Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1893 — New Brick making Machine. [ARTICLE]

New Brick making Machine.

New York Sun. A new brick baking machine is tc be noted among the recent mechanical novelties. It is a simple contrivance, consisting of a table covered with iron brick molds, to which ar electric current is applied, the table being 8 by 14 feet, and holding 1,000 molds, joined together like pigeon hole. Each mold is the size of a brick which has been pressed but not baked, and each has a cover so fitted as to follow the brick as it shrinks. The bricks are taken from the presses and placed in the molds, the cover adjusted, and the current turned on. The iron sides of the mold form the “resistance,” and the brick are virtually inclosed by walls of fire. The brick having shrunk to the proper size, the sinking covers of the molds automatically turn off the current, the baking is done and the bricks are dumped.