TILE-MAKING MACHINES.
Fig. i6o shows the Improved Centennial Machine, made by the Frey-Sheckler Co. One of many valuable features of this machine is its great pugging capacity. It is provided with two shafts, which revolve in opposite directions, one running at a speed five times faster than the other.
It is adapted for the production of Drain Tile, Fire Proofing, Terra-Cotta, Lumber, Building and Fire Brick.
This cut shows the Improved Centennial in connection with the Combination Table arranged for making Drain Tile and Hollow Blocks.
This machine will make drain tile as large as zo inch diameter.
The cut also shows a variety of work made on this machine. The Combination Table, which is shown in connection with the Improved Centennial Machine, is especially adapted for cutting Tile, Hollow Building Blocks, Fire Proofing, Terra Cotta Lumber, etc. The cutting wires can be easily shifted, so as to cut the various lengths required. Suitable straight rollers are furnished for brick and hollow blocks, while those of tile have depressions in them for one, two or three streams of tile.
All sizes of tile, up to and including 5 inches in diameter, are cut and handled on the rollers ; from 6 inches to 10 inches in diameter are cut and handled in copper-lined or wooden troughs, that are made to fit the table.
A suitable bed for the use of the Osman Patent Tile Carrier is also furnished with this Table, when desired, for tile larger than 7 inches in diameter. For large hollow blocks an addi tional cutting frame of suitable size can be attached in place of the small one. A screw adjustment raises and lowers the Table to any desired height.
The Machine and Table will occupy i6 feet by 4 feet 6 inches floor space. Weight of Machine and Table 4,225 pounds. Any of The Frey-Sheckler Cutting Tables can be used in con nection with the Improved Centennial Machine.
Fig. 161 represents the Brose Patent Tile Table for cutting and handling Tile from Jo inches to 20 inches diameter, usually 24 inches long, made by the Frey-Sheckler Co. The
mode of operating is as follows : After the large trough and guide, as shown by the cut, are thoroughly oiled the machine is started, when the tile runs through the guide into the trough, then the Table is released, so that it partakes of the motion of the tile, thereby securing a straight cut by means of the wires on the cutting frame. When cut, the table is tilted on the gudgeons, requiring very little effort, and the tile is thereby up ended on a board which has been previously placed on the roller-frame on the end of the trough. This brings the end of the tile on the board near to the floor, where a two-wheeled truck, with two long prongs (which reach under the board), is used to carry the tile away to its place. As the large tile, when two feet long and twenty-five inches on the outside, weigh nearly two hundred pounds, it will be seen that this mode and arrangement is needed to handle them. By a lever, the table is drawn back and held against the machine until ready to cut, the trough being held by a spring catch, which is released by the foot of the operator when the trough is tilted. Weight of Table, 160 pounds.
Fig. 162 represents the Leach Patent Table, also made by the Frey-Sheckler Co. This Table is intended for tile above four inches and as large as twelve inches in diameter. The troughs are self-adjusting, fitting the different sizes of round tile named. It will be noticed that all the receiving troughs, which are made of sheet metal, are hung together as a con tinuous chain so that the pipe as it emerges does not have to slide across the metal, but makes the trough follow along, fitting the next one to it in position for the tile. This Table works very nicely and will also dump the tile on a board if held in position at the end of the table. Weight, 170 pounds.