Apparatus for manufacturing bricks with smooth side surfaces

A device for manufacturing bricks with smooth side surfaces, comprising a conveyor carrying a plurality of open top mould containers in a circulating path, one portion of said path being substantially horizontal, each of said mould containers having sidewalls fixed relative to the conveyor and a bottom movable relative to said sidewalls, a first container for holding releasing material, said first container positioned adjacent said conveyor at a location where the top of mould containers open upward, a means associated with said first container for applying said releasing material on only the inner surface of the bottom of each of said mould containers, a second container for holding clay positioned adjacent said conveyor downstream of said first container at a location where the top of mould containers open upward, means associated with said second container for dispensing clay out of said second container and into said mould containers, means adjacent said conveyor for pressing the clay into said mould containers, means adjacent said conveyor for trimming excess clay from said mould containers, means for placing a drying plate across the open top of said filled mould containers and a first means adjacent the conveyor where the mould containers open downward for displacing the bottom of each mould container relative to the sidewalls thereby ejecting a formed brick with smooth sides, wherein said releasing material applying means comprises a rotating roller which intermittently forms a slit relative to a wall of the first container so that releasing material is only dropped onto the bottom of said mould containers.