the cables 10 and 11 only intermittently it will be seen that additional pallets will be brought up to the elevating cables with sufficient rapidity so that an empt pallet wlll always be at hand to render t e operation continuous. Similarly, as soon as the filled pallets are delivered from the elevating cables on to the conveying cables, they will be moved agvay rapidly and uniformly to the point of use.

Assuming the clay to be of such nature that the bricks can be put into kilns immediately u on pressing, the palletis conveyed direct y to the klln shed, where it is caught up by a traveling crane, transported to the kiln which is being built, s otted to theexact position desired, inclined rom side to side to an amount necessary tocause the bricks to slide, and then drawn slowly;backwardly so that the bricks may be discharged therefrom as shown inFig. 2. The inter- 7 action of the bricks caused by their length N and hei ht causes them to be deposited in 'longitu inally separated relation as shown in Fig. 2, so that no hand-work whatever is required to be done thereon; while the crosswise arrangement of alternate layers or courses is provided by applying the pallets to the kiln first in the one direction and then in a direction transverse thereto. This .last can 'easil be done, either by providing the crane'wit a turn-table whereby the pallets can be rotated in mid-air, or by picking up the pallets on one or the other side of a right angle turnmade by the transporting device.

The crane shown is of the usual rectilinear type, comprising a rectangular frame 50 running by means of wheels 51-51 upon a pair of longitudinal rails 52-52 and itself carryin a transversely movable platform 53, havmg wheels 54 running'upon the side -*members of the frame. Mounted" upon the carriage 53 is the turn-table-55, operated by:

" a-motor 55, and carried'by the turn-table are a pair of hoisting drums 57 and 58, the former of which is connected by a fall 59 to guides as shown at 38. .In.

thebalancing oint of the carrier 60, and the latter of w ich is connected by a fall 61 with the rearward part of the carrier. The carrier consists of' a rigid frame having a plurality of parallel horizontal arms 62 adaptedto receive one of the pallets thereon, said frame being connected to the falls in such manner that any desired inclination can be imparted to the pallets. To discharge a pallet, the crane is spotted over the exact point that it is desired to deposit the bricks after which the fall 59 is lowered and the fall 61 raised so as to elevate the rearward end of the carrier to a degree suflicient to cause the bricks to slip; thereupon the crane is set in motion so as to withdraw the pallet from beneath the bricks which are thereby deposited smoothly, easily, and in correct position as shown In Fi 2.

The first brick of each rank is preferably located in its desired place by means of a suitable stop such as the plank 65, which may be held by workmen until the deposition of the bricks has started. The casing or outer wall of'the kiln is built up by hand after the middle art has been laid. Any number of bricks ess than the whole capacity of the pallet can be laid at one time if desired. It is merely necessary, when the desired number have been set down, to elevate the cable 59 and lower the cable 61; similarly, it is possible to lay a small number in the opposite directlon if desired, either by filling only part of the spaces on the pallet or by holdmg certain ranks of bricks against discharge therefrom. It Is easy in this way to build any sort of irregular structure which may be required, such as to lay the lower part of the kiln where the arches are located, or to deposit bricks around the exterior of the kiln to be built by hand into the outer wall thereof as heretofore explained, or load a wagon, car.

tofore described. At B in these drawings I have shown a suitable dry house comprising longitudinal racks 71 and transverse racks 72, each consisting of a plurality of vertically spaced bracketsadapted to receive the pallets and holdthem While the bricks thereon are drying. The conveying device "preferably makes a right angle turn inside or at least near this (1 ing house for the same reason as in the kiln, namely to permit' pallets to be picked up in either position, and transferred to the correspondingly ment the dry-house and the kiln-shed are arranged close together so that the same crane can transfer the pallets from the conveyor D either to the brackets or to the kiln, or from the.brackets to the kiln. My improved pallet is much cheaper to construct, longer in life, and more easily handled than the dry cars new ordinarily used, whereof it is entirely practical to use it in this manner.

