Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1918 — Machine for “Setting" Bricks. [ARTICLE]

Machine for “Setting" Bricks.

Long-st Anding difficulty in obtaining labor for “setting” bricks during their manufacture has led to the development of a new machine for doing this work, which is understood to have considerable flexibility. Thia machine, which is lllustratecT in Popular Mechanics Magazine operates in conjunction with an overhead crane. The lifting mechanism is provided with a series of long fingers, each of which is shfped like an inverted “T.” These members are thrust between the bottoms of courses, when, for instance, a stack is to be transferred from a dryer car to a kiln. .?