US229143A - Tile and brick machine - Google Patents

Description

P HfKELLs. Tile and Brick- Machine.

Patented June 22,1880.

U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PHILIP H. KELLS, or ADRIAN, MICHIGAN.

TILE AND BRICK MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 229,143, dated June 22,1880.

' Application filed January 8, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP H. KELLs, of Adrian, in the county of Lenawee and State of Michigan, have invented an Improvement in Tile and Brick Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The nature of my invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in tile and brick machines, and it is designed to be an improvement upon such a machine as was patented to me May 23, 187 6, in Letters Patent No. 177,851; and the invention consists in improvements in the machine described in said Letters Patent, as hereinafter more fully set fortl1,and pointed outin the claims.

In the drawings, I igure 1 is a top plan with parts broken out to show the arrangement of parts. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the front end of the machine with the delivery nozzle or head removed. Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective of the device for cutting the tile into desired lengths. Fig. 4 is a detached view of a section of the main shaft and the knife and sleeve upon said shaft and nearest the rear end of the machine.

In the accompanying-drawings, which form a part of this specification, A represents a transverse beam or plate resting upon standards (not shown) and provided with a pillowblock, a, within which and the box b on another transverse beam, B, which forms the top of that part of the frame which supports the outer end of the main shaft and main drivingtioned patent the end-thrust of the main shaft was provided for by a fixed collar thereon fitting in the recess prepared for it in the plate F. As this collar is rendered unnecessary in I the present construction, I prevent the clay from Workin g into the box I) by a peculiar construction of the blade-carrying collar G, which differs from the rest in being provided with an offset annular flange, i, which fits into the recess in the plate I, originally formed to receive the collar above referred to.

The main shaft is provided with a collar, 70, adjustablysecured by the setscrew l, and this, with the flange con the pedestal of the box a, prevents any lateral motion of the shaft when in place. The beams or plates A B are adjustably secured together by the threaded bolts m, each of which is provided with a not outside and another inside the said beams, so that they may be adjusted to the proper distances apart to correspond with the length of the main shaft. That portion of the main shaft in front of the beam B, and which carries the blades, is inclosed within a casing, H, which is supported by and between the standard of the beam B and a standard, I, which also supports the mouth or delivery end of the shell or casing. A hopper, K, opens into this oasin g, through which the clay to be operated upon enters the casing. A mouth-piece, L, is supported upon the standard I, and bolts a secure this mouth-piece and the casing or shell and the rear end of the machine together. Slots 0 are cut opposite each other in the front of this mouth-piece to receive the bar 19, to the center of which is secured the core r. A cap, M, is bolted to the front of the mouth-piece, and this holds the bar and core in place. A

nose-plate or delivery-nozzle, N, is bolted to the front of the cap. To prevent error, I call that end of the machine where the motion is communicated to the main shaft the rear,

and that end where the product of the machinev is discharged the front.

0 are lugs cast upon the front of the standard I, through which pass the set-screws s, which also pass through or into the ends of the frame P, thereby securing the frame and standard together and providing a vertical adj ustability to the former. J ournaled in this frame are the flanged rollers t, for the support of the cutting-frame Q, which is free to move longitudinally, so that it may partake of the movement of the clay while resting upon it for the cutting of the tile into suitable lengths, as hereinafter described. This frame Q, has a shaft, a, centrally and longitudinally journaled through its ends, and by means of the too hub '21 and arm or spoke to the rim R of a wheel is secured to said shaft rigidly. An arm, 00, rigidly secured to the outer end of this shaft, supports a hand-bar, S, the opposite end of which is secured to the rim R, as shown in Fig. 3. A bar, T, has rigidly secured to it three rods, a, a and a which pass loosely through the side pieces of the frame Q. To the rods a and a are rigidly secured the vertical plates at, and to the rods-a are secured the collars a between which and the inner sides of the frame Q, the coil-springs a are sleeved upon said rod. The rod a carries upon its free end a friction-roller, a the rod being bent at right angles, as shown, to form a journal for said roller.

Upon the face of the rim B there is cast or otherwise secured a cam-flange, a, rounded outwardly at one end, a, and rounded inwardly at the other end, (0 to compel the cam-flange, as the rim is partially rotated, to travel on the outside of said roller and to travel on the inside of said roller when the motion of the rim is reversed. One or more wires, a, are stretched from the shaft to to the hand-bar S, and secured in any desired manner.

The parts being constructed and arranged as hereinbefore'described, and motion being given to the main shaft 1), clay is delivered into the casing through the hopper K, where it is subjected to the action of the spiral blades, which are kept at suitable distances apart by thilnbles I), which are sleeved on the shaft between each pair of the blade-carryin g collars. The continued motion of the spiral blades forces the clay out through the delivery-nozzle, the core forming the bore of the tile as the clay passes. As the tile passes through the nozzle in a continuous ribbon, it is received upon the frame Q, which travels in the same direction. When a sufficient length of tile has been projected the operator partially rotates the rim by means of the hand-bar to the right orleft, when the cam-flange withdraws or pro jects the bar T, thereby alternately projecting or retracting the vertical plates a to hold the tile against lateral motion while the wire a is cutting it off.

What I claim as my invention is 1. In a tile or brick machine, the combination, with the main shaft D, provided with a longitudinal groove, 6, of a series of collars, E, sleeved on the main shaft, and each provided with a feather, h, and spiral blade d, and

the thimble b, sleeved on the main shaft between the collars, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a tile or brick machine, and in combination with the main shaft D thereof and with the recesst' in the plate F upon the front of the beam B, the collar G, carrying a spiral blade, 01, and provided with an offset annular flange, t, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination, with the core 1", supported by the bar 1), of the recessed mouthpiece L and angular caps M, bolted to the mouth-piece and recessed in the delivery-nozzle N, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

4. The combination, with the reciprocating cutter-frame Q, carrying the rock-shaft u, with wire a", of the rim R, provided with cam on and spoke w, bar T, rods to a a and vertical plates a, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

5. In combination with the cutter-carrying frame P of a tile or brick machine, the cutterframe Q, adapted to have a longitudinal reciprocatin g motion and provided with a centrallyjournaled shaft, u, to which the rim R of a wheelis attached by means of the hub o and arm or spoke to, and provided with a cam, a, the bar T, the rods a a? a the vertical plates a, collars a springs a and friction-roller a for the purpose, as said rim is oscillated to the right or left, of giving a similar motion to the vertical plates a, to hold the tile against the lateral pressure of the wire a", which is stretched between the hand bar S and the shaft u when said wire is cutting the tile or brick, substantially as described.

PHILIP H. KELLS.

Witnesses:

W. STEARNS, E. J. SMITH.

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