US1202252A - Machine for ornamenting brick. - Google Patents

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W. P. VARNEY.- MACHINE FOR ORNAMENTING BRICK.v APPLICATION mm urns. 191s.

Patented Oct. 24,1916;

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W. P. VARNEY. MACHINE FOR ORNAMENTING BRICK. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 9. 1915.

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w. P. VARNEY; MACHlNE FOR ORNAMENTING BRICK.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 9, 1915. I 1,202,252. Patented Oct. 24,1916.

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' 75 "Pf? 1? I \62 a6 642M sraas WILLIAM P. VARNEY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO HYDRAULIC PRESS BRICK COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OF MISSOURI.

MACHINE FOR'ORNAMEN TING BRICK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

V Patented Oct. 24, 1916.

Application filed January 9, 1915. Serial No. 1,329.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM P. VARNEY, a citizen of the United States, residmg at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State 1 of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Ornamenting Brick, of which the following is a specification. Y r

.. This invention relates to brick making machinery, and more particularly to that class of brick machinery adapted to produce rough texture brie The primary object of this invention is to provide a machine of the character set forth adapted to stand heavy work and produce fine quality brick. V v a V A further "object of this invention is to construct a machine ofthe character set for maintaining the depth of the "cut into the clay, insuring uniformity of design in the finished article.

A still further object of this invention is to provide a machine of-the character deedupon rollers 7 is an endless belt or apron scribed adapted to operate with the minimum of working parts and the minimum amount ofpower. f

' With these and other objects in view as will hereinafter appear this invention consists in the peculiar arrangement and combination of the various related elementshereinafter described and more particularly set forth in the appended claims.

Referring tothe drawings wherein similar, reference characters indicate similar parts wherever used, Figure 1 is a top plan view of the machine; Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof; Fig. 3 is a section on line 3+3 of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a detail section on line 4.--4 of Fig. 1 looking in thedirection of the arrow of one of the marking disks and its driving mechanism; Fig. 5 is a detail fragmentary plan view of one of the marking disks. v,

The numeral 6 designates the mouth of any suitable clay column forming machine used in brick making plants and constituting no portion of my invention. Support 8 adapted to receive the clay column as it issues from the mouth 6. The rollers 7 are carried by axles 9, mounted inbearings 1011 supported by angle irons 12-13. Extending from the anglev iron .12 are"up rlghts 14, 15 and 16, and from angle iron '13 extenduprights 17 and 18. Uprights 14,

1,6, 17 and 18support side members 19.'20

connected by cross pieces 2122 and 23. The angle iron 12 carries links 24+25 piv-z oted thereto by bolts 2627 and pivotally I connected to a longitudinal bar 28 by bolts 29+30. A similar construction comprising links 31 32 pivoted at 3334 and connect-' M ed at 3536 to a bar 37 is mounted 'on the.

angle iron 13. The bars 2837,are connected intermediate their endsby means of cross pieces 38-39. At the inner end of the machine the links 2532 are connected. by a shaft 40 carrying a roller 41 adapted to bear'upon the top of the clay columnpassing thereunder. Each of the cross pieces 3839 supports a screw-threaded stub shaft 4243 and rotatably mounted upon the ,respective cross pieces byfmeans of washers 46-47 each of which is locked in place byv superposed nuts 48 and 49. Bearings are.

provided, the one for the shaft 42 being on the side rail 20, and designated by the numeral 52, and a similar bearing 53 on the side rail 19. Above the bearings each shaft is provided with a bevel gear 5455 splined to the respective shafts by splines 5657 in such a manner as to permit the shafts to move vertically.

Below the supporting crosspiece each of I the shafts 4243 carriesa marking. disk which, as shown, comprises a disk faced with I r a sheet metal'6061 from which prongs or teeth 62 have been struck out in concentric series around the face thereof. The shafts 4243 pass through openings 38' and 39 in the cross members 38 and 39 respectively, the supporting washers 46-4'Z resting upon the edges of the said openings of eachv cross bar. The provision of a screw threaded shaft 42 or 43 with the lock nuts 4849 per-.

mits of adjustment of the shaft relative to" the distance above the clay stream, thus allowing for wear of theteeth 62 upon the disks 60.61.

A shaft 63 provided with a sprocket wheel 64 and; pulley 65 for suitable drive attach- ,A second shaft 72 carries a bevel gear 73 whichmeshes with the gear 54. This shaft is mounted in bearings 7 47 5 upon the cross bars 2223 and extends at an'angle across the machine body to the gear 55 of the shaft 43 where it is provided with a bevel gear 76meshing with the gear 55, thus causingthe first disk to rotate'in one direction and the other disk to rotate in another direction.

