US72847A

US72847A - Eliphaiibt hall

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Publication number: US72847A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1867-12-31
Anticipated expiration: 1884-12-31

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PATENTED DEC 3l 1867 @nitro tatre atwt @Hire ELIPllALE'l HALL, OF DUNNAMORA, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 72,847, dated December 3l, 1867.

'IMPROVBD PBATAND BRICK-Muslime.

TO.ALIL WI-IOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, ELIPHALET HALL, of Dunnamora, in the county of Clinton, and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Press or Machine for Making Peat or Clay into Blocks or Bricks; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in whichi I Figure 1, plate 1, is a plan or top view of the machine. i

Figure 2, plate 1, a view in detail.

Figure 3, plate 2, an elevation orview of the front side of the machine, and

Figure 4 ,a View or elevation of one-end to the same.

A, in the drawings, represents a wheel, secured by horizontal arms B to a centre rod or shaft, C, arranged to turn in bearings ofthe framework D to the machine. This wheel A, at and around its periphery, is 'divided into a series of moulds, E, of uniform size and shape, and at equal and regular distances apart. These moulds are formed bythe concentric rings F to the wheel, joined together by the cross and radial partitions G. H, ratchet-teeth, formed about and around the wheel A, which teeth correspond in position to that ofthe moulds,

.and are equal in number to the same. On the'teeth H to the wheel A, a lever-pawl, I, is arranged to act.A

This pawl I is hung to the lower end of a vertical arm, J, fastened or secured at its upper end in and toda lever-arm, K, hung to a fulorumat L, from which it extends in a horizontal plane through guide-posts M, and is at its outer end, N, connected through a ptman-IrOd, O, there hung to it, with the outer end of a crank-arm, P, of a horizontal shaft, Q, arranged to turn, and supported in suitable bearings of the uprights or posts R. This shaft'Q carries a balance-wheel, S, and a pulley, T, connected through an endless belt, U, with a pulley, V, on the driving-shaft W, to the machine.v This shaft W is arranged to turn in suitable bearings at or near 4the end, and is hung in a horizontal plane, extending across and over the mould-wheel A. n X, a presser, for pressing the peat or other material into the moulds of the wheel A, as such moulds in regular order and succession pass over the platform Z; and Y a pusher for pushing the peat or other blocks or bricks pressed in the mould from the saine. The presser X and pusher Y are both arranged by their staffs or rods'A2, to play up and down, or in a vert-ical plane, through guides B2 of a fixed rail, C2, and at their upper ends are hung toV the lever-arm K, so as to risc and fall therewith. D2, an'endless apron or belt, passingnnder the mouldwheel, andl in position to catch and receive the peat or brick-blocks as they are pushed or forced out of the mould-wheel. This endless apron passes around rollers or drums 2 at cach end, and through a connectingbelt, F2, receives motion from the driving-shaft. G2, the hopper to receive the peat or clayto be moulded, inI

which hopper is a wheel, H2, provided with teeth I2, corresponding to which is a toothed concave, J2, so that by the action of the two the peat or olaf,r will be thoroughly mixed or prepared for being moulded. This hopper Gr2 is over the mould-wheel, and in position for its peat or clay to enter the moulds.

The operation of the machine above described is as follows: The peat or clay is placed or fed into the hopper, wherein being duly prepared, it passes down through to the mould-wheel, into the mould thereof, just below and in position therefor, which wheel, through the upward and downward movement of the lerer-arm K, being carried by the pawl around with an intermittent rotary motion, at the same time the presser and pusher being carried up and down, and the endless carrying-apron moved to carry off the bricks or blocks thrown into the same by thevpusher. v

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent-1 The presser and pusher, with or without the lever-arm and earrying-pawl, when combined together and arranged to operate with reference to the mould-wheel A substantially as and for the purpose specified.

ELIPHALET HALL.

Witnesses:

WM, F. McNAMAnA, ALEX. F. ROBERTS.