BRICKMAKING BY MACHINERY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 667, 29 January 1875, Page 3

BRICKMAKING BY MACHINERY.

—o— Mr William Stubbs, of Rickerstote, near Wolverhampton, has now in operation a machine of his own invention, which ho has recently patented, for the manufacture of br’cks. This machine is worked by steam power. A brief description of the maoaiue may interest many of our readers. To an onlooker is presented a revolving horizontal table, on which arc fixed six dies for compressing the clay. On one side of the table stands a man who fills each die with clay, and on the other- side of the table is another mao who removes the clay after it has been compressed. Each die is fitted with a hinged lid or cover, and a sliding bottom, and as the table revolves the die passes under a fixed plate, which compresses the clay. The clay is delivered in a column down an incline from the pugmill, and is cut into blocks of the required size by means of wires by the man who fills the dies. The machine is capable of compressing 1,500 bricks an hour, or 12,000 in a day of eight working hours. By a multiplication of dies, the production would be considerably increased.

A curious quarrel arose recently between two actors at the Grecian Theatre, the question in dispute being whether one of them “ died” on the proper part of the stage. Some strong language was used, and this led to an assault and a visit to the Police Court, where the “star ” was bound over to keep the peace towards the “heavy ” man. A young man has been sent to prison for two months for an assault upon the foreman of the City Gas Light and Coke Co., whom he knocked into a trench among the gaspipos because ho was asked to desist from smoking for fear of an explosion. The London correspondent of the Belfast Nows Letter says that the convict Boupoll is now at liberty, having served the ful term to which he was sentenced—namely, fourteen years.