In Fig. 13 I have shown a modified arrangement for conveying the said pallets which in some ways is simpler than thatheretofore illustrated although dependent upon the same identical principle. In this embodiment the pallet, indicated generally at 2, is carried upon the top 75 of a suitable truck having car wheels 76 running upon.

rails 77. The pallets are raised to their inclined position (shown in the dotted lines), by means of rollers 78 spaced in the same way as the rollers 14 shown in Figs. 5 and 6, the opposite side of the car being pro-' vided with a wall or side 79 adapted to prevent the overshooting of the bricks, The step by step movement of the car during loading is effected in any suitable way, such as by means of a rack 80 meshing with a suitable pinion 80 which takes the place of the rollers 21, 21 shown in Fig. 4. At other times these cars are propelled along their track in any manner such as by a cable 81 connected to the car by grips in such wise,

for example, that it will be relieved either when the pallet 2 is elevated, or when the car comesinto contact with the car ahead. This is easily effected by having one side of the grip, as 82, pivoted on a horizontal axis and provided with an arm 83 adapted to be depressed when the pallet rests thereon but to release the cable when the same is raised either by the roller 78 or by the crane. The other side of the grip, as 84, is pivoted upon a vertical axis and connected to a bumper 85 so as to release the cable when the car comes into contact with the car ahead.

The belt A may derive its bricks either from a brick machine or from any other source, and the same may be either burned or unburned, and placed thereon either manually or automatically. The pallets may be filled either by the means and method here shown or in any other way, for example manually; for in many cases it would be highly advantageous to employ such a pallet solely for the facility in transporting and discharging the bricks in the desired relation, eventhough placed thereon by hand.

The pallets may e used either for building for setting other structures, for piling burned bricks on conveyances or in storage, or they may be used solely for drfying purposes. The various embodiments o the invention herein shown have been selected and described as illustrative only and not as kilns, or

limiting in any degree. Wherefore it will ployed can be varied very widely without departing from my inventive idea, which is limited only by the prior! art and by the terms of the annexed claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. In a device of the character described, the combination with a conveying belt, of transporting mechanism extending past said belt, trays or pallets carried by said mechanism and movable thereby in a direction parallel to the plane of said belt, and means for inclining said pallets during the period of their passage by said belt, whereby they may become filled with the articles delivered by said belt. I

2. The'combination with a. conveying belt, of transporting mechanism traversing said belt, pallets carried by said mechanism, means for inclining each pallet during the period of its passage bysaid belt, whereby it may become filled with the articles deoverrunning of said articles.

3. In a device of the character described, the combination with a conveying belt, of transporting mechanism extending past said belt, trays or pallets carried by said mechanism, means for inclining said pallets during their passage by said belt and presenting their edges to such belt so as to receive and become filled with the articles delivered thereby, and means thereafter restoring said pallets to horizontal position.

4. The combination with a conveying belt, of transporting mechanism traversing said belt, pallets carried by said mechanism and movable thereby in a direction parallel to the plane of said belt, means for removing said pallets from said transporting mechanism upon their arrival near said belt and for inclining them in a direction away from said belt, means for presenting the inclined pallets to said belt so as to receive the articles delivered thereby, and means for thereafter restoring said pallets to a substantially horizontal position and delivering them to said transporting mechanism.

5. In a device of the character described, the combination with a conveying belt, of transporting mechanism extending past said belt, trays or pallets carried by said mechanism, means for incliningsaid pallet as it approaches said belt, means for restorin said pallet to an approximately horizonta position after passing said belt, and means for advancing said pallet in step b step manner during its passage past sai belt, whereby it may receive articles therefrom in rde ed ranks.-

6. In a device of the character described, the combination with a conveying belt, of transporting mechanism extending ast said belt, trays or pallets carried b sai mechanism, means for inclinin sai pallets during their passage by sai belt and presenting their edges to such'belt, means for advancing said pallet: in step by stepmanner during its passage ast said belt so as to become filled with t e'articles trans orted thereby, and means for causing the a vancing movement to said pallet to take place during the interval between the arrival of successive articles upon said belt.

7. In a device of the character described, the combination with a conveying belt, of means opposite the end of said belt for supporting a pallet, a pallet on said supportin means, and mechanism for advancing sai pallet in step by ste manner 'whereb it may be filled with or erly ranks of articles dellvered b said belt. l,

8. In a evice of the character described the combination with a conveying belt, of means opposite the end of said belt for'supporting a (pallet in inclined position, a pa et on sai means and-inclined awa from said belt, the upper edge of said pa et being presented to said belt in receiving relation, and means for advancing said pallet past said belt in a step by step manner.

for articles of a carrying device havin parallel grooves of a width to receive suc articles, means for supportin said device with its ed e in receiving positlon relatively to the said belt and its grooved portion inclined away from said ed'e, means for guiding the articles delivere by said belt, and means for advancing said device intermittently by steps commensurable with the distance between adjacent grooves and for I stopping the same so that said grooves. will reglster with the articles delivered.

10. In brick machinery, the combination with means for delivering brick successively, of a pallet-transporting device traversing said means, pallets on sald device, means for inclining each pallet during its :passage b said first means to an angle such that the ricks will slide gently upon the surface thereof, means for advancing the pallets in a step by step manner while so inclined, and means for guiding the bricks in their motion across said allet.

11. In brick machinery, t e combination with a conveyling device for bricks, of a pallet, a pa et-transporting device adacent to said device, means for inclining said pallet during its pass by said device to an angle such that the ricks will slide gently upon the surface ther of, means for advancingthe pellet in a etc by step manner while so inclined, means or guiding the bricks in their motion across said pallet,

' device for bricks,

and means separate from said pallet but movable therewith at its lower edge for preventing the overrunning of said bricks.

12. In r with a conveying device for bricks, of a arranged to support a pa let clined, away from said devi its upper edge in receiving relationrelatively to said device, means for advancing the pallets, means for guiding said bricks upon said device, and means in alignment with said first means for guiding said bricks in their movement across the pallets.

13. In brick machinery, the combination with a conveying device for bricks, of a pallet-support traversing said device, and arranged to support a pallet in a position nclined away from said device but having its upper edge in receiving relation relatively to said device, means for advancing the pallets, means for guiding said bricks upon said device and across the said pallets,

upon which the bricks can rest and be sup- 9. The combinat on with a conveymg beltported, of a conveying belt for bricks, means for movin said carrying device laterally past the be t in an intermittent manner whereby said channels may become filled with bricks in ranked relation, and means for thereafter removing said carrying device from said belt by continuous movement.

15. In brick handling apparatus, the combination with transportlng mechanism ick machinery, the combination whereby pallets can be moved from point to point in horizontal position, a conveying means for transferring said bricks from said device to said pallet in ranked relation, means for thereafter removing said pallet bodily from said transporting means, and means for thereafter inchning said allet and moving it horizontally where y the bricks can be discharged therefrom in orderly relation.

16. In brick handling apparatus, the combination with transporting mechanism whereby pallets can be moved from point to oint in horizontal position, a conveying evice for bricks, and means for presenting such pallets to said device in inclined position to receive said bricks from said device in ranked relation, means for restoring said pallets to horizontal position and for transporting them elsewhere, and means for in,- clining said pallets and simultaneously movin them laterally so as to discharge the bucks therefrom.

17 In brick handling apparatus, the comfor transporting that bination with a carrying device, of means device from point to point in a substantially horizontal position, a conveying device adapted and arranged for delivery of bricks in succession, means for presenting said carrying device to said conveying device so as to receive in ranked formation the bricks delivered thereby, means for thereafter removing said carr ing device bodily from said transporting means together with the bricks thereon, and means for thereafter discharging the bricks from said carrying device simultaneously .in a predetermined piled relation.

18. In brick-handling machinery, in combination, a conveying device for delivering bricks successively, a pallet, a pallet-transporting means traversing said device and arranged normally to convey said pallet in substantially horizontal position, means operative upon the approach of said pallet to said device for inclining the same and presenting the same to said device in such manner that the bricks delivered from the device will slide upon and across said pallet, means for advancing said pallet in step by step manner during its presentation to said device, means located at the further side of said pallet for preventing the overrunning ofthe bricks, means operative after the pallet has passed by said device for restoring the same to its horizontal position, and means for thereafter removing said pallet bodily from the transporting means with all the bricks thereon.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto affix my signature.

WILLIAM WALLACE DICKINSON, Jr.

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