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US 4,008,034 AGranted
Brick making machine having stripping means
OwnerJoseph F. Kaneinventor
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Abstract
In an automatic water struck brick molding machine including a mold for molding wet clay into bricks, releasing the suction between the wet clay in the mold and the overlying slide board by pushing the slide board across the mold for a limited distance and then forcing the slide board upwardly from said mold and immediately thereafter, raising said mold and slide board vertically far enough to leave a group of wet bricks resting on an underlying pallet ready to go to the drying area.
Claims7
Apparatus for facilitating the removal of a mold from wet bricks therein, said apparatus comprising
- a pallet,
- a mold having a plurality of compartments open at top and bottom and resting on said pallet,
- said compartments adapted to be filled with wet clay forming wet bricks,
- a slide board resting on the top of said mold and covering all said compartments,
- a slide lifter overlying said slide board,
- means securing said slide board and slide lifter together,
- said slide lifter having a depending end plate at each end thereof, said plates spaced from the ends of said mold and at least partially overlapping the said mold ends,
- first cams on the ends of said mold,
- second cams on the depending end plates of said slide lifter shaped and positioned to cooperate with the said first cams on the ends of the said mold so that relative transverse movement of said slide board and slide lifter with respect to said mold will cause said first and second cams to function to achieve separation of said slide board from the top of said mold and from the upper surface of the wet bricks therein.
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