ROBOT BRICKLAYERS.
A brick-laying machine, said to be capable oi laying twenty times as many bricks a day as a human bricklayer, has boon produced in America. Ten men operate it, and it can lay 100.000 bricks in an eight-hour day. The machine moves to and fro on a track, lifting bricks from a conveyor bolt and placing them in an arranging device which sets them in the mortar. Britain had a bricklaying robot, weighing sixty pounds as early as October, 1903. It ran on a light girder which could be raised as the work progressed, and required, declared its inventor, “no skilled labour for the working." Bricks were fed to it by hand. Twenty years later an- “electric bricklayer” was produced by a Glasgow firm. It could lay 10,000 bricks a day. The machine was used on a large housing scheme in Glasgow.
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Lake County Mail, Issue 2, 5 June 1947, Page 5
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144ROBOT BRICKLAYERS. Lake County Mail, Issue 2, 5 June 1947, Page 5
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