Mounted on the upright 15 is a shaft 77 having a plate 78 provided with teeth 79 similar to the teeth 62 of the plates 60-61.

A spring 80' forms a cushion for the plate 7 8 to which rotary motion is imparted by an outside source of power connected to the pulley 81 on the shaft 77.

A finishing roller 82 for the side of the,

column is pivotally mounted at 83 upon an angle iron 84 and is adapted to'be held" against the side of the clay column bymeans of a weight 85 attached to the iron 84 by a cord 86 traveling over a guide 87.

A finishing roller forthe top of the clay columnis located at the discharge end of the machine and comprises a roller 88 upon a shaft 89 carried by two L members '90.

placed in reverse position and pivotally mounted at 9293 upon the'side rails 19-20 in such a manner as to cause the roller to normally exert pressure downwardly by reason of its own weight, notches 94 being provided in the ends of the members 90 to support suitable weighting bars should it be necessary.

The operation of the device is as follows: The clay column extending from the column forming machine travels over the apron 8 and under the roller 41 to the rapidly revolving plate 78 which, by means of the teeth. 79, tears up and roughens the face of thecolumn forming a novel, distinctive and ornamental design upon the clay. The side of the column is finished by the roller 82. The top of the column is similarly roughened and ornamented by the teeth of the two platesGO, 61. Inequalities in the height of the clay stream cause the roller 41 to be raised or.lowered, causing a corresponding movement of the parallel bars 28 37,'thus raising or lowering the, cross members 38 -39 and the shafts 42' and 43 and the roughening disks carried thereby, thus keeping the depth of cut of the teeth atsubstantially the same, insuring uniformity of design. The longitudinal movement of the cross bars 38-39 in making either an up 'oridown movement due to the link bars 28- 37 'is'compensated for by the spaces 38 and 39 which allow the respective cross bars be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

Having thus described my invention What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1..In a machine for ornamenting brick,

the combination with means for conveying a clay column, of a substantially fiat rotary marking device located in position to contact a surface of the column, and means for rotating the marking device in a plane whose axis is substantially perpendicular to said surface of the clay column.

2. In a machine for ornamenting brick,

the combinationwith means for conveying a clay column, of a substantially fiatrotarymarking disk located in position to contact a surface of the column, and means for re tating the marking disk in a planea'whose axis is substantially perpendicular to saidsurface of the clay column.

3. In a machine for ornamentmg bricky the comb1nat1on with means for conveying a clay column, of a plurality of substan-*'- tially fiat rotarymarking devices located in position to contact a surface of'the column, 4

and means for rotating the marking-devices in a plane whose axis is substantially per-- pendicular to said surface of the clay column.

4. In a machine for ornamenting brick,

the combination with meansfor conveying a clay column, a substantially flat rotary marking disk provided with a plurality of projecting teeth on one face thereof, said disk being located in position for the teeth to contact with a surface of the column, and means for rotating the disk in a plane whose axis is substantially perpendicular to said surface of the clay column.

5. In a machine for ornamenting brick the combination with means for conveying a clay column, a marking device in posltion to contact with the surface of thecolumn,

and means controlled by the thickness of the column for moving said markingdevice toward and away from the column.

6. In a machine for ornamentingbrick the combination with means for conveying the clay column, a marking device located- Y in position to contact with the surface of' the column, a device'adapted to rest on thesurface of" the column, and connectionsbe tween the said device and said marker whereby the position of the device controls the position of the marker.

7. In a machine "for ornamenting brick, the combination with means for conveying a clay column, a markingdevice located in position to contact with the surface of the column, a roller contacting with the surface of the column and connection between the roller and the marking device whereby movement of the former will move the latter toward and away from the column.

8. A brick scratcher comprising a support for a clay bar a member disposed adjacent the clay bar, a suitable supporting framework for said member, a series of projections on said member, and means for imparting movement to said member to move said projections in paths concentric with each other across the face of the clay bar.

9. Apparatus of the character described,

comprising a guideway for themoving bar or column of clay, and rotary members over,- hanging the guideway from opposite sides and each having a plurality of depending scratching points or pins, substantially as described.

10. Apparatus of the character described, comprising a guideway for the moving bar or column of'clay, and rotary members overhanging the guideway from opposite sides and each having a plurality of depending scratching points or pins, together with a surfacing roller journaled transversely of the guideway beyond the rotary members, substantially as described. 1

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM P. VARNEY.

Witnesses:

HENRY E. STRINGER, WM. D. WILLCOXON.